Dirty Dancing returns to Newcastle’s Theatre Royal from Monday to Saturday.
Before (the line is lost), a one woman show about Cosplay and growing up on the internet, is in Stage 3 at Northern Stage on Thursday. Then, on Friday and Saturday, Zendeh begins its tour of Transit.
On Friday and Saturday, there is a script-in-hand rehearsed reading of Each Piece, a new verbatim play about dementia, at Live Theatre.
The Circus of Horrors: The Never-ending Nightmare comes to the Tyne Theatre and Opera House on Friday and Saturday.
Alphabetti Theatre presents its monthly Alphabetti Soup on Saturday.
Sunderland Stages brings The Chef Show from Ragged Edge Productions to The Funky Indian Restaurant in Borough Road in Sunderland on Tuesday.
An Evening with Savvy B, a one-woman comic show about drinking written and performed by Hannah Walker, comes to the Customs House in South Shields on Thursday.
On Monday at the Gala in Durham, Jane Arnfield performs her one-woman show The Tin Ring, the story of Zdenka Fantlova, one of the handful of Holocaust survivors still alive today.
The Chef Show comes to Bishop Auckland Town Hall on Wednesday.
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt is at Billingham Forum from Sunday to Tuesday (various times). It is followed on Thursday by The Circus of Horrors: The Never-ending Nightmare.
One-woman mental health drama Butterfly comes to ARC Stockton on Thursday and on Saturday at 11.30 and 2.30 Wriggle Dance Theatre presents The Colour of Me for 3- to 7-year-olds.
Digging the Dirt by multi story, described as "a moving mix of fable and political commentary", comes to the Friends' Meeting House in Skinnergate, Darlington, on Wednesday. Free performance, followed by a collection. To book, email [email protected].