Mary Poppins continues at the Theatre Royal Newcastle until Saturday.
There are two sold-out shows at Newcastle’s Northern Stage this week: Bare-Toed Dance Company’s Downside-Up on Monday and Tuesday and on Thursday and Friday Oily Cart presents Mirror Mirror. Both shows are aimed at children. Then on Friday at 7PM and Saturday at 1PM and 5PM, Jackson's Lane presents Lost In Translation Circus’ The Hogwallops.
At Live Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday Farnham Maltings presents NE writer Zoe Cooper’s Jess and Joe Forever.
From Thursday until 5 November, Alphabetti Theatre presents The Rooms 2016, three short one-man plays by Laura Lindow (A Terrorist’s Guide to Romance), Sarah Gonnet (Word Salad) and Becci Sharrock (Night Trade)—a promenade production with each play performed in a separate room.
At Dance City on Wednesday at 10:30 and 2PM Moxie Brawl invites children of 4+ to join dancing scientists Volta Flatulence, Caroline Trumpface and Daisy Parphead welcome in the Windibops lab to investigate flatulence and global warming. On Friday (7:30) and Saturday (8PM), Joli Vyann’s Stateless explores ideas of immigration, journeys, humanity and tolerance, taking audiences on a physical and emotional journey into the lives and fate of people crossing borders.
Twenty Seven Live’s Wytch at the Castle Keep in Newcastle runs until 31 October (no shows on 29 and 30).
On Saturday, Ellen Kent brings her production of Aida to Sunderland Empire.
Sunderland Stages presents Turned on its Head’s production of Sponge, a dance show suitable for babies of 6 months and children up to 4 years, in the Meeting Room at Sunderland City Library on Tuesday (11AM and 2PM).
Blunderbus Theatre Company presents The Sorcerer's Apprentice (for age 3+) at Arts Centre Washington on Thursday at 11AM and 2PM.
In a busy week at South Shields Customs House Rumpus Theatre presents The Haunting of Exham Priory on Monday, then on Thursday LipService Theatre presents Mr Darcy Loses the Plot. On Sunday and Monday 31 October (various times) it’s the story of Wendy the Witch and the Mummy’s Curse, aimed at the under-7s.
London Contemporary Theatre Company brings The Teddy Bears Picnic, for children over 2, to Alnwick Playhouse on Tuesday at 11AM and 1PM. Then on Saturday at 11AM and 2:30PM, Puppetship presents In A Nutshell for ages 3 to 6.
On Sunday, Mad Alice Theatre Company presents one-woman show She Wins All the Races at the Phoenix in Blyth.
The Maltings & Rocket Opera presents Heinrich Marschner’s The Vampyre at The Maltings, Berwick, on Saturday in the Henry Travers Studio.
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic comes to the Queen’s Hall in Hexham on Wednesday. Then on Friday Rani Moorthy performs one-woman show Whose Sari Now? and on Saturday at 1PM and 3PM, Wriggle Dance Theatre presents The Colour of Me for 3- to 7-year-olds.
At the Playhouse Whitley Bay on Tuesday (11:30 and 2:30), the Panto Company presents The Little Mermaid, a “musical pantomime adventure.”
On Friday Open Clasp brings Key Change to Durham’s Gala Theatre.
Lyn Paul stars in Bill Kenwright’s touring production of Blood Brothers at Billingham Forum from Tuesday to Saturday.
The Little Mermaid comes to Middlesbrough Theatre on Monday at 1PM and 3PM, followed on Wednesday (7:30) by The Haunting of Exham Priory.
On Thursday and Friday (11:30 and 2:30) Garlic Theatre presents Jack and The Beans Talk for age 3 to 7 at ARC Stockton.
Opera come to Harrogate Theatre this week as English Touring Opera performs Monteverdi’s Ulysses’ Homecoming on Friday and Cavalli’s La Calisto on Saturday.