NORTHERN STAGE

Our audition workshop days are split into three sessions: acting, singing and dance. Acting and dance are group sessions, and there’s no need to prepare ...

After all those extra shifts, all Lorna wants is a night out on the town and time to reconnect with her daughter. All 16-year-old Mila ...

This Christmas join your favourite nursery rhyme characters as they climb up the water spout, twinkle like diamonds and jump over the moonThe lights are ...

The Sorcerers Apprentice returns to cast its magic this Christmas, putting a modern Northern Stage spin on a classic tale.Young Hatty Rabbit thought she was ...

No Script. No Score. No Kids!Newcastles infamous improv comedy troupe is back with their hilarious epic misadventure into the unknown.Taking inspiration from your suggestions, the ...

Its all kicking off in the woods! Two warring fairies are willing to destroy the world after a barney over a little lad, and four ...

The camaraderie of six soldiers is challenged when cocky Sprog arrives to replace a fallen friend hours before deployment. After Rutters mistakes in training that ...

Snuggle up in a magical den with comfy creatures Honk, Splash and TaWit TaWoo as they teach The Naughty Fox a very important lesson: its ...

Downs With LoveThey told me that I should have told them I have Downs.Why? What difference does that make?Downs With Love tells the story of ...

Run, run as fast as you canThis Halloween, the Gingerbread Man isALIIIIIVE!One dark and stormy night, by the light of a fiery oven, a baking ...

Sephy and Callum sit together on a beach. They are in love.It is forbidden.Sephy is a Cross and Callum is a Nought. Between Noughts and ...

Join Curious Arts for an evening of comedy, theatre and performance from established and emerging Queer Northern talent.Youre sure to leave Curious for more...

Co-directed and co-written by Umar Butt & Jameela KhanA new surreal, physical theatre show with lots of laughs, tears and musical surprisesand bouncy poo!Raheem finds ...

Aakash Odedra Company and Bagri Foundation invite you to enter the world of Samsara. Inspired by the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, Samsara ...

Quiet Rebels brings to the stage the stories of white working-class women who crossed the colour line to marry men of the Windrush generation. Women ...

Edinburgh Comedy award-winner Sofie Hagen presents Fat Jokes. A show bursting with big jokes and fat punchlines.Sofie returns to her craft of devastatingly brilliant joke-writing ...

Edinburgh Comedy award-winner Sofie Hagen presents Fat Jokes. A show bursting with big jokes and fat punchlines.Sofie returns to her craft of devastatingly brilliant joke-writing ...

Award-winning director Denzel Westley-Sanderson breathes fresh new life into Oscar Wildes sharpest and wittiest comedy: The Importance of Being Earnest.Wildes genius humour meets contemporary culture ...

Award-winning artist Scottee was born homeless into a single parent family. Growing up in the 90s, on a North London council estate, he was surrounded ...

A fresh and family-friendly retelling of Rapunzel by Carol Ann Duffy brought to you by leading dance theatre company balletLORENT.In this mighty production a red ...

Tash is a simple girl. Shes Black. Shes Queer. Shes a woman. But in the world of university and identity politics, suddenly shes anything but ...

The Spice Girls of improv return in their five-star, sell-out, totally improvised musical comedy, Notflix.Inspired by audience suggestions, the all-female cast improvise the musical version ...

Exclusively for adult audiences, Rapunzel After Dark is a bold retelling of a well-known fairytale by one of the worlds leading feminist poets, Carol Ann ...

Lavisha has 99 problems, but climate change aint one.Theres never enough time when youre having to choose between steak dinners and vegan food bank vouchers, ...

Disney villain. Octo-woman. Plus-size icon.From multi-award-winning Fat Rascal Theatre and fresh from complete sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and around the UK comes ...

Disney villain. Octo-woman. Plus-size icon.From multi-award-winning Fat Rascal Theatre and fresh from complete sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and around the UK comes ...

A funny, heart-warming, gin-soaked exploration of modern-day motherhood, full of original live music plus tips on how to fail miserably at meeting everybodys expectations.Featuring a ...

A charpai on my roof in Afghanistan.A dirty bunk in a hostel in Milan.A sleeping bag in a tent going camping with my college.Under a ...

This September, join star of iconic television programme Neighbours, Alan Fletcher, as he looks back on his 28 years as Ramsay Streets most famous doctor, ...

Two transgender performers say up yours to the gender binary, and invite you to their radical dance party!Under disco lights, over pulsing music, a queer ...

Alex BillinghamIts time to drink up all your milk dear.How do you be yourself when you dont know what that is?Let Live artist Alex Billingham ...

Tits to Tats (10 including Nite Life)Mo SvendsonA one-person show that explores the process and the obstacles to transitioning in general with a specific focus ...

How to be a HOT MESS (10, including Ambivalence)Joy CruickshankConfessing on their 20th birthday that they do not feel comfortable with womanhood or adulthood, thankfully ...

