The North East Magazine
‘Bombshells’ written by Joanna Murray-Smith plays The People’s Theatre from tomorrow May 21st through to Saturday 25th May with performances starting at 7.30pm. Bombshells is a series of 5 monologues written by Australian writer Joanna Murray-Smith which premiered to great acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival and won pundits in The West End last year. [...]
Legendary American singer songwriter Emmylou Harris is always welcome to these shores and in particular to our very own The Sage Gateshead. Emmylou who has worked with Bob Dylan (the Desire album) and Gram Parsons on the magnificent “Love Hurts” has in recent years become a songwriter and song interpreter of great acclaim with Daniel [...]
Written and directed by Andy Hamilton and starring Neil Pearson, ‘Trevors World Of Sport’ is the first time release of this BBC television sitcom that was broadcast originally in 2003 . Set in a Sports Industry PR Company Pearson plays as duck out of water decent man in a mindboggling corrupt business. Diva like stars from [...]
Canadian Book Of Beer by Steve Cameron is one of the latest offerings to come from the Blue Bike Books publishing stables. Beer is a universal beverage with as many variations as there are recipes that magically merge water, hops and yeast. Charles Dickens no slouch when it came to alcohol refreshment would at the [...]
Produced and directed by Jim Brown this time Time Life DVD entitled ‘American Troubadour” is available at all good CD/DVD stores. “American Pie”, “Vincent”, “And I Love You So” are three songs that will live forever. Their author and singular performer Don McLean the American singer songwriter is the subject of this slow burning but [...]
Gateshead International Festival of Theatre 2013 takes place at various locations from Thursday (May 2nd) through to Sunday 5th May. The GIFT initative was established to provide a platform for work not normally featured in the region and for new theatre makers in the North East. Now in it’s third year the festival features [...]
Roots, Shoots and Leaves (Cooking With Vegetables) by Bernadette Le Roux is a new book from Sunbird Publishers. Vegetables are the secret friend of great recipes and fine dining. In all their diversity, taste, colour and variations within a type they add to the joy of life. In this classy publication by author Bernadette Le [...]
Sue Moffitt is a highly regarded and in demand North East artist whose lovely dairy cow “portraits” have become iconic works of art here in the North East. Meet one of Sue’s bovine friends as realized by her in this charming painting. Over the years Sue a Northumbrian-born dairy-farmers daughter has been featured on [...]