Phantom a thrilling success
STAGING a show such as The Phantom of the Opera is risky. So popular is the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic that audiences have particular – and high – expectations of how it will look, sound and feel.
View ArticleBrave Simon is out to entertain Durham with humourous tales of a...
IS IT easy being seen as a hero, and how does Simon Weston, named the nation’s most heroic figure in a poll last year, cope with this pressure when his first stage tour brings him to Durham tomorrow...
View ArticleA Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Handlebards, Crook Hall and Gardens, Durham
DIRECTORS James Farrell and Emma Sampson begin their programme notes for The Handlebards’ summer tour thus: “When four cyclists decide to undertake a 1500 mile ride across the UK, we tend to think...
View ArticleReflective show explores Tunnard's legacy
A MAJOR exhibition exploring the work of Modernist designer and painter John Tunnard has opened to the public.
View ArticleMeet top authors at Durham Book Festival
THIS year's Durham Book Festival brings the Frozen North to the city with a life-size polar bear set to entertain families, while book festival organisers distribute free copies of Northern Lights by...
View ArticleRikki's charity single is just what the doctor ordered
AN NHS accountant was so moved by the demise of a long-standing hospitals’ fundraising group he decided to record a charity single for the cause.
View ArticleArtist returns to his roots for latest exhibition which proves chivalry isn't...
A NORTH-East-born artist is about to stage his first exhibition in his home region.
View ArticleMacAulay and Spikey heading to Gala
COMIC Fred MacAulay will be in Durham next month (September).
View ArticleCan you solve theatre's most famous whodunit?
A CLASSIC whodunit is coming to Durham’s Gala Theatre this week (September 14-19).
View ArticleShow's still going on - and it's new
He may be synonymous with 1970s nostalgia, but Leo Sayer still feels like a production machine, as Andy Welch finds out.
View ArticleFilming starts on historic epic about serial killer Mary Ann Cotton starring...
FILMING has started in the region on a new drama telling the life story of one of the North’s most notorious female serial killers.
View ArticleDurham poet on literary shortlist
A DURHAM author and poet has been shortlisted for a short story prize.
View ArticleTears at the terminal, captured in North-East photographer's latest exhibition
EMOTIONS witnessed among people awaiting and seeing off loved ones at airport terminals is captured in a photographic exhibition.
View ArticleTheatre festival is clear for Take Off
SHAKESPEARE for youngsters and a mystical retelling of Snow White will be among the highlights of a children’s theatre festival.
View ArticleReview: Samling Academy Concert 2015, Sage Gateshead
FOLLOWING intensive training over two weekends from some of the world’s most experienced classical artists (including at Durham University) 25 young people selected for the latest Samling Academy...
View ArticleDurham Singers to present the wonders of Haydn's The Creation at Durham...
THE COMPOSER Joseph Hayden was inspired to write some of the music to his oratorio The Creation by what he saw through the astronomer William Herschel’s revolutionary telescope in 1792, so the story...
View ArticleGala Big Band to play Durham Town Hall
A BIG BAND will perform in its home town later this month. The Gala Big Band will give a concert in Durham Town Hall from 7pm on Sunday, November 29. The group was formed in September 2014 to give...
View ArticleCulture minister Ed Vaizey impressed by North-East's vision, say backers
A VISION for the culture in the North-East over the next 15 years has impressed a Government minister, supporters have claimed.
View ArticleCountdown to Christmas begins at Durham Cathedral
THE COUNTDOWN to Christmas has begun at Durham Cathedral.
View ArticleReview: Haydn's The Creation, The Durham Singers and Ensemble, Durham Cathedral
WHEN The Durham Singers and Ensemble performed Haydn’s masterpiece The Creation at Durham Cathedral it was not only the culmination of months of rehearsals, but also represented the fruits of a...
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