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to create a building which houses a theatre auditorium, café bar, rehearsal spaces and administrative offices. Live Theatre also took over the lease of a new warehouse building on Broad Chare, immediately adjacent to the previous theatre. In 2007 Live Theatre underwent a further capital development.
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Live Theatre runs the largest free youth theatre group in the North East of England, which runs weekly sessions for young people of mixed ability ages 11–25. Live Youth Theatre was founded in 1998 by Live Theatre's current Senior Creative Associate Children and Young People, Paul James at the
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It now has a cabaret style theatre, a studio theatre, renovated rehearsal rooms, a series of dedicated writer's rooms as well as a café, bar and gastro pub, The Broad Chare, all in a restored and refurbished complex of five Grade II listed buildings.
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written by Bruntwood Prize winning author Alistair McDowall, directed by Clive Judd and starring Mark Weinman returned to Live Theatre in May 2014 and was performed at Northern Stage's Kings Hall Edinburgh venue for a week as part of the
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by Patrick Marber, starring Stephen Tompkinson, had successful runs at Live Theatre and on a West End transfer, and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.
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in spring 2014, which previewed at Live Theatre in April 2014, before going to HighTide Festival and The North Wall. It returned to Live Theatre in May 2014 and then had a sell-out run at
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The theatre also hosts a free creative writing programme for KS2 and KS3 students called Live Tales in studios behind the theatre in Newcastle and at The Fire Station, Sunderland.
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In 2013 Live Theatre celebrated 40 years of creating plays on Tyneside with a programme that included a new national tour of Lee Hall's
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Live Theatre develops new writing talent in the region. The company has enjoyed significant relationships with many writers such as
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community and sought to break down barriers by presenting this work to ordinary working-class people within their own communities.
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Max Roberts, Artistic Director until 2018, is currently Emeritus Artistic Director, and also lectures at the
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music created and performed by Tango musician Julian Rowlands and dance choreographed by Amir Giles.
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was a co-production between Live Theatre, nabokov, HighTide Festival Theatre and in association with
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Between January and June 2014 Live Theatre presented a series screenplays in development by writer
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since 1982, expanding over the years to occupy the current premises which combine converted
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request of then Artistic Director Max Roberts, and has notable alumni including
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by Bill Kenwright Limited, and sell out runs at Live Theatre of
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Live Theatre website, Live Theatre website (6 February 2024).
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by new talent Paddy Campbell and a revival of Lee Hall's
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