At the Theatre Royal in Newcastle from Monday to Saturday is Simon Reade’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Hedda Gabler, this is not a love story begins previews in Stage 1 at Northern Stage and runs until 8 March. On Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:45, Fuel presents Fiction by David Rosenberg and Glen Neath.
On Tuesday—Valentine’s Day—Alphabetti presents a special Valentine edition of Write Faster in which the aim is for the three writers to write a brand new play in front of the audience. The writers will hand each line, stage direction and anything else they fancy to the actors for them to act out, each reacting to what has gone before.
On Thursday, RashDash and Northern Stage in association with Soho Theatre present Two Man Show at Arts Centre Washington.
On Tuesday, Sunderland Stages presents Adam Berry’s From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads at the Royalty Theatre.
Five Dