What's on in the North East

Published: 13 March 2016
Reporter: Peter Lathan

A Midsummer Night's Dream (RSC at Northern Stage) Credit: Topher McGrillis
Romeo and Juliet (Birmingham Royal Ballet at Sunderland Empire)
Of Mice and Men (Darlington Civic)

Alan Bennett’s Single Spies comes to the Theatre Royal in Newcastle from Tuesday to Saturday.

The RSC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring the Castle Players from Barnard Castle and Newcastle’s People’s Theatre, is at Northern Stage from Tuesday until 22 March.

Rachel Jackson writes and performs Memoirs of a Bunny Boiler in Live Theatre’s Studio on Wednesday and Thursday.

On Tuesday, a scratch night for young artists with works-in-progress curated by Curious Monkey Youth Board, Scratch the Monkey, comes to Alphabetti. Then on Saturday Kelli Tori and Paula Varjack present How I Became Myself (By Becoming Someone Else), a “performed documentary.”

Southpaw Dance Company’s work-in-progress Speakeasy, a modern interpretation of Faust, is at Dance City on Friday.

Birmingham Royal Ballet brings Romeo and Juliet to Sunderland Empire from Thursday to Saturday.

Get Yourself Together—part stand-up, part spoken word and part teenager in his room pretending he’s in a punk band—comes to the Studio at the Customs House.

Of Mice and Men tours to Darlington Civic Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday.

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