@peoplestheatre.bsky.social
The North-East of England's leading non-professional theatre https://linktr.ee/peoplestheatre
NEXT WEEK
A missing backpacker suddenly reappears months after vanishing, but is he the real thing?
An intense and unsettling psychological thriller by Northumberland-born Shelagh Stephenson
ENLIGHTENMENT
📅 Mon 13 – Sat 18 October
🎟 Book now! #LinkInBio
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6 reasons to love @peoplestheatre.bsky.social plus @livetheatre.bsky.social starts its new season strong: traceysinclair.substack.com/p/6-reasons-...
02.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
💐 Sending leg breaks and best wishes to the cast, crew and creative team of HOME, I'M DARLING ahead of the opening performance this evening!
🎟 Book now!
You can grab your tickets online (link in bio), or on the door in person from 6.30pm
📷 Paul Hood
🎬 TRAILER
"Judy is the perfect housewife!"
Only one week to go until Laura Wade's sparkling comedy HOME, I'M DARLING takes to our stage 🍰
🎟 Book now - link in bio
📷 Paul Hood
🎬 Alison Carr
👗🍸 With thanks to the wardrobe and props teams
NEXT:
Judy has given her life a retro-rebrand and embraced a full-time role as a 1950s housewife.
As she strives to be a domestic goddess, Judy finds herself increasingly clashing with reality in this award-winning comedy about gender roles, rebellion, and cake!
NOW PLAYING
A fractured family, and a son adrift.
THE SON by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton
📅 until Saturday
🎟 Tickets available
Book online at peoplestheatre.co.uk, or on the door in person from 6.30pm
📷 Paul Hood
youtu.be/Jm8mZA1_2KY
OPENING NIGHT 🎭
Sending leg breaks and best wishes to everyone involved in this week's powerful drama THE SON.
📅 until Saturday 13th
⌚ 7.30pm
🎟 Tickets available
Book online at peoplestheatre.co.uk, or on the door in person from 6.30pm
📷 Paul Hood
Can you believe there's only 100 days to go until our #Panto starts?!
We hope you can join us for all the fun in the 'wicked' and wonderful land of Oz 🌈👠🌟❤
📅 13th - 21st December
⌚ afternoon & evenings perfs
🌟 incl a Relaxed Perf on Tues 16th
🎟 #LinkInBio
New theatre feat. @peoplestheatre.bsky.social and more! traceysinclair.substack.com/p/seagulls-a...
27.08.2025 11:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
👀 A first-look into the rehearsal room for THE SON.
From internationally acclaimed playwright Florian Zeller, this is a powerful look at teenage depression and parental helplessness.
📅 8th - 13th September
🎟 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the...
📷 Lauren Aspery
🔍 A closer look at what we've got coming up in our intimate and versatile Studio Theatre this Season!
ℹ peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on
🔍 A closer look at what we've got coming up on the Main Stage this Season!
ℹ www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on
📷 Paul Hood (Steel Magnolias: Jess Williams)
21.07.2025 10:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The curtain has come down on our Spring/Summer 2025 Season ... and what a Season it's been!
Thank you to everyone who made it happen, and thank you to everyone who joined us ❤👏
We're on our summer break now, but we'll be back with a bumper New Season from September 💪
This week: WAITING FOR GOD, on until Saturday!
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I really recommend it to both fans of the show and those new to the characters” -
@reviewnortharts
"brilliantly done" - Break A Leg
"Not laughed so much in ages!" - audience comment
🎟 #LinkInBio
📷 Paul Hood
Break legs to everyone involved in WAITING FOR GOD ❤
Diana and Tom are ready to raise hell in this hilarious and heart warming stage adaptation of the popular BBC sitcom!
🎟 Tickets available
Book online #LinkInBio, or on the door in-person from 6.30pm
📷 Paul Hood
Bayview residents Diana and Tom as you've never seen them before!
🚗 Hilarious comedy WAITING FOR GOD celebrates aging boldly - and if that includes a high-speed trip to Bournemouth in a stolen Porsche, then so be it 😆
📅 15th - 19th July
🎟 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/wai...
📷 Jess Chapman
spotlight on @peoplestheatre.bsky.social new season and Newcastle Fringe traceysinclair.substack.com/p/the-people...
09.07.2025 12:50 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0A great variety of shows as ever.
09.07.2025 13:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0📣 Our Autumn/Winter 2025-26 line-up is here 🎉
Our biggest Season ever is full-to-bursting with absorbing dramas, hilarious comedies, exciting new writing … and a Christmas Panto thrown in for good measure!
🎟 Tickets are on sale now
🔗 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on
The set build for our upcoming WAITING FOR GOD is well underway!
🔗 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/wai...
📷 Claire Leighton
NEXT: Growing old disgracefully in the Bayview Retirement Village in the hilarious BAFTA-nominated comedy!
🎟 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/wai...
Reviews for this week's STEEL MAGNOLIAS, playing until Saturday 14th!
🌸 ★★★★★ "wholesome and heartbreaking" - @reviewnortharts
🌸 "a cast that would bear comparison with any professional company" - Theatre Baby
🌸 "The stage is set to perfection" - Break A Leg
🎟 Link in bio
📷 Jess Williams
Review of the warm, witty production of Steel Magnolias @peoplestheatre.bsky.social
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"Laughter through tears is my favourite emotion"
👀 A first-look at STEEL MAGNOLIAS on our stage!
Leg breaks and good wishes to everyone involved ahead of tonight's first performance ❤
🎟 Tickets available.
Book online #LinkInBio, or on the door from 6.30pm
🌺 With one week to go, it's time to meet the ladies of Truvy’s beauty parlour!
💗 Every one of them will steal your heart
✂ STEEL MAGNOLIAS by Robert Harling
📅 Tue 10 - Sat 14 June
🎟 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ste...
📷 Mark Burden
🎞 Alison Carr
📣 This month at the People's
👋 Wed 4th: New Members Night
🎙 Sat 7th: Broadway Live at the People's
✂ Tues 10th-Sat 14th: STEEL MAGNOLIAS by Robert Harling
🌟 Wed 18th-Thurs 19th: Heaton Shakespeare Festival
💃🕺 Sun 29th: SA Youth Academy Summer Show
🔎 This #SherlockHolmesDay we're throwing back to our 2021 production of Steven Canny and John Nicholson's wonderfully silly spoof of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES!
🐾 While in 2009 we staged a much more traditional production of the Conan Doyle classic
📷 Mark Burden
"Honey. It's the eighties. If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past."
👀 A first-look at rehearsals for next month's STEEL MAGNOLIAS!
✂ STEEL MAGNOLIAS by Robert Harling
📅 10th - 14th June
🎟 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ste...
📷 Ginny Leigh
NEXT: STEEL MAGNOLIAS by Robert Harling
“I don’t trust anybody that does their own hair. I don’t think it’s normal.”
✂ Life, love, grief and friendship as six women put the world to rights in a small-town beauty salon.
🎟 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ste...
