MONDO BREWING COMPANY

by Vikki Jane Vile - January 16, 2026

It’s only four days since the sugar rush of Aaron S. Watkin’s Nutcracker wrapped up a run of forty performances. Frothy and colourful, it is in stark contrast to Akram Khan’s Giselle...

by Amber-Rae Stobbs - January 16, 2026

​Who gets to decide where, or what, ‘home’ is? For many, it’s a place: the town or city you were born in; the destination you’ve always felt drawn to, regardless of the reason; or maybe it’s a building, somewhere you feel your safest. It’s to no one's surprise that when you ask a Geordie where their...

by Clementine Scott - January 16, 2026

Haven’t we all wanted to have a chat with our inner child at some point? And what if the inner child is not quite as faultless and innocent as we may think?...

by Clementine Scott - January 15, 2026

The stage is immediately set for a confrontation. We the audience are looking down the length of a Victorian dining table, lit from beneath, poised perfectly for domestic rows to erupt before the meal is even served....

by Franco Milazzo - January 14, 2026

Let’s get the essentials out of the way. Ovo — Portuguese for “egg” — catapults you into a bug-infested universe where creepy-crawlies are given the Cirque du Soleil treatment as they jump, flip, dance and contort around a giant inflatable egg. The oval centrepiece is about 28 feet wide and 22 feet ...

by Aliya Al-Hassan - January 12, 2026

Set in the American West of the 1800s, High Noon rides on themes as relevant now as they were then. Courage vs. Cowardice. Justice vs. Peace. Duty vs. Desire. And at its heart, is the bond between Will Kane and Amy Fowler – a love tested by impossible choices as the clock ticks down to the return of...

by Gary Naylor - January 10, 2026

Denise Gough and Rosa Salazar also excel in unexpectedly deeply moving stage version of the much-loved movie...

by Clementine Scott - January 09, 2026

Opera as a whole may be too reliant on museum pieces, on endless identikit revivals designed to secure bums on seats. But in the case of Richard Eyre’s 1994 La traviata, the old adage might be true: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it....

by Katie Kirkpatrick - January 09, 2026

Walking down an ominous red-lit corridor and being asked to put on over-ear headphones isn’t your typical start to a night at the theatre – but then A Ghost in Your Ear isn’t your typical play. Jamie Armitage’s second show as both writer and director (after last year’s An Interrogation) is a true ho...

by Clementine Scott - January 08, 2026

Lyle Kessler’s Orphans was first performed in 1983, but you wouldn’t know that from this production. The tiny stage feels overcome by Sarah Beaton’s design, retro but not too retro, a space immune to the passing decades....