Mary Poppins continues at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal until 29 October.
The Season Ticket, based on the novel which inspired the film Purely Belter, opens at Northern Stage on Friday and runs until 8 October.
Edfringe multi-award winner Spine comes to Live Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, and on Thursday and Friday Zoe Murtagh presents her one-woman show The Lamppost Petition.
Alphabetti Theatre presents its September Alphabetti Soup on Saturday: music, spoken word and theatre.
On Saturday the Rosie Kay Dance Company presents a double bill, Double Points: K and Motel, at Dance City.
Cats returns to Sunderland Empire from Monday to Saturday.
Unfolding Theatre’s Putting the Band Back Together comes to Arts Centre Washington on Thursday, part of the new season of Sunderland Stages.
On Tuesday, the Customs House presents An Encounter with Lindsay Kemp and on Thursday he will receive the Honorary Fellowship Award of the Customs House Academy which was established to recognise and honour the achievements of exceptional individuals with a significant connection to South Tyneside, who have made a major contribution to the world of Arts & Entertainment. Then on Friday and Saturday Steelworks Theatre Productions presents Grow Up Grandad.
At Alnwick Playhouse this week, children’s show Hey Presto! (for the under-7s) is on Thursday, followed on Friday by Under The Bed - A Fairytale For Grown Ups.
Under The Bed is at the Queen’s Hall in Hexham on Thursday.
At Middlesbrough Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday, less is MORE and Middlesbrough Theatre present Lee Mattinson’s Chalet Lines. Then on Sunday at 1PM and 3PM Scamp Theatre presents Stick Man for children aged 3+.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Zoe Murtagh’s The Lamppost Petition comes to ARC Stockton, followed on Thursday by Scott Turnbull with his one-man show Where Do All the Dead Pigeons Go?
At 2PM on Saturday, Cardboard Joe, a show for children aged 3 to 8, comes to the Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond.
From Tuesday to Saturday Amanda Whittington’s Be My Baby, starring Ruth Madoc, runs in the Main House at Harrogate Theatre. In the Studio on Wednesday and Thursday Icarus Theatre Collective presents The Trials of Galileo and on Friday and Saturday Tim Hardy performs his one-man show, H P Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.
At the Royal Hall in Harrogate on Wednesday, the Russian State Opera performs Bizet’s Carmen. Tickets are available from Harrogate Theatre.