Reviews Blackadder Goes Forth – REVIEW 31 Oct 201816 Jun 2021 People's Theatre, Newcastle There can’t be many of us who aren’t familiar with this iconic BBC series, and this week The People’s give a pretty good rendition of four of…
Reviews Sense and Sensibility – REVIEW 26 Oct 201816 Jun 2021 Chapterhouse Theatre Company's latest production is this classic Jane Austen novel, adapted for the stage by resident writer Laura Turner. This charming adaptation is a testament to her love of…
Reviews Natural Causes – REVIEW 26 Oct 201816 Jun 2021 This month's offering from the Royalty Theatre is a dark comedy by Eric Chappell, who most people will know as the writer of sit-coms such as Rising Damp, Only When…
Reviews The Blue Electric Wind – 4 stars 21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021 People's Theatre, Newcastle. The Blue Electric Wind is a new piece of writing, by ex-Royal Court Young Writer Brad Birch, commissioned by the National Theatre’s literary department specifically for young…
Reviews Breaking the Code – 5 stars 21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021 People's Theatre, Newcastle. Hugh Whitemore’s play about the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing - key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II…
Reviews Go Back For Murder – 3 stars 21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021 People's Theatre, Newcastle. After having watched the 1980 film of ‘The Mirror Crack’d’ just the other night, I was very much in the mood for more Agatha Christie and was…
Reviews Hi-de-Hi! – 3 stars 21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021 People's Theatre, Newcastle. Stage adaptations of popular classic television comedies are ten a penny these days - understandably so in the current climate of aiming to get as many bums…
Reviews Richard III – 3 stars 21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021 People's Theatre, Newcastle. Taking on a play such as this is always ambitious, but the People’s have the talent and the resources and here they pull it off pretty well.…
Reviews Dance Across The Tyne – 4 stars 21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021 Customs House, South Shields. After the huge success of last year’s award-winning Dance To Your Daddy, writer-composer team David Cooke and Grahame Wright had a lot to live up to…
Reviews The Fifteen Streets – 3 stars 21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021 People's Theatre, Newcastle. Published in 1952, The Fifteen Streets was Catherine Cookson’s second book. The story came to her very quickly and completely: “Within an hour I had the whole…
Reviews And A Nightingale Sang – 5 stars 21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018 Less in MORE theatre company, Middlesbrough Theatre. Glasgow-born playwright CP Taylor had a long-standing relationship with Live Theatre in Newcastle, with many of his plays first performed there. ‘And A…
Reviews Yes Prime Minister – 3 stars 21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018 People's Theatre, Newcastle. The original BBC series’ ‘Yes, Minister’ and ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ are widely considered as genuine comedy classics, and so a brand new up-to-date stage version was greatly…
Reviews Much Ado About Nothing – 5 stars 21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018 People's Theatre, Newcastle. In his programme notes, director Tony Childs writes: “It's easy to see how Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's best loved comedies”, and The People's…
Reviews The Next Train To Depart – 4 stars 21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018 Live Theatre, Newcastle. John Challis's poetic play about a chance meeting on a railway concourse between a call centre worker and a would-be poet is the first of three Bitesize…
Reviews Charley’s Aunt – 3 stars 21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018 People's Theatre, Newcastle. This classic 1892 farce by Brandon Thomas broke all records when it was first produced, running in London for four years (1,466 performances) and making a star…
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