Mary Poppins opens at the Theatre Royal Newcastle on Friday and runs until 29 October.
LUNG Theatre’s The 56 runs at Live Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Friday and Saturday English Youth Ballet brings Giselle to the Tyne Theatre and Opera House.
Rosa Postlethwaite & Hannah Walker present An Evening with Savvy B—about drinking!—at Alphabetti Theatre from Monday to Saturday. These are Pay What You Feel performances.
Sister Act runs at Sunderland Empire from Monday to Saturday.
Letters to Myself, a humorous look at the best advice we never had, comes to Arts Centre Washington on Thursday.
On Friday the Six Twenty presents Fans at Alnwick Playhouse, a Pay What You Decide performance.
On Wednesday at the Queen’s Hall in Hexham, the November Club will share its work in progress, Beyond the End of the Road, a new musical for Northumberland.
From Thursday until 17 September, Durham’s Gala Theatre presents its in-house production The Fighting Bradfords, the story of the sons of a County Durham family during World War 1.
At ARC Stockton from Monday to Saturday STEELWORKS presents Gordon Steel’s Grow up Grandad and on Tuesday and Wednesday the Six Twenty presents Fans.