2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (624+ words) When we spoke to North East playwright Alison Carr last week ahead of the premiere of her new play All At Sea, she mentioned there was some interesting news on the way. She wasn’t kidding. The writer has been awarded…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (350+ words) Newcastle artist Kema Kay is to create a new theatre work and help develop opportunities for Black creatives in the North East after securing more than £237,000 from Arts Council England. The writer, rapper, actor and performer is at the centre…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (628+ words) It’s never like this when I take the Ford Focus in for its irregular service or to get the dicky electrics checked. Admirable though the local garage is in its own way, there’s no sultry allure about the place… not…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1374+ words) In the uppermost room of a very old building in Newcastle, the 17th Century Alderman Fenwick’s House on Pilgrim Street, exciting plans are afoot that could shift the region’s theatrical profile. They’ve been afoot for some time but not here because…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (403+ words) One of the North East’s best-loved folk songs has been given a new interpretation in a permanent audio installation at The Glasshouse, in Gateshead. The specially commissioned work takes The Water of Tyne, the beloved traditional song telling of two…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (378+ words) If you’d asked me what would be the next popular film turned into a stage play, I’d have gotten a long way down my list before I said The Silence of the Lambs. Shows what I know, eh, because this…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (744+ words) The dynamic newcomers of Ensemble ’84, based in Horden, County Durham, have turned to a working class classic for their next production at The Playhouse, their church-turned-theatre. They describe the book, which was first published posthumously in 1914, as “a story about…...

4+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1438+ words) Picture (it shouldn’t be hard) a muggy August day, the kind when most people, considering their wardrobe options, might have been inclined to go for shorts and tee-shirt, leaving the cow suit for another occasion. But Mick Potts is not…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (302+ words) Aspiring comedy writers from across the North East are being invited to put pen to paper as Sunday for Sammy revives its Sketch for Sammy competition in search of the region’s next sitcom talent. Open to writers of all experience…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (332+ words) Three writers have been chosen to be part of the Tees Valley development programme, one element of a £93,000 writing programme New Writing North is delivering on behalf of the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority. Emma Conally-Barklem, Irie McGurrin and…...