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What’s on this weekend: January 27-29

This week’s top pick

Shakespeare in Art - Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Saturday January 28 - ongoing. Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 2pm-5pm. Free admission.

An exhibition celebrating the 17th birthday of Newcastle’s Theatre Royal, and exploring Shakespeare’s influence on art. Several Victorian oil paintings and watercolours will take pride of place; particular highlights will include Walter Howell Deverall’s ’Scene from ‘As You Like It’, and Thomas Francis Dicksee’s beautiful ‘Juliet’. Paintings, prints and objects from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums’ collections depict famous plays such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and The Merchant of Venice.

Cinema

The Descendants - Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle. Friday January 27, 6.10pm and 8.40pm. Tickets: £8; £6.9n conc.

Sideways and About Schmidt director Alexander Payne, teams up with George Clooney to create a bittersweet, heartbreakingly hilarious tale of a workaholic lawyer who finds himself as a single parent when his wife falls into a coma. To make matters worse, he then must come to terms with the fact that his wife may not have been faithful. Rolling Stone magazine called it: “damn near perfect.”

Food and Drink

Newcastle Restaurant Week - Restaurants across the city. Until Sunday January 29. £10 per person.

Food lovers across the region have the chance to dine out for £10 per person at some of Newcastle’s top restaurants, as the last few days of the 3rd restaurant week draws to a close. Enjoy a great value meal at various venues, including Caffe Vivo, Noosh and Sabatini Ristorante among others.

Theatre

The Russian State Ballet and Orchestra of Siberia, Sleeping Beauty - Sunderland Empire. Sunday January 29. Tickets: £20-£37.50.

Favourite fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty is set to Tchaikovsky’s sublime score featuring stunning choreography, sumptuous costumes and wonderful sets. This is Russia’s leading ballet company in action, and promises to deliver performances of outstanding quality and unusual depth. The soloists and corps de ballet are superb and never fail to delight audiences with breathtaking physical ability and dazzling costumes.

Music

The Union Choir, The Prison Library, O’Messy Life and The Lake Poets - The Cluny, Newcastle. Saturday January 28. 8pm. Tickets: £6.

A quadruple header, featuring some of the region’s most notable unsigned acts at the moment. The Union Choir have been compared to Belle and Sebastian, The National and Arcade Fire, and have gained a loyal following. The Prison Library provide brooding guitar sounds, while O’Messy Life have received endorsement from BBC 6 Music’s Marc Riley. The Lake Poets round off the bill with delicate acoustic guitar and thought-provoking lyricism.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .