Two-time Fringe First Award-winning, Besties and Bragi Winner and Total Theatre Award nominated writer and performer Emma Frankland brings her raucous and powerful show No Apologies on tour following a smash hit run at Edinburgh Fringe 2025 and international tour […]
A stellar cast will bring Alison Carr’s mesmerising fictionalised new play All At Sea to life this autumn. Phil Corbitt (Kinky Boots) and Sarah Belcher (Hamnet) play Colin and Deborah a couple with spiralling debt, sky-high mortgage and seemingly nowhere […]
There is a scorching line up of Edinburgh Fringe Preview shows at Live Theatre from Tuesday 28 July. This is a fantastic chance for Newcastle audiences to be the first to experience new work from some of the UK’s most […]
Live Theatre’s children’s fun and fantastic story and playwriting programme Live Tales has reached its 10th birthday! To mark this memorable milestone, the Quayside theatre is holding a party, Summery Tales in the beautiful Live Garden on Saturday 1 August […]
Unearthed Festival at Live Theatre from Tuesday 30 June to Saturday 11 July is a place for shows to take their first breath, for ideas to sharpen, and for artists to feel less alone in the making. A showcase of exciting up and coming talents […]
“…a work of genius…” Astell & Woolf by Shelagh Stephenson, Live Theatre Newcastle By Melina Turner-Deeks It was a treat to attend Astell and Woolf; a fiercely original play that imagines two historical feminists meeting in the afterlife. Mary Astell, […]
Rachel Stockdale, in association with ARC Stockton Arts Centre, presents Mother?, a funny, honest and energetic new play about motherhood inspired by more than 100 women in the North East. Directed by Tracy Gillman and written and performed by Rachel […]
Live Theatre has announced that Phillippa Wilson and Tessa Parr will star in absurdist comedy Astell & Woolf by North East legend Shelagh Stephenson. The razor-sharp two-hander about two feminists, one famous and one forgotten, meeting in the afterlife will […]
Following an award-winning two year run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Boiler Room Six: A Titanic Story will debut to Newcastle audiences at Live Theatre on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th April, as part of its national tour. Boiler Room Six […]
Live Theatre’s season of brand-new produced work features female centered world premieres, a ‘game changing’ landmark production and a first play about the Sycamore Gap felling. Digging into the region’s radical history, the season launches with Shelagh Stephenson’s absurdist comedy […]
Shuggy Boats, starring Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake, Fisherman’s Friends, 23 Walks), Natalie Ann Jamieson (Emmerdale, Vera), Alicya Eyo (Bad Girls, Emmerdale), Phillipa Wilson (Where The Heart Is) and Libby Davison (The Bill) runs from Friday 6 to Sunday 21 March 2026. The new comedy features screened performances […]
Lawnmowers Theatre Company launches its 40th Anniversary celebrations in 2026 with Billy & Teddy’s Amazing Adventure, a joyful new play inspired by the cult 80s classic Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, which comes to Live Theatre, Newcastle on Friday 13 […]
Live Theatre kicks off their Radical North East season with a surreal new comedy giving voice to Mary Astell, largely considered one of the English-speaking world’s first published feminists. Written by the prolific Shelagh Stephenson (Memory Of Water, Harriet Martineau […]
“…full of heart and humour with headstrong, powerful women at the centre…” Big Ange by Jamie Eastlake, Live Theatre Newcastle By Kay Wilson We needn’t worry about the future because Big Ange has it sorted. This play, about passion, community […]
A cracking cast has been announced for Live Theatre’s new festive tale, Where Do All The Kittiwakes Go At Christmas? Flying into the Quayside theatre from Tuesday 9 to Sunday 21 December. Bringing the feathered friends to life will be Newcastle-born performer Shannon McLean alongside […]
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