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Inside Giovanni's Room
From:19-03-2025
To:20-03-2025
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Phoenix Dance Theatre presents Inside Giovanni’s Room, a captivating full-length dance production inspired by one of the most important novels of the 20th century, James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room.

Choreographed by Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director, Marcus Jarrell Willis, this new production set in 1950s Paris brings James Baldwin’s profound narrative to life through the powerful medium of dance.

In celebration of what would have been Baldwin’s centennial year, Marcus Jarrell Willis masterfully re-imagines the iconic novel, delving into themes of love, sexuality, guilt, and self-acceptance—subjects that continue to resonate deeply today.

Inside Giovanni’s Room is not just a dance production; it is a poignant exploration of identity and the human experience, capturing the essence of Baldwin’s timeless writing.

Performance Time: 7:30pm
Running time
1hr 30mins (including interval)

Recommended age
10+

From £12.00

Carousel: A Theatre Show by Ivo Graham
From:19-03-2025
To:19-03-2025
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“Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than a memory alone.”

Ivo Graham, who has watched this Mad Men clip approximately 100 times, steps away from the frivolity of his stand-up and invites you into his own carousel: around and around, backwards and forwards, to the places he aches to go again.

A searingly direct, exquisitely sound tracked story of a life: good luck at your next meeting.

Performance Time: 19:45

Running time
1hr (no interval)

Recommended age
14+ (contains strong language and adult content)

From £16.00

Murder She Didn't Write
From:12-04-2025
To:12-04-2025
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Don your deerstalker, grab your magnifying glass and get your ‘finger of suspicion’ at the ready because Edinburgh Fringe favourites, Degrees of Error, are bringing back their multiple sell-out show for your sleuthing pleasure.

They’ll create a classic murder mystery on-the-spot in this ingenious improvised comedy. You, the audience, become the author as the cast act out your very own Agatha Christie-inspired masterpiece live on stage. At each show this extraordinarily talented company use audience suggestions to create a unique, original and extremely comical murder mystery just for you. All you have to do… is solve it!

Ms Gold poisoned at a synchronised swimming gala? Dr Blue exploded by cannon during a hot air balloon race? Professor Violet crushed to death at a Love Island recoupling? You decide!

But will you guess whodunnit before the killer is revealed?

Performance Time: 7:30pm

Running time
2hrs (including interval)

Recommended age
12+ (contains strong language, sexual references and audience participation)

From £12.00

The Gruffalo
From:22-04-2025
To:25-04-2025
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Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in Tall Stories magical, musical adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s classic picture book, celebrating 25 years in 2024!

Searching for hazelnuts, Mouse meets the cunning Fox, the eccentric old Owl and the high-spirited Snake. Will the story of the terrifying Gruffalo save Mouse from ending up as dinner for these hungry woodland creatures? After all, there’s no such thing as a Gruffalo – is there?

Songs, laughs, and monstrous fun for children aged 3 and above and their grown-ups, in the much-loved show that’s toured Britain and the world!

Audio description by Caroline Burn

Performance Times: 10.30am / 1pm / 1.30pm / 4.30pm

Running time
55mins (no interval)

Recommended age
3+

From £13.00

Kim's Convenience
From:29-04-2025
To:03-05-2025
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Following hugely successful runs both in London and internationally, Kim’s Convenience is heading out on a UK tour!

There’s humour and heart in every aisle…

Now a global smash hit, this hilarious and heartwarming drama about a family-run Korean store that inspired the Netflix phenomenon, is written by Ins Choi, who calls the play his ‘love letter to his parents and to all first-generation immigrants who now call Canada their home.’

Performance Times: 6pm / 7.30pm

Running time
1hr 30mins (no interval)

Recommended age
14+ (contains racist themes and a replica firearm)

From £12.00

Joy
From:01-05-2025
To:01-05-2025
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Following the smash hit success of his Silver Jubilee show (“the best thing he’s done and that’s saying something” ????? Telegraph) Luke Wright returns with a new set poems that get to grips with the idea of JOY. Is it possible, as a 42-year-old, to feel pure unbridled happiness, and what does it look like?

The French novelist Henry de Montherlant said that “happiness writes white” but Wright’s not exactly starting with a blank page. With a mix of the comic and the wistful, JOY takes in consumerism, boozing, cancer scares, abseiling vicars, and the joy of language itself. We might have to go down to come up, but we’ll get there in the end. Come let a little joy into your life with a raconteur and wordsmith at the top of his game.

Supported by Colchester Arts Centre.

Performance Time: 8pm

Running time
1hr (no interval)

From £12.00

Kiell Smith-Bynoe & Friends
From:08-05-2025
To:08-05-2025
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“This magnetic performer’s great improv shows always prove a hit” – Evening Standard

Star of Taskmaster, Ghosts and The Great British Sewing Bee, Kiell Smith-Bynoe is heading out on tour with an all–star cast of comedians and some very special guests to turn stories from the audience into completely improvised comedy scenes.

Fresh from sold-out shows in Edinburgh, London and Brighton, Kool Story Bro is the unmissable improvised comedy show that spins unscripted sketches out of the audience’s weirdest and wildest anecdotes. Together with a surprise celebrity host, these “world-class improvisers” (Corr Blimey) are about to create a totally unique and utterly ridiculous show from scratch.

