James Grieve and George Perrin, the new artistic directors of Paines Plough, London’s leadings new writing theatre, will be heading north as part of their first season at the helm bringing their new show Come to Where I’m From to Live Theatre on Saturday 19 June.
Haven't got a ticket for this year's World Cup? Then join retired footballer-cum-alcoholic-pundit-from Hell, Bob Doolally for his Comedy World Cup Countdown, as he brings his off the wall predictions for South Africa 2010 to Live Theatre.
Nine young actors from Live’s Youth Theatre are celebrating after helping to raise enough funds to perform Playing With My Heart, a story about football, friendship and the Angel of the North, at the 2010 Prague Fringe Festival in June.
It’s all kicking off at Live Theatre this week as a new play exploring the moral complexities of anti-social behaviour will be performed as a rehearsed reading on Thursday 6 May at 8pm. Featuing Trevor Fox (Billy Elliot: The Musical), Michael Hodgson (The Pitmen Painters), Laura Norton (Jump!) and Tracy Gillman (Me & Cilla).
The American artist Winslow Homer arrived in the North East fishing village of Cullercoats in 1881 planning to stay for two weeks. Shelagh Stephenson’s new play A Northern Odyssey, directed by award-winning director Max Roberts (The Pitmen Painters), explores what it was about the landscape and its people that kept him there for nearly two years.
Charlie Hardwick, who plays Val Pollard in Emmerdale and Trevor Fox (Billy Elliot The Musical) will be taking to the stage at Live Theatre to perform a rehearsed reading of Attachments by Julia Darling on Sunday 21 March at 7.30pm, in what will be the final event of the new writing festival Different Stages.
Budding writers and theatre enthusiasts are being invited to take part in a weekend of exciting events and workshops as part of Live Theatre’s new writing festival Different Stages.
Tony award-winning playwright Lee Hall (The Pitmen Painters and Billy Elliot) will be returning to his home town when he officially launches Live Theatre’s new writing festival Different Stages this week.
Live Theatre is delighted to announce that, due to popular demand, a new date has been added to this season’s fixtures for the stage comedy Beating Berlusconi!
Tynemouth-born playwright Shelagh Stephenson, who now lives in London, will be returning to the region when she visits Live Theatre for the rehearsed reading of her latest work A Northern Odyssey on Thursday 4 February.
The Pitmen Painters, written by Tony Award winner Lee Hall, Directed by Max Roberts, starring the acclaimed original cast will open on Broadway in September 2010 at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
January to April 2010
Looking for a dramatic start to 2010? Then why not head down to Live Theatre on Newcastle’s quayside this season where four invited theatre companies will be sharing tales of legends, liars and lovers as well as the true story of one football fans dream game.
Need cheering up? With the festivities over and winter officially here, we’re all looking for a reason to smile. Why not start the New Year with lashings of laughter at Live Theatre courtesy of some of the country’s rising comedy talent including Dublin funny-man David O’Doherty and The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek.
Are you looking for a unique gift or quirky stocking-filler to impress your friends and family with this Christmas? Then why not take advantage of the selection of jaw-aching and toe-tapping events lined up to take place at Live Theatre in January 2010.
Jump! Post-Show Discussion
Thursday 26 November, 9pm
If you’re looking for a relaxing and enjoyable alternative to late night Christmas shopping then why not visit Live Theatre and meet the director and the cast of Lisa McGee’s new play Jump!
Three good time girls will be stepping out in style in their killer heels for the explosive opening night of Live Theatre’s latest production, Jump! by Lisa McGee on Friday 20 November at 7.30pm.
Live Theatre is celebrating after successfully securing an investment of £923,000 (one of the most significant awards of its kind) from the Arts Council’s Sustain fund.
Jump!
To celebrate the count down to opening night of Live Theatre’s latest production Jump! writer Lisa McGee will be at Live Theatre to talk about her influences and experiences writing for stage and screen on Thursday 5 November at 8pm.
Five talented, emerging playwrights will hit Newcastle on Monday 26 October to begin a breathtaking two week race through the city in which they will be asked to explore, interrogate and soak up everything they find to create five short new plays.
Live Theatre is delighted to be hosting two very different new plays by two exciting and talented writers courtesy of London based British East Asian theatre company, Yellow Earth. A cast of five will perform two unique shows back to back for a weekend of east meets west.
JUICE, NewcastleGateshead’s festival for children and young people gets off to a theatrical start on Thursday October 22 with First Draft, six exciting new plays written by 10 year olds from Newcastle.
13.1 by Mike Kenny
Wednesday 16 to Thursday 24 September at Live Theatre
Specially commissioned as part of the BUPA Great North Run Cultural Programme
The cast of Live Theatre’s latest family production will be limbering up on Newcastle’s quayside as they squeeze in some last minute training before 13.1, a new play about the Great North Run by award-winning writer Mike Kenny, which opens on Wednesday 16 September.
Audiences are being encouraged to follow a series of pink footprints that have been left behind by Diane, played by Vicky Elliott and her sister Alice, played by Sonia Beinroth. The competitive duo will be warming up in preparation for run which they are attempting in order to raise money for charity in memory of their Mam.
Live Theatre is kicking off its new season of live entertainment with the popular writers’ event, Short Cuts on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 September at 8pm.
