The Northern Echo | Reviews

Omid Djalili - Middlesbrough Town Hall

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:11:29 +0000

WOULDN'T it be great if, rather than being religious radicals hell-bent on destroying the West, as the US would have us believe, Iranians were, in fact, all like Omid Djalili.

Review: Strictly Come Dancing, The Live Tour 2012, Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:18:21 +0000

FAKE tans, plunging necklines and sequins galore, the costumes dazzled on the opening night of Strictly Come Dancing – The Live Tour 2012 in Newcastle...

Theatre Review: Fair And Tender, Jackass Youth Theatre, Bishop Auckland Town Hall

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:27:35 +0000

CHILLING and deep but that Death fellow is a funny guy – my summations of this performance.

Theatre Review: (The Reduced) School for Scandal, St Mary’s Parish Hall, Barnard Castle

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:16 +0000

THE Castle Players are out and about touring their winter production of (The Reduced) School for Scandal in a show that’s a visual banquet of colour with the most sumptuous costumes and no cluttering props, save a few gold chairs.

Theatre Review: Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers, Salturn Community Theatre

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:59:26 +0000

WHAT a wonderful experience was my first and hopefully soon-to-be-repeated visit to Saltburn’s old Community theatre to see West Coast act Zoe Muth and her four-piece band.

Theatre Review: Donna Disco, Newcastle Live Theatre

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:28:06 +0000

DONNA is a 14-year-old, clumsy, bespectacled fat lass. She’s the victim of bullying by her school mates and her mum. Even her beloved nana, who makes great teas, isn’t really very helpful.

Theatre Review: Dreamboats and Petticoats, Sunderland Empire

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:21:03 +0000

THIS production is set in 1961, when music was having its own revolution and was becoming a defining part of a whole new way of life.

Mark Thomas: Walking The Wall, The Stand, Newcastle

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:05:55 +0000

GIVEN the title, you’d be forgiven for thinking Mark Thomas was talking about walking along Hadrian’s Wall. As beautiful as that historical monument is, Thomas is an avowed political activist comedian who relishes campaigning against injustice and the wall in question is the 750km, illegal Israeli Separation Barrier.

Review: Aladdin, York Grand Opera House

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:55:48 +0000

THE annual seasonal show at this venue never pretends to be anything other than a straightforward commercial pantomime aimed at younger audiences.

Dick Whittington, The Journal Tyne Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:37:31 +0000

LET’S chuck Panto Suspension of Disbelief Dust over the fact that it seems to be London on Tyne and also that there seems to be some Alpine mountains on the “London” scene-cloths.