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Hobbit stage adaptation comes to Darlington

KAREN MCLAUCHLAN has this week's Tyneside theatre round-up

Music shows at Hartlepool's Town Hall theatre

RELIVE the excitement of a night at Liverpool’s Cavern Club in the 1960s tonight.

Lots to learn for Disney fairytale princesses

ENTERTAINMENT Editor GORDON BARR goes to the ball to chat to Cinderella before she heads for two days of shows in Newcastle

Interview: Actor Graham Seed

BARBARA HODGSON hears actor Graham Seed is swapping country fields for trenches

David Troughton enjoying life on the road

POPULAR actor David Troughton is back in the region this week, playing opposite Alison Steadman in Alan Bennet’s Enjoy at the Theatre Royal.

Theatre Reviews & Previews

Review: Oh What a Lovely War, Northern Stage, Newcastle

STUNNING, one audience member remarked as we left the theatre. Never has a truer word been spoken.

Review: Enjoy, Theatre Royal, Newcastle

ALAN Bennett’s dark comedy Enjoy is at Newcastle Theatre Royal until Saturday. Entertainment Editor GORDON BARR saw it – but did he like it?

Review: Woman in Black, Darlington Civic Theatre

IT was like being a part of a real-life horror. So tense was the atmosphere in this ghost story that it was hard to separate yourself from the action on stage.

Review: Lee Hall- How to Make a Successful Play, Live Theatre

IF THERE’S anyone who knows the secret of a successful play then Lee Hall is surely your man.

Review: Porridge, Darlington Civic Theatre

IN THE Seventies, Slade was a very popular group whose hits were numerous and always guaranteed to be a success at parties.

Also in Theatre...

Review: A Handful of Henna, Customs House, South Shields

Review: A Handful of Henna, Customs House, South Shields

Young reviewer RICHARD GRIBBIN catches A Handful of Henna at the Customs House, South Shields. It is at Queen’s Hall, Hexham, tomorrow

Darlington students perform funky musicial

Darlington students perform funky musicial

FOLLOW the yellow brick road ... that’s the message from the 70 strong young cast of Darlington Arts Academy theatre arts group.

Mix of shows visiting Teesside theatres

Mix of shows visiting Teesside theatres

FROM dance to dark drama - there’s a real mix of productions heading to Tees Valley’s theatres next week.