Laughter lovers are being invited to join award-winning comedian’s Daniel Kitson, Jon Richardson, John Gordillo and local prankster Steve Drayton as they step into the spotlight for a series of hilarious gigs, sponsored by Potts, the print company, at Newcastle’s Live Theatre this autumn.
The stories of wives, mothers and girlfriends of military personnel from the North East are soon to be shared with audiences across the UK when Live Theatre’s award-winning production Motherland embarks on a much anticipated UK tour.
Families looking for something different to do this summer need look no further than Live Theatre, on Newcastle’s quayside, where they are invited to enjoy a weekend of theatrical events as part of Summer Mix-Up, Live Theatre’s annual education and participation festival.
The second of Live Theatre’s new writing summer double-bills will take place this week with rehearsed readings of Paddy Campbell’s script Dial-A-Mate and Islanders by Dick Curran on Thursday 2 July at 8pm.
This week footballer John Beresford described the decisions made over the last 12 months by Newcastle United’s current owner Mike Ashley and Managing Director Derek Llambias as ideal material to create the ultimate guide on “How Not to Run a Football Club”.
To find out, visit Live Theatre on Newcastle’s quayside for four nights of jaw-aching comedy this summer.
After 16 seasons in top flight football Newcastle United fans are beginning to come to terms with life in the Championship. You Really Couldn’t Make It Up is a humorous and wry look at the tumultuous events of the last 10 months.
Audiences will have the chance to meet the stars and creative team behind Live Theatre’s latest smash hit show Looking For Buddy during a special post show event on Thursday 11 June.
Hosted by Live Theatre’s Artistic Director Max Roberts members of the public will be able to meet.
Watershed & Crush – New Writing Studio Sessions
Thursday 4 June, 8pm
Live Theatre will be celebrating the best in emerging writing talent at the first of its New Writing Studio Session summer double-bills with two rehearsed readings of Watershed and Crush on Thursday 4 June at 8pm.
Local environmental expert and public speaker Prof. Paul Younger will be sharing his views on the role traditional industries still have to play in creating a sustainable economic future for the region by utilising the natural resources that have, until now, been written off.
Live Theatre is delighted to be hosting the North East premiere of Hand-me-Down, an immersive, intimate and funny one-woman show.
Anyone looking for something funny and entertaining to do this weekend should visit Live Theatre on Newcastle’s quayside where they will able to spend the night laughing along to exciting new material from Live’s very own batch of top young comedy talent.
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Presented by The Octagon Theatre, Bolton & Live Theatre
Tim Healy will be returning to Newcastle’s Live Theatre following a 14 year absence to star in a new play Looking For Buddy, written by one of the country’s most entertaining playwrights Jarrow born Alan Plater.
The Shakespearean tale of young love is being brought to Live Theatre with a lively twist in the new musical production, Up There In Lights.
Audiences are in for a theatrical treat when some of the region’s finest young actors take to the stage at Live Theatre for a rehearsed reading of Jump! on Thursday 2 April.
Live Theatre is delighted to be hosting two unique productions from Yorkshire based touring companies Mind The Gap and The Paper Birds this spring.
Live Theatre and the Theatre Royal Newcastle are delighted to announce that Lee Hall’s critically-acclaimed play, The Pitmen Painters, will be returning to Newcastle for a five day run at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday 29 September as part of a nine week UK tour.
“Say NO to ID Cards”
In today’s society, our wallets and purses bulge with different kinds of cards that play various significant roles in our lives.
Tyneside's very own cult comedian Gavin Webster returns to Live Theatre for three nights only from Thurs 26 – Sat 28th March with a high octane, hard hitting, brand new 90 minute show at his spiritual home on Newcastle's quayside.
Audiences are invited to celebrate the life and work of one of the region's most respected writers, Julia Darling, at Live Theatre this March.
Toon Army fans the world over have been following the recent media circus surrounding Newcastle United in disbelief as their team experiences one of its most turbulent seasons to date.
Live Theatre, Northern Stage and Theatre Royal Newcastle have officially unveiled details of the Free Theatre Initiative that will provide free theatre tickets to young people at all three venues.
Anyone interested in chasing away the winter blues with an evening of rib-tickling entertainment should head straight to Live Theatre, on Newcastle’s quayside, and laugh along to some of the best in stand-up comedy.
Live Theatre is delighted to announce that The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall, winner of the 2008 Evening Standard Award for ‘Best Play’, will be taking to the road for a 9-week UK tour in autumn 2009.
Three of Newcastle upon Tyne’s principal Theatres; the Theatre Royal, Northern Stage and Live Theatre, have been offered funding as a part of Arts Council England’s national scheme, the Free Theatre Initiative, that will provide free theatre tickets to young people.
Green Support Services company eaga has joined forces with Newcastle’s Live Theatre to work with young people to create short plays inspired by the theme of climate change and environmental issues.
Lee Hall’s play The Pitmen Painters, first performed at Newcastle’s Live Theatre, has been crowned winner in the ‘Best Play’ category at the Evening Standard Awards, this year presented by actor Richard Wilson.
The Pitmen Painters is to be translated into German for a performance at Vienna's Volkstheater in April 2009.
A campaign calling for a public inquiry into the deaths of Privates Sean Benton, Cheryl James, Geoff Gray and James Collinson at Deepcut army barracks has notched up over 1000 signatures since its launch on 17 September 2008.
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