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One of the best things about our job is being on the road. We get to visit some wonderful places touring Much Ado, and spend time in the company of people who have been fans of Broadsides for years. It's a privilege. With our 'A Muddle in Messina' companion piece...

A Northern Broadsides blog After several years of working mostly in television, radio and the voice over industry, I’m delighted to be back on stage again. Playing a brilliant part in a brilliant play. For a brilliant theatre company. And on tour. Now, I haven’t...

A few years back I was involved in another play in which my character was partly responsible for assaulting a police officer and hiding his unconscious body in a cupboard. That play was ‘Sex and Docks and Rock and Roll’ by Boff Whalley, the company was Red Ladder. We...

Michael Hugo: Sergeant/Constable/Undertaker/Pops A 'tour' has had two meanings for me as long as I can remember. I've known you can be shown around a place of interest and that's a tour, but in my dad's work a tour meant a posting to another country. In our case...

Wherever we go, whoever we meet, whatever the size or scale of the experience, we tend to take time out after the event, to reflect. I asked the cast and crew of They Don't Pay? We Won't Pay! if during our final week at The Viaduct Theatre, they would help me reflect...

Pauline Yates. “My mum always wanted to be an actress”, says her now actress daughter, Jemma Churchill. Jemma is at The Empire with Nativity! The Musical and Northern Broadsides have been causing mischief at The Playhouse with They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!    We are...