Job Title: Maintenance Volunteer Reports to: Chair of Building committee Appointed by: Interview Panel Period of Appointment: casual hours, approx. 5 hours a week, flexible Salary: Unpaid volunteer position Purpose of Role The Maintenance volunteers will support the Maintenance Co-Ordinator and the Chair of the Building Committee and work with other existing volunteers to carry...Read More

Northern Architectural History lecture Over the last 12 months, work has started on planning a major restoration of the Tyne Theatre & Opera House. In consequence, the architectural genealogy of this Grade I listed building has been finally unravelled. Join the Northern Architectural History Society and theatre consultant, David Wilmore, to hear about the architectural...Read More

Is one of these people your ancestor? Help us with our heritage project! We are searching for the descendants of its Victorian stage staff as part of our National Heritage Lottery funded project. The group photo was discovered by Project Director David Wilmore in a copy of the Evening Chronicle from 1937. It shows the...Read More

Tyne Theatre & Opera House receive historic theatre machinery On Thursday 20th October, a large collection of historic theatre machinery arrived at the Tyne Theatre & Opera House Stage Door on Thornton Street. During the conversion of the Tyne Theatre & Opera House to a cinema in 1919, the theatre’s own overhead stage machinery was...Read More