{"id":2971,"date":"2021-06-02T16:16:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T12:16:03","slug":"northern-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2021\/06\/02\/northern-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Northern Stage<\/em>&nbsp;is a theatre&nbsp;and&nbsp;producing&nbsp;theatre company,&nbsp;situated at the heart of Newcastle University\u2019s city centre campus.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally the&nbsp;<em>University Theatre<\/em>, the building&nbsp;opened in 1970. This photograph taken&nbsp;in 1969 shows the site prior to the theatre&#8217;s construction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/front-1-1024x551.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3043\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/front-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?attachment_id=3043\" class=\"wp-image-3043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/front-1-1024x551.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/front-1-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/front-1-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/front-1-500x269.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/front-1.jpg 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Newcastle University Student&#8217;s Union Building and Playhouse site prior to construction 1969, NUA\/061885-2, Newcastle University Archives, Newcastle University Special Collections, GB 186<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the late 1980s, the&nbsp;<em>Northern Stage Theatre Company<\/em>, who had been resident at the theatre before temporarily&nbsp;moving, returned&nbsp;to the venue,&nbsp;and the&nbsp;theatre was renamed&nbsp;<em>Newcastle Playhouse and&nbsp;Gulbenkian&nbsp;Studio, home of Northern Stage.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After it closed for major refurbishment work in 2004, it was decided to amalgamate the venue (<em>Newcastle Playhouse<\/em>) and resident theatre company (<em>Northern Stage<\/em>) into one organisation. The building reopened its doors in 2006 under a new name,&nbsp;<em>Northern Stage<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/63921-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/63921-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/63921-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/63921-1-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2021\/06\/63921-1-429x300.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Photograph of the Northern Stage, photograph taken by John Donoghue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Northern Stage<\/em>&nbsp;is widely regarded as one of the top producing theatres in the UK and, each year, as well as their own in-house productions,&nbsp;<em>Northern&nbsp;Stage<\/em>&nbsp;presents work from visiting&nbsp;local, national and international&nbsp;companies and artists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See more\u00a0information\u00a0about\u00a0<em>Northern Stage<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernstage.co.uk\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.northernstage.co.uk\/\">their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To see more&nbsp;photographs&nbsp;of Newcastle University campus from the university archives, visit&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk\/\">CollectionsCaptured<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-Curate (no date) <em>Northern Stage. <\/em>Available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/co-curate.ncl.ac.uk\/newcastle-playhouse\/\">https:\/\/co-curate.ncl.ac.uk\/newcastle-playhouse\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newcastle University (2018) <em>Art on Campus<\/em>. Available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/art-on-campus\/iconic-buildings\/#viewdetails\">https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/art-on-campus\/iconic-buildings\/#viewdetails<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NorthernStage (no date) <em>Northern Stage. <\/em>Available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernstage.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.northernstage.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to learn more about the history of Newcastle University campus? Why not explore all the articles in our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/category\/campus-tour\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/category\/campus-tour\/\">Campus Tour blog series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Stage&nbsp;is a theatre&nbsp;and&nbsp;producing&nbsp;theatre company,&nbsp;situated at the heart of Newcastle University\u2019s city centre campus.&nbsp;&nbsp; Originally the&nbsp;University Theatre, the building&nbsp;opened in 1970. This photograph taken&nbsp;in 1969 shows the site prior to the theatre&#8217;s construction.&nbsp; In the late 1980s, the&nbsp;Northern Stage Theatre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2021\/06\/02\/northern-stage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[718],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-tour","tag-campustour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}