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Alphabetti Theatre is buzzing with theatre, comedy, music, arts and more! Check back here for our most up-to-date listings including Pay What You Feel shows, Accessible shows and Family Friendly events.

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Alphabetti Writing Group

Thursday 12th June 2025

By popular demand, Alphabetti presents our writing group! Our call to action for writers seeking cosiness and community.

Times: 5pm-7pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: FREE

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Showaoke LIVE on The D’Addario Stage

Friday 13th June 2025

It's karaoke but instead of the pants background music you'll be accompanied by the musical magician, Jen Stevens.

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: FREE (Donations Welcome)

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Simon Taylor LIVE with support from Lesley Roley

Saturday 14th June 2025

Mellow originals from veteran Newcastle singer-songwriters Lesley Roley and Simon Taylor.

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: £3-£10

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Queering Folk workshop

Thursday 19th June

This is a performance and storytelling workshop for refugees, sanctuary seekers or 1st generation immigrants, who identify as LGBTQIA+

Times: 1pm & 5.30pm

Age Recommendation: 16+ beginners friendly

Price: Free

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Rat Race – live at Alphabetti Theatre

Friday 20th June 2025

The knockout improv comedy games show

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 18+

Price: £3-£8

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Alphabetti Writing Group

Thursday 26th June 2025

By popular demand, Alphabetti presents our writing group! Our call to action for writers seeking cosiness and community.

Times: 5pm-7pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: FREE

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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival

Friday 27th June 2025

The UK's engine room of adventurous new opera opens this year in Newcastle with two nights of pioneering work from local artists mentored by Tête à Tête.

Times: Various

Age Recommendation: Various

Price: £6.50, £17.50 or £29.50 

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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival - Rossini and the Overture

Friday 27th June 2025

An impersonator. A deadline. An hour to finish the show!

Times: 8.30pm

Age Recommendation: All Ages

Price: £6.50, £17.50 or £29.50 

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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival - It Must Have Been a Tuesday

Friday 27th June 2025

An opera first - true stories with no safety net

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: All Ages

Price: £6.50, £17.50 or £29.50 

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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival - Festival Shorts

Saturday 28th June 2025

Dragons, poets, and rivalries: a buffet of new works!

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 15 and over

Price: £6.50, £17.50 or £29.50 

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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival - Ghost

Saturday 28th June 2025

If you died, who would you haunt?

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 15 and over

Price: £6.50, £17.50 or £29.50 

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Courtney Bucher: Big, If True (WIP)

Wednesday 2nd July 2025

4 stories, 2 versions, 1 question. Is Courtney telling the truth?

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 14+ guideline (strong language and audience participation)

Price: £3-£10

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Queer Planet

Thursday 3rd July 2025

Award-winning drag king and London's loveable nature boy, Bi-Curious George, invites you into a raucous celebration of queerness and the animal kingdom.

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 18+

Price: £3-£15

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Lort Burn Specials with Gareth Dennis

Friday 4th July 2025

Lort Burn Specials is a new series of occasional talks and cultural nights at the Alphabetti Theatre.

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 18+

Price: £3-£15

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The Jack Tars with support from Kyle Lennox, Noah Fenton, and Alex Lord

Saturday 5th July 2025

Footstompin’ Sea Shanty Night!.

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 12+

Price: £3-£10

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Geet Northern Show

Wednesday 9th July 2025

Geet Northern Show welcomes the biggest stars from the North onto it’s busted sofa

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: £3-£10

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Alphabetti Writing Group

Thursday 10th July 2025

By popular demand, Alphabetti presents our writing group! Our call to action for writers seeking cosiness and community.

Times: 5pm-7pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: FREE

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BAIRNS

Friday 11th and Saturday 12th July 2025

Lottie’s just made the mother of all promises and needs to grow up -fast

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 14+

Price: £3-£15

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Dez Dare // Sha Rivari & the Maybes // Super Burner  

Wednesday 16th July 2025

Brighton-based DIY psych-punk legend Dez Dare is on tour fresh off the release of his new album 'CHERYL! Your Love Shines Down Like A Supernova's Death'.

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 18+

Price: £3-£10

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Trans+ Zone

Saturday 19th July

A free drop in Zone which will provide a safe, celebratory, and empowering area for the region’s trans and non-binary community.

Times: 1-5pm

Age Recommendation: Any Age

Price: Free, Drop in.

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The Pedro Pascal says Trans Rights Cabaret

Saturday 19th July 2025

Calling all you Kings, Queens and Everything in betweens! Mack and Mama Rhi are back with the cabaret of their dreams: The Pedro Pascal says Trans Rights Cabaret!  