Kiell will be joined by members of Kool Story Bro’s rotating cast of improvisers, including Starstruck favourites Lola-Rose Maxwell and Nic Sampson, Afterlife and Austentatious’s Graham Dickson, Big Boys’ Robert Gilbert, Mock The Week’s Emily Lloyd-Saini, Shadow and Bone’s Anna Leong Brophy, Taskmaster’s Emma Sidi, and more.

Previous special guest hosts have included Lily Allen, Jamie Demetriou, Mo Gilligan, Charlotte Ritchie, Mathew Baynton, Guz Khan, and Munya Chawawa.

Performance Time: 19:30

Running time
2hrs 10mins (including interval)

Recommended age
16+ (strong language and adult themes)

From £28.00

Handbagged
From:13-05-2025
To:17-05-2025
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11 years of weekly, behind-closed-doors meetings, where the destiny of a nation is shaped.

Moira Buffini’s clever and charming political comedy unlocks the palace door, imagining the untold conversations of two of history’s most powerful women, Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II.

Ronald Reagan, Denis Thatcher and an ensemble of familiar faces add to the biting satire and sharp humour as the gloves come off and personalities clash.

25 years later, with both women now gone, their shadows still loom large, as this Theatre Nation Partnerships production, produced by Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, explores the legacy of this divisive premiership, leaving audiences to question what they truly know about those who decide our nation’s destiny.

Performance Times: 2pm / 6pm / 7.30pm

Running time
2 hrs 15 mins (including interval)

Recommended age
14+

From £12.00

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
From:28-05-2025
To:01-06-2025
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The critically acclaimed production of?The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show?created by Jonathan Rockefeller features a menagerie of 75 lovable puppets. The production faithfully adapts four stories by author/illustrator Eric Carle:?Brown Bear, Brown Bear, 10 Little Rubber Ducks, The Very Busy Spider and of course, the star of the show –?The Very Hungry Caterpillar.?The Very Hungry Caterpillar?has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1969 selling more than 48 million copies worldwide.?Brown Bear, Brown Bear?- now celebrating 50 years – has sold more than 18.2 million copies.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show?is a vibrant celebration of Eric Carle’s adored classics and the perfect introduction to live theatre.

Performance Times: 11am / 2pm

Running time
1 hour (no interval)

Recommended age
Suitable for all ages

From £14.00

Suzi Ruffell: The Juggle
From:16-10-2025
To:16-10-2025
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The Juggle is a brand-new tour from confessional multi-award winning comedian Suzi Ruffell.

It’s hard to be good all the time. A good mother, a good daughter, a good partner, a good friend, a good person. To be ambitious but not ruthless; a success but not a sell-out. A gentle parent but not a pushover. To be smashing life and make it look easy. The juggle. Suzi is exhausted and she hasn’t even started. This is a stand-up show and a support group!

Suzi has appeared on Live at the Apollo, The Jonathan Ross Show, The Last Leg and QI. Suzi co-hosts smash-hit podcasts Big Kick Energy with Maisie Adam and Like Minded Friends with Tom Allen, as well as having her own podcast, OUT with Suzi Ruffell. She even finds time to host on Virgin Radio. Suzi’s debut book, Am I Having Fun Now? Will be released in June 2025.

???? “A fabulously funny show from a class act” Evening Standard

Performance Time: 7:30pm

Running time
1hr 45mins (including interval)

Recommended age
14+ (contains strong language and adult content)

From £17.00

Beauty and the Beast
From:04-12-2025
To:03-01-2026
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A Northern Stage production

By Lucy Kirkwood

Devised by Katie Mitchell and Lucy Kirkwood

“I expect you have been told fairytales before. But you have never really heard a fairytale until you have heard it told by a real fairy.”

A stolen rose spells bad news for our heroine Belle and her unfortunate dad in this enchantingly wicked retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Families are invited to join our narrators – two mischievous fairies – a ‘Thoughtsnatcher machine’, and a helpful rabbit to experience this tale as old as time in new and touching ways for Christmas 2025. 

With music provided by the fleas and flies, lices and louses of the Insect Orchestra, you’ll find yourself in rural France with an eclectic cast of characters as the Prince hopes to lift a disgruntled fairy’s beastly spell.

Northern Stage’s adaptation of Beauty and the Beast puts a magical and hilarious twist on a much-loved story for new audiences and fans of the original tale. 

Performance Times: 10am / 11am / 1pm / 1.30pm / 3pm / 4pm / 6pm / 7pm

Running time
2hrs 30mins (approx., inc. interval)

Recommended age
5+

From £12.00

Transport

Newcastle Central Station & Haymarket Metro Station

Cafe

All day

Restaurant

All day

Bar

All day

Access Info

We have wheelchair accessible seats, and free carer's seats available. Please contact our box office at info@northernstage.co.uk or 0191 230 5151 to book.

Northern Stage is the largest producing theatre company in the North East of England, and we are very pleased that we are regarded as one of the top-twelve producing theatres in the UK.

Besides producing our own work, we are dedicated to presenting the best in local, national and international theatre. Since reopening in 2006 we have hosted the likes of Frantic Assembly, Kneehigh Theatre, Headlong Theatre, DV8 Physical Theatre, The Opera Group, the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Our Creative Residencies programme gives resources to local theatre-makers to develop and present their work in our theatre and frequently you'll find emerging and developing artists using our spaces and creating work throughout the venue. For more details on our artists programmes and our work with schools, universities, young people and communities visit Take Part. [Image credit: Northern Stage]

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