It is surrounded by Newcastle University's city centre campus on King's Walk, opposite the students' union building.

[8] During the 2006 refurbishment an art installation was constructed on the roof of the theatre, titled Escapology, by artist Cath Campbell.

[9] On 7 April 2008 the Barras Bridge car park was permanently closed for the development of the university's new King's Gate Building.

On reopening in 2007 productions included the first-ever revival of Our Friends in the North, Lipsynch (a co-production with Robert Lepage), the first major UK adaptation of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and updated versions of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

More recently, productions have included Hedda Gabler and Dr. Frankenstein, both in co-production with Newcastle-based theatre company Greyscale.