The North East Magazine
From the inception of The Sage Gateshead, the country fan has been treated to a plethora of stars from the country music world. Names like Glen Campbell, Marty Stuart, Don Williams, Lyle Lovett, Gretchen Peters, Suzy Bogguss, Matraca Berg, Rosanne Cash, Raul Malo, Nanci Griffiths and a whole host more which also includes another country [...]
Starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette and Andy Garcia, 8 Million Ways To Die directed by Hal Ashby is now released for the first time on DVD. This was the last film directed by Hal Ashby famous for the classic films ”Harold and Maude”, ”Coming Home” and “Being There”. This movie however in not in their [...]
‘Comedy of Errors’ is one of Shakespeare’s early plays and as the title suggests it lives up to its name. It certainly is in Ed Hall’s direction of the play. It has often been reported that the play is hard to stage successfully due to its convoluted plot and artificial structure. It also suffers from [...]
Jokers Wild was a comedy panel game show hosted by the evergreen Barry Cryer which ran for a number of series between 1969 and 1974 on ITV. Based on the format of an American show of the same name, two teams of comedians compete to guess the punch line of a joke to score points. [...]
“By Jove I think They’ve Got It”. ‘Pygmalion’ was written by George Bernard Shaw and was the inspiration for the Audrey Hepburn hit film “My Fair Lady”. It tells the story of an English language professor taking an uneducated street trader and training her to become a lady. Were the elements that make a lady [...]
As the summer finally arrived, music fans were treated to an eclectic line up of singers and musicians when the second of Durham’s ‘Streets of’ festivals rolled into town. Streets of Folk featured performances by a broad range of regional and international acts, each bringing their own sound, style and talent to the event. Hundreds [...]