Theatre
Type
Gateshead
Where
Theatre · Attraction
Good for
Check before you go
Cost
Plan your visit
Opening times
Open access — check locally for facilities
Location
Gateshead, NE8 4JS
Parent hack
Arrive at opening time in school holidays — you'll beat the queues and the car park.
The Little Theatre Gateshead is Gateshead's only theatre. It was built during World War II, thanks to the generosity of sisters Ruth, Sylvia and M. Hope Dodds. It is believed that the theatre is the only one built in Britain during the war. The building process was interrupted by hostilities after the site was acquired in 1939, being at one time requisitioned as a barrage balloon station, and at another having windows and doors damaged by a bomb falling in Saltwell Park, just across the road. The opening performance on 13 October 1943, was A Midsummer Night's Dream. The theatre is home to the…
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