Northumberland Theatre Company
The Playhouse, Bondgate Without,
Alnwick
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NTC was created in 1978 as Theatre in Northumberland Schools, funded by the Education Authority and based in Backworth. In the early 1980s, Northern Arts offered the Company revenue support to extend our role into touring village halls and community centres. Then, in 1984, we bought the Playhouse Theatre in Alnwick, a former cinema which we converted into a 150 capacity studio / rehearsal room, with ancillary offices, workshop and wardrobe facilities. The Company now owns the Playhouse outright and leases the upstairs 262 seater auditorium to Alnwick District Playhouse Trust, who opened it as an Arts Centre in 1990. The building has recently been refurbished with Lottery moneys. You can see our most recent accounts here.
The company's venues are predominantly village halls and community centres in small rural towns and villages in the North East region and the Scottish Borders. Over recent years, the Company has also begun to be recognised nationally and is now touring regularly outside the Northern region. The majority of the touring comprises of one night stands, although we do play for longer in the larger venues. NTC has commissioned seventeen world premieres since the year 2000 and has a national touring profile of over 50%. In the last ten years, more than 101,000 people have seen an NTC production. We have travelled almost 200,000 miles and given over 1250 performances. We now regularly tour as far North as Wick in Scotland, Ebbw Vale in South Wales and to Suffolk in Southern England.
