What's on in the North East

Published: 12 May 2013
Reporter: Peter Lathan

The Seagull
Live Witness
Timothy West

Midnight Tango runs at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle from Monday to Saturday.

Headlong’s production of The Seagull comes to Northern Stage from Tuesday to Saturday. From Wednesday to Saturday, Northern Stage collaborates with Northumbria University's Performing Arts students to present Dürrenmatt’s The Visit and States of Descent, written and directed by Steve Gilroy.

Live Witness runs at Live Theatre from Tuesday to 25th May.

Sunderland University presents Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at Arts Centre Washington on Thursday.

From Tuesday to Thursday, Gilded Balloon presents Murder Marple & Me by NE author Philip Meeks in the Studio at the Customs House in South Shields.

Murder Marple & Me moves to The Maltings in Berwick on Saturday.

Birmingham Royal Ballet brings Take Five, Bitesized Ballet and The Grand Tour to Durham’s Gala Theatre on Friday and Saturday.

From Tuesday to Saturday Horrible Histories comes to the Billingham Forum with Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians.

Luna, presented by Theatre Hullabaloo and Theatr Iolo and aimed at age 2+, is at ARC Stockton at 11.30 and 2.30 on Saturday 18th and Saturday 25th May.

Tim Firth’s Neville’s Island plays at Middlesbrough Theatre from Thursday to Saturday as part of its Rep Season.

Thunder Road in association with Harrogate Theatre presents The Count of Monte Cristo at the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond on Thursday and on Friday Timothy West reads Janácek’s love letters chronologically placed between the movements of his 2nd string quartet, Intimate Letters.

Swansea City Opera brings Donizetti’s Don Pasquale to Harrogate Theatre on Friday.

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