What's on in the North East

Published: 1 May 2016
Reporter: Peter Lathan

Tom: A Story of Tom Jones. The Musical (Theatre Royal, Newcastle) Credit: Simon Gough
Nomadic by Richard Alston Dance Company (Northern Stage)
She Wins All the Races (Queen's Hall, Hexham)

From Tuesday to Saturday, Tom: A Story of Tom Jones. The Musical comes to Newcastle’s Theatre Royal.

The Richard Alston Dance Company brings a mixed programme of Nomadic, Burning and Brisk Singing to Northern Stage on Wednesday and Thursday.

On Sunday 8 May, Live Theatre hosts 10 Minutes to… Make Amends, seven new ten-minute plays on the theme of making amends.

The Simon and Garfunkel Story comes to the Tyne Theatre & Opera House on Thursday.

From Monday to Saturday Alphabetti Theatre presents Frank Sumatra by NE writer Mike Yeaman.

On Friday and Saturday Ockham’s Razor performs Tipping Point at Dance City.

The University of Sunderland’s drama department take over Arts Centre Washington for the whole of May with Sunfest, its showcase of students’ work. This week’s production is The Drunks.

In Tuesday the revival of Tom Kelly’s Baby Love comes to the Customs House Studio.

One-woman show She Wins All the Races is the latest BITESIZE production in the Green Room at the Queen’s Hall in Hexham on Thursday and Friday.

From Monday to Wednesday, The Original Theatre Company and The Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds presents Torben Betts’s Invincible at the Gala Theatre in Durham. On Saturday Jodie Prenger performs Tell Me on a Sunday.

On Saturday, Big Telly Theatre Company presents Puckoon, based on the book by Spike Milligan, at Middlesbrough Theatre.

On Wednesday Sleight of Hands, a dark high energy piece of dance theatre, comes to ARC Stockton (a “pay what you decide” event).

On Wednesday Phoenix Dance Theatre brings a triple bill of Undivided Loves, Until. With/Out.Enough and Bloom to Darlington Civic, followed on Thursday by Jodie Prenger in Tell Me on a Sunday.

Full-mask company Vamos Theatre, in a co-commission with London International Mime Festival, presents The Best Thing at the Georgian Theatre Royal on Tuesday.

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap comes to Harrogate Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday.

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