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 18+

Price: £3-£10

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Newcastle Fringe Festival

July 22nd – August 2nd

Comedy, music, theatre, cabaret, drag, family entertainment — and so much more!

Times: Various

Age Various

Price: Various

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Alphabetti Writing Group

Thursday 24th July 2025

By popular demand, Alphabetti presents our writing group! Our call to action for writers seeking cosiness and community.

Times: 5pm-7pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: FREE

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Dial 1 for UK

Wednesday 6th August

What happens when your dream country doesn’t dream of you?

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 14+

Price: £3-£10

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Alphabetti Writing Group

Thursday 7th August 2025

By popular demand, Alphabetti presents our writing group! Our call to action for writers seeking cosiness and community.

Times: 5pm-7pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: FREE

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Snoligoster

Thursday 7th & Friday 8th August 2025

Straight from the swamp to set the record straight …

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 14+

Price: £3-£18

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At Sea

Saturday 16th to Saturday 23rd August 2025

"What was lost, can be found" A fantastical puppet adventure

Times: Various

Age Recommendation: 6+

Price: 16th - 20th August PWYF, 21st - 23rd August £3-£10

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Alphabetti Writing Group

Thursday 21st August 2025

By popular demand, Alphabetti presents our writing group! Our call to action for writers seeking cosiness and community.

Times: 5pm-7pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: FREE

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Alphabetti Writing Group

Thursday 4th September 2025

By popular demand, Alphabetti presents our writing group! Our call to action for writers seeking cosiness and community.

Times: 5pm-7pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: FREE

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Alphabetti Writing Group

Thursday 18th September 2025

By popular demand, Alphabetti presents our writing group! Our call to action for writers seeking cosiness and community.

Times: 5pm-7pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: FREE

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In The Beginning Woman Was The Sun

Thursday 25th and Friday 26th September 2025

A surreal, witty quest to find history’s iconic Japanese women.

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: £3-£15

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Nought Percent Club

Saturday 27th  September 2025

Where the beats are smooth, the vibes are high, and the cake is always on point. No booze, just energy!

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: £3-£10

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Suthering with support TBA

Thursday 9th October 2025

Powerful songwriting with traditional folk influences, Suthering offer an authentic and engaging performance of self-penned songs for our times.

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 16+

Price: FREE

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Father JC’s Holy Show

Thursday 16th & Friday 17th October 2025

Father JC - the Irish Drag Priest with mass appeal is taking a divine pilgrimage across the nation, bringing his big mass to the masses               

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 14+

Price: £3-£15

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Josienne Clarke & The Deluded – Far From Nowhere

Friday 28th November 2025

Far From Nowhere – the astonishing new album from Josienne Clarke. 

A night of live music and film.

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 18+

Price: £3-£18

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The Mighty Goddess

Thursday 4th December 2025

Goddess myths, X-rated stories, spells and songs for adults only!

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 18+

Price: £3-£10

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There Will Be Tinsel

Wednesday 10th December 2025

Christmas poems and stories: the perfect night out in December

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 14+

Price: £3-£15

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Our Little Hour

Thursday 5th to Saturday 7th March 2026

A powerfully compelling and hauntingly beautiful musical telling the true-life story of resilience, courage and pioneering achievement in the face of adversity 

Times: 7.30pm

Age Recommendation: 11+

Price: £3-£15

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Covid-19 Policy

Face coverings are no longer mandatory in the venue but are encouraged. We are now selling to full capacity for all performances. If you or someone you have been in close proximity with has Covid-19 symptoms please do not visit the theatre.

New Work

We often show new work, work-in-progress and previews. Please note that the majority of these scripts will be in development during the rehearsal process, and we are often unable to finalise content warnings and running time when tickets go on sale. Finalised content warnings and run time will kept updated on the website, so please check back before your visit if you need this information.

Pay What You Feel

We sometimes offer a 'Pay What You Feel' option for some shows, this means you can come and watch the show and simply pay what you feel the show was worth after but, most importantly, what you can afford.

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Opening Hours 
We are open 11am - 10pm Wednesday - Friday and 6pm-10pm on Saturdays
 

Address
Alphabetti Theatre, St James Boulevard, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom NE1 4HP

 

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Phone 
0191 261 9125. Our phone lines are open Monday-Tuesday: 10 - 6
Wednesday - Friday: 10 - 10
Saturday: 6 - 10

 

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Good Boy Rex the Theatre Dog
Arts Council England
Community Foundation, Newcastle Culture Investment Fund Supported by Newcastle City Council
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The Barbour Foundation
Esmee Fairburn Foundation

With thanks to the
Fagus Anstruther Memorial Trust

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