Live Theatre, the Newcastle Quayside venue hosts a mini season throughout April. The first reading April 13, will be Nina Berry’s The Taxi Driver’s Daughter. A celebration of Julia Darling on the anniversary of her death, based on Darling’s novel. Live Theatre audiences voted for plays they would wish to return and Wet House by Paddy Campbell was… Continue reading Live Theatre’s reading schedule
Month: April 2023
A Manchester Girlhood revisited
Pascal Theatre Company are staging a revival of Julia Pascal’s play A Manchester Girlhood, based on the lives of three Manchester Jewish women and their Romanian immigrant parents. It opens at Blackpool Old Electric Theatre April 20, Manchester Jewish Museum April 23, followed by London dates at Burgh House May 17 and a run at JW3… Continue reading A Manchester Girlhood revisited
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
This lively musical, originally commissioned by Singapore Repertory Theatre, where it premièred in 2015, is based on a Norwegian fairytale collected by Hans Anderson. It is the tale of three hungry goats who have nothing to eat because there has been no rain and the grass in their fields has dried up. On the other… Continue reading The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Protest on Northern Stage
Protest is a new play from Hannah Lavery coming to Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne. It follows the lives of three young girls as they learn to use their voices and take a stand against injustices in their community. Aimed at young people aged 8 and up, and their grown-ups, the play is an… Continue reading Protest on Northern Stage
L’Incoronazione di Poppea
John Eliot Gardiner’s Monteverdi trilogy, adding Poppea to the earlier L’Orfeo and Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, both previously reviewed here, has been issued as a box set with a price around £32, offering a reduction against the cost of the three bought individually. That amounts to well over eight hours of music, all in… Continue reading L’Incoronazione di Poppea
West End transfer for RSC’s Hamnet
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s world première of Lolita Chakrabarti’s adaptation of the Maggie O’Farrell novel Hamnet which has sold out in Stratford is to transfer to the West End. The production will run for a 14-week season at the Garrick Theatre from Saturday 30 September until Saturday 6 January 2024. O’Farrell said, “it’s wonderful and welcome news.… Continue reading West End transfer for RSC’s Hamnet