Posted on 13 December 2010.
IT’S panto season again, with a host of tops shows vying for your custom around the North East. Here’s a round-up of what you can see, and where. PANTO legends Ray Spencer and Bob Stott are leading the Christmas capers at the Customs House. The South Shields venue reckons this year’s show, Puss In Boots, [...]
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Posted on 08 January 2010.
Published Date: 07 January 2010 By Fiona Thompson Theatre bosses have already started taking ticket bookings for their next pantomime as they celebrate their most successful festive show. The Gala, in Durham, has just finished its second in-house panto, Dick Whittington, which has broken a record as the venue’s most financially successful show of [...]
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Posted on 05 November 2009.
By Danielle Beeton Singer Shaun Foster-Conley has been swamped by fan mail since becoming a star of the small screen. The 36-year-old, who lives in Fence Houses and is originally from Red House, Sunderland, has also been constantly stopped in the street since his first appearance on the hit show Benidorm last month. Shaun, who [...]
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Posted on 21 October 2009.
A singer who made his name in the clubs of Sunderland is set to become a star of the small screen tonight. Entertainer Shaun Foster-Conley will appear in ITV’s award-winning show Benidorm and is set to appear in three more episodes. The 36-year-old, who performs at the popular resort for up to seven months in [...]
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Posted on 18 September 2008.
Aug 25 2007 Evening Chronicle For three decades Donald McBride has been a stalwart of Newcastle’s Live Theatre, meeting many famous faces along the way. Here he talks to GRAHAM ROBSON IT was apt that actor Donald McBride won a part in the award-winning film Billy Elliot, based as it was on a story [...]
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Posted on 25 August 2008.
Celebrating the work of Olwyn Jordan (left) I Spy Mrs Lindsey from Bournmoor at the back now living in Chester le Street.
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Posted on 16 August 2008.
Event Venue Dates Lazy Town Live! Sunderland Empire 13 Aug 08 – 16 Aug 08 Hello Dolly! Sunderland Empire 18 Aug 08 – 23 Aug 08 Horrible Histories – The Vile Victorians Sunderland Empire 03 Sep 08 – 06 Sep 08 Horrible Histories – The Terrible Tudors Sunderland Empire 04 Sep 08 – 06 Sep [...]
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Posted on 23 July 2008.
Hi, here’s a track I wrote which is inspired by riding my bike when I was younger around the woods in Fence Houses with my brothers and my friends. We used to race each other around the pathways and try and ‘out-jump’ each other over the exposed tree roots which were growing over the track. [...]
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tech: Hello Billy, I hope you are still playing the Fenc...
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Billy Waites: Hi Ian,
I was brought up in Fence Houses and stil...
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