After a 5-month pandemic postponement, Ellie Goulding’s Brightest Blue tour finally arrived in Newcastle on the 9th of October, and it was well worth the wait. The O2 Academy was practically vibrating with the atmosphere of a couple thousand concert goers…

The debut play of up and coming actor, rapper and singer, Kema Sikazwe, only has one actor – Kema himself. There is only one set, mesmerising as it is: a dark space with strobe lights and two steps. Yet so many characters are brought to life, and we are t…

Tyne Rising – a specially commissioned outdoor theatre performance for the award winning Newcastle Puppetry Festival 2021 – took place at the City Stadium in Heaton and, fair to say, it was a huge hit among the sold out audience.Directed by Andrew Kim, wh…

If you know your “Twelfth Night” you’ll remember the familiar romantic set-up of a ship-wrecked girl dressed as a boy who falls in love with a duke while accidentally winning the heart of lady who’s mourning her own dead brother but ends up with the first…