It’s the mother of all musicals, a record-breaking super trouper of a show seen by over 70 million people worldwide, in 50 countries and 16 different languages. MAMMA MIA!, the 1999 feelgood musical with a score of irresistible ABBA songs, […]
Taking on the iconic role of the titular crime-solver in Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts, when the production visits Newcastle Theatre Royal (Tue 3 – Sat 7 Feb 2026) Tom Chambers admits to being daunted at the prospect of following […]
As father and son comedy duo Danny Adams and Clive Webb take on a brand-new staging of Aladdin, they reflect on 20 years as stars of the panto at Newcastle Theatre Royal. Q1. This year’s panto is Aladdin – tell […]
The Newcastle Theatre Royal Big Give #ChristmasChallenge 2025 is now officially live, with supporters having just one week to help raise £5,000 to launch the theatre’s new Showtime Shuttle project and remove transport cost barriers for young people across the North East. […]
“…An ecstatic exercise in slapstick buffoonery and daft tomfoolery – I loved every minute…” Aladdin by Michael Harrison, Theatre Royal Newcastle By Melina Turner-Deeks The weather has dropped, the leaves are almost all gone and the C-word is on everyone’s lips. […]
Gerry & Sewell to transfer to London’s West End An Eastlake Productions and Newcastle Theatre Royal co-production. Whilst the January window is still several weeks away for the region’s top football clubs, one of the biggest transfers from Newcastle to […]
Whilst cast and crew are in final rehearsals ahead of this years’ pantomime, Aladdin, Newcastle Theatre Royal and Crossroads Pantomimes are delighted to reveal that a giant pantomime adventure – Jack and the Beanstalk – is sprouting into life and […]
Susanna is the fourth collaboration between Opera North and Phoenix Dance Theatre. Keen to find out why these two companies have chosen to tackle a lesser-known work by Handel, we spoke to director Olivia Fuchs and choreographer Marcus Jarrell Willis about […]
A brand-new trailer is released today for the first ever UK & Ireland tour of Aaron Sorkin’s riveting stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird which stops off at Newcastle Theatre Royal (Tue 21 – Sat 25 April 2026). The seminal American […]
With 22 million record sales and 500 million streams under their collective belts, Steps are the UK’s most successful mixed-gender band ever. Since coming to fame in 1997 with 5,6,7,8, Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Ian ‘H’ Watkins, Lee Latchford-Evans and […]
Michael Harrison in association with Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to present a new touring production of the global stage sensation, Miss Saigon and audiences in the North East will be the first to see the epic spectacular when it opens […]
Producers ROYO and Curve are delighted to announce Amber Davies will be playing Elle Woods in the brand-new production of the West End and Broadway smash-hit musical comedy LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL. The musical will stop off at Newcastle Theatre Royal (Tue 12 […]
Michael Harrison and David Ian are delighted to announce that their smash hit production of the musical Annie will stop off at Newcastle Theatre Royal on the show’s tour of the UK and Ireland (Tue 4 – Sat 8 Aug […]
The full casting has today been announced for the sensational feel-good musical MAMMA MIA! which stops off at Newcastle Theatre Royal on Wed 11 – Sat 28 Feb 2026 during a new UK tour. Jenn Griffin (Donna Sheridan), Ashleigh Jones […]
Newcastle Theatre Royal welcomed some very special guests ahead of War Horse being performed on stage next week (Wed 10 – Sat 20 September). Horses from Northumbria Police’s Mounted Section paid a visit to the theatre, creating a striking scene on Grey […]
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