Learning disabled actors are  discovering their WW1 history in a new theatre production from Headway Arts Theatre. Hold Your Piece tells untold stories the lives of learning disabled people during The Great War 1914-1918. The learning disabled artists at Headway Arts and are using their training as researchers and devisers. Disabled actor Tim Longrigg who will… Continue reading Preview: Hold Your Piece @Queens Hall, Hexham

Sam Dickinson, singer songwriter from Newcastle will be putting on a special gig in April to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust. The performance will be at The Mining Institute on Saturday 21st April and it will also be celebrating Sam’s 30th Birthday. This is Sam’s 10th year singing in front of audiences, where at… Continue reading Preview: Sam Dickinson raising money for Teenage Cancer Trust

You say to me… Your brain is broken. I say to you, No- my brain is imperfectly perfect; an adult’s brain in training. Mortal Fools theatre company are presenting Brainstorm- a fast paced, dynamic and physical performance theatre show that is coming to Gateshead on the 11th April . Brainstorm looks into how young people’s… Continue reading Preview: Brainstom, Mortal Fools

Who remembers seeing Joe McElderry as the lead in Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ? No? Maybe like me you couldn’t grab a ticket, well fear not as our Joe is coming back to the North East for his own tour. The X Factor winner will be coming home back to South Shields to… Continue reading Preview: Joe is coming home

Image: Great Exhibition of the North opening event_image by EYELEVEL.jpg This is the moment all lovers of North East Culture have been waiting for, the cultural event across Newcastle and Gateshead that celebrates art, culture, design and innovation. Great North Exhibition is said to be an event by the North for the North. And there… Continue reading Preview: Great Exhibition of the North

Image: Maggie Bain in Man to Man. A Wales Millennium Centre production. Photo – Polly Thomas 024 Written by Manfred Karge and translated by Alexandra Wood, this modern German fairy tale tells the story of a woman called Ella Gericke, who lived with her husband Max until one day he died. Then the Nazis arrived… It is… Continue reading Preview: Man to Man, @ Northern Stage