Live Theatre is back with exciting new programme, Live Wired, which will see new work created and produced for online viewing. The first offering in the Live Wired series will be 10 Minutes to…Call Ho…
Film Review: Tenet
Genre: Action/Thriller Tenet is the latest blockbuster from renowned director, screenwriter and audience-confuser, Christopher Nolan. Without spoilers and obliterating my word count, the plot follows…
Event: Get Involved with Monster Trail, Sunderland’s Fundraising Effort
North East residents have a chance to play real-life monster hunters this Halloween thanks to a huge fundraising effort. Following the success of last year’s Lights Out festival, Sunderland BID is cur…
Event: Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival
As is de rigour these days, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival are moving swiftly online. The UK’s Festival for new cinema and artists’ moving image is a mix of film, short film, essays and other wo…
Film Review: ‘The Search for Life in Space’
Genre: Science and Nature Documentaries Steve Amezdroz’s ‘Search for Life in Space’ doesn’t do an awful lot of searching for a documentary centred on the exploration of life in space. Stunning n…
Film Review: ‘Ghosts of Sugar Land’ (2019)
Genre: Documentary/Short ‘Ghosts of Sugar Land’ is a 20-minute documentary directed by Bassam Tariq following a group of Muslim Americans in Texas as they recount the shock radicalisation of their fri…
Art: Women in Sunderland Come Together through Arts and Crafts
Community is integral in helping and uniting many people, and the sense of community is especially prominent and meaningful in the current context of the pandemic. After many months of isolation and l…
Comedy Review: Jimmy Carr at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, Newcastle – 31/08/2020
Now, this might not be your average long weekend in August, but these are certainly different times that we are living in. Jimmy Carr remarks: “Is this the kind of thing you had in mind? Someone barki…
Stage: Darlington Hippodrome’s Festive Pantomime Moved to 2021
You shall go to the ball…but not until 2021, as Darlington Hippodrome, along with producers Qdos Entertainment, have taken the decision to move the 2020/2021 pantomime back a year due to COVID-1…
Stage: Northern Stage Postpones Autumn Productions – but Christmas isn’t Cancelled
Following the latest government advice, which is ever-changing and ever more difficult to follow, Northern Stage has announced that it will postpone its autumn season productions of Red Ellen, The Inv…