Join artists Jade Sweeting and Jenni Mac as they present representation itself in a performance and exhibition about their durational project Hip Reading.Taking on clichs, ...

Join artists Jade Sweeting and Jenni Mac as they present representation itself in a performance and exhibition about their durational project Hip Reading.Taking on clichs, ...

Two of the best stand-up comedians performing in the UK, plus support from hot emerging local talent and MC.Paul Sinha (ITV The Chases The Sinnerman; ...

Pradarshana is a plethora of vocal performances presented by the pupils and teachers of Raaga Sudha Music Academy.The performances are based in different genres of ...

is Julia and Rudi's first dance theatre meditation in which they guide the audience through a mystical journey. The outside world of the magical dance ...

Four women come together to perform a ritual of community and catharsis. Gathering up true stories of deaf womens experiences of surviving abuse, they form ...

Written by JoJo Kirtley with Alice CreeDirected by Corinne KilvingtonThis is a story of war and of military life, but not as youve seen it ...

In 2018, disabled actor, Melissa Johns' iCloud was hacked and explicit photos of her were released online. A young disabled woman with a history of ...

This is our book of spells.We put words in here, so that a change comes out.In here, you will find spells that protestThat rebel That ...

Aidy is a normal 8 year old girl or so she thinks! One day she discovers a family secret that changes everything. Aidy and her ...

Hadaway Harry is a true story about Harry Clasper, the man the Blaydon Races was written for, and the greatest sporting superstar the North East ...

The year is 2065; the people are stifled under an oppressive regime made up of all-powerful corporations. We follow a group of rebels who live ...

Lavisha has 99 problems, but climate change aint one.Lavisha is busy. School work and caring for Mum are her priorities. Period. Of course, she cares ...

Bold, boisterous and beautiful: BalletBoyz are back. Meet the six extraordinary young dancers who feature in this explosion of mesmeric dance, fused with the witty ...

Four seasons, four people, from four corners of the world collide. The strange city folds and unfolds around them, a story that opens up like ...

A rehearsed reading of a new play about how we live with the voices in our heads.I think the sounds are coming from meFrom my ...

THE ROAR-SOME CREW ARE BACK FOR A BRAND NEW ADVENTURE!Zog, super keen student turned air-ambulance, still lands with a crash-bang-thump. Together with his Flying Doctor ...

Radikal Words... A night of poetry and performance from Kate Fox, a regular on the BBC series The Verb and the Great Northern Slams Jeff ...

In a faraway land, a hard-working and lonely carpenter wishes for his puppet Pinocchio to come to life. By the magic of a wishing well ...

Griffin is a frustrated young man from the North East, with a troubled past and violent thoughts inside his head. He claims he has discovered ...

Griffin is a frustrated young man from the North East, with a troubled past and violent thoughts inside his head. He claims he has discovered ...

Are you listening?You Heard Me is a true story.You Heard Me is a celebration of a single moment of noise that freed Luca from an ...

Based on the Gold Award-winning podcast for Best Entertainment at the British Podcast Awards, Gyles Brandreth and Susie Dent bring their infectious love of words ...

Grab your magical marching mop and join us in this enchanting new production.Harrietta Rabbit was just a normal girl from a normal family (well, as ...

Grab your magical marching mop and join us in this enchanting new production.Harrietta Rabbit was just a normal girl from a normal family (well, as ...

Newcastles legendary improv comedy troupe is back to put the festive fun and loopy laughter into Christmas with their hilarious epic misadventure into the unknown. ...

From the creator of the hit show Black Is The Color Of My Voice comes a new story about the 20th Century African American experience. ...

Spanning time from the 1890s until now, GAZE is a play which follows two women on their journeys to discovering their identities. Alice Guy Blach, ...

Deep in the forest, Mammy, Daddy and Baby Bear are preparing for winter. Each day the Three Bears head off into the woods to collect ...

NORTHERN STAGE AT HOME: watch shows digitally from the comfort of your homeIts 1986: Thatchers Britain, jobs and hope are scarce but the party must ...

Its 1986: Thatchers Britain, jobs and hope are scarce but the party must go on - sound familiar?On the 35th anniversary of Jim Cartwrights joyous ...

Join Curious Arts and Northern Stage for an evening of comedy, theatre and performance from established and emerging Queer Northern talent. Youre sure to leave ...

gobscure presents provoked 2 madness by the brutality of wealthin a hostel after our worst sectioning a 'support worker' refused to help, saying 'what dya ...

a homeless hostel 'support worker' once said 'what dya need books for yr homeless?'. our revenge was thirteen years of reading, graduating from the open ...

Featuring songs from the original album alongside new material and stunning animation, Teesside folk trio The Younguns perform their theatrical version of The Ballad of ...

Featuring songs from the original album alongside new material and stunning animation, Teesside folk trio The Younguns perform a new, theatrical version of The Ballad ...

This Christmas, were bringing theatre to your living room as the creative team behind the likes of The Snow Queen & A Christmas Carol, and ...