The Durham Fringe Festival returns for five days this July with a programme that’ll knock your ruddy socks off. Last time I checked, the Durham Fringe website had 112 events listed for this year’s festival. 112! (One hundred and twelve!) And talk about…

Well, not quite thousands, but quite a few in “the best musical this century”: The Book of Mormon’. See it at The Theatre Royal this July and August. It was The New York Times that deemed ‘The Book of Mormon’ the best musical of this century, and such …

The Newcastle Fringe Festival returns this July and August with 110 performances scheduled right across the city. I’ll say that again: 110. Wow! It’s bigger, it’s bolder and it’s even more bountiful with its delights. It’s the Newcastle Fringe Festival…

The incredible ‘Songs of the Bulbul’ is coming to the Theatre Royal on Monday 14 July. It’s part of GemArts’ wonderful Masala Festival. Nightingales, or “Bulbuls”, hold a special place in Persian culture, with their song representing a spiritual seeker…

Animal Planet, Blue Planet, etc, are all banging shows – I think we can all agree with that – but this July was made for Queer Planet. As raucous as a pack of gibbons but not nearly as hairy, Bi Curious George is an award-winning drag king who has repeat…

Matthew Bourne’s award-laden modern classic ‘The Midnight Bell’ is coming to Newcastle for the first time this July. Wows at the ready…! Critics have been united in their praise for ‘The Midnight Bell’, the Guardian calling it “up there with his best”,…

The musical ‘Hamilton’ is probably the biggest thing to happen to theatre this century and you see just why when it plays Sunderland Empire this June and July. If someone had of told you, ooh around ten years ago, that the biggest box-office success in…

Celebrate trans theatre in style with a free event that is taking place over three days at Live Theatre in Newcastle this June. ‘Trans Performance Now’ is the result of two years of groundbreaking research done at Northumbria University in regards to tra…

Joe Orton’s uproarious farce ‘Loot’ is coming to City Theatre Durham this June and July. Joe Orton was on a real roll when he premiered ‘Loot’ in 1965. It was his third major production and followed the brilliant ‘Entertaining Mr Sloane’. ‘Loot’ subseq…