Heartbeat comes to the Theatre Royal in Newcastle from Monday to Saturday.
Noises Off continues in Stage 1 at Northern Stage until Saturday. In Stage 3 on Tuesday and Wednesday, Josh Coates presents Get Yourself Together and on Thursday at 7:00 Cap-a-Pie and researchers from Newcastle University bring another Performing Research, three new short pieces of theatre created with researchers from the university about their work.
At Live Theatre from Thursday to Saturday, Telltale in association with LittleMighty presents Petrification, a new play by Zoe Cooper.
At Alphabetti this week, Write on Tap returns with Bankers, new short plays about the financial crash of 2008 by Stuart Nimmo, Kim Spence, Jo McCullock and Ben Dickenson, on Friday and on Saturday the May edition of Alphabetti Soup includes another new play, The Soup Boudoir by Rowan McCabe.
This week at Dance City, Fertile Ground presents its triple bill Dancing the Road on Tuesday and on Thursday it’s the turn of Macho, a première from the all-male Hit The Ground Running Dance Theatre Company. On Friday and Saturday in the Castle Keep, Junk Ensemble presents Bird with Boy at 6PM and 8PM (tickets from Dance City).
American Idiot comes to Sunderland Empire from Tuesday to Saturday.
Sunfest, Sunderland Uni’s Performing Arts drama showcase, ends on Thursday with King Lear and on Saturday with The Tempest at Arts Centre Washington.
The postgraduate performance company of London Contemporary Dance School, Edge, comes to the Queen’s Hall in Hexham on Tuesday. Then on Thursday, Stan’s Café presents Made Up.
Fertile Ground takes its triple bill Dancing the Road to The Witham in Barnard Castle on Friday.
On Saturday (12:30PM) and Sunday (11:30 and 2:30), Blunderbus brings The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Billingham Forum.
Reform Theatre presents John Godber’s The Debt Collectors at Middlesbrough Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday.
Stan’s Café’s Made Up is at ARC Stockton on Tuesday and Wednesday.
From Wednesday to Saturday, David Walliams’s Gangsta Granny comes to Darlington Civic (Tuesday to Saturday at 7PM, Wednesday to Friday at 10:30AM, Saturday at 2:30PM).
Vienna Festival Ballet presents Swan Lake at the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond on Friday at 7:30. At 5:00 on Thursday, audiences can attend watch a class and a rehearsal and ask questions.
On Thursday, Daniel Bye presents Going Viral in the Studio at Harrogate Theatre.