The Paper Birds’ Mobile continues in the Live Garden at Live Theatre until Sunday (various times).
Theatre Hoodang, formerly NORTH2016, launches its new incarnation with a party at Alphabetti on Wednesday. On Thursday, the venue presents a rehearsed reading of Head of Research by Stuart Nimmo, a satirical black comedy, and on Saturday it’s the June edition of Alphabetti Soup, which features a new play by Grace Curtis, Mr Man.
The Sound of Music comes to Sunderland Empire from Tuesday to Saturday.
Cloud Nine opens its short tour of The End of the Pier by NE writer Neil Armstrong at the Memorial Hall in Wallsend on Monday and will then visit the Exchange in North Shields on Tuesday, Hartlepool’s Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday, Arts Centre Washington on Thursday and Durham’s Gala Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
On Friday and Saturday, The Big Goodbye by local writer Wayne Miller plays in the Studio at the Customs House in South Shields.
This week, Zoe Cooper’s Petrification tours to The Mitre Inn at Knaresborough at 6PM on Monday, The White Horse in Ripon at 8PM on Tuesday and The Tap and Spile in Harrogate at 6PM on Wednesday. Tickets can be booked through Harrogate Theatre. In the theatre itself from Thursday to Saturday will be the professional world première of Busker—the Musical.