The North East Magazine
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 [...]
Just in case you forget…that today we relaunch The American Connection Music Show on its own stand alone page. All you have to do now to go straight to the show is log on to www.euvue.co.uk as normal and when the page opens you’ll see an extra added button that says American Connection (it’s been [...]
Directed and Written by The Soska Sisters and starring Katherine Isabelle., ‘American Mary’ comes to DVD courtesy of Universal pictures. Set in contempory Seattle a penniless medical student is on the point of having to abandon her dream and ambition to be a surgeon when a bizarre offer comes her way. Can she carry [...]
Ever heard of a mini working arcade dock for the Iphone or Ipad, called Arcadie? If not ….at this time of year I may have found a great Christmas stocking filler for you as we approach the festive season. I think it could be the ideal technological gadget that will amuse and entertain for hours [...]
‘Dirty Dusting’ written by Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood plays from Thursday night (15th) until Saturday 17th this week. Three ladies of uncertain age are presented with unwelcome and untimely P45′s. Faced with redundancy and an uncertain financial future they are inspired by the receipt of a wrong telephone number to set up a telephone [...]
Until the 1968 Vietnam“TET” offensive America won every battle that it took upon itself to engage in. Thereafter it is questionable whether it has triumphed in any War. TV pictures of the last helicopters leaving Saigon’s American embassy roof told us in images that the ascent of the Imperial USA Empire was on the wane. [...]
If you have had the pleasure of experiencing the Wine, Women and Song shows with Gretchen Peters, Suzy Bogguss and Matraca Berg, then you may relate to the fact that Matraca is the ‘quiet ‘one. She’ll also be the first to admit that before she comes on stage for a performance she gets ‘butterflies’. To [...]
Belfast born and London based this is jazz singer Orla Murphy’s second album and what an impressive performance and production it is. All of the songs on this fine album are by Stevie Wonder except Ms Murphy’s self penned “Timeless”. The music on this CD is best described as a handsome mixture of high-end jazz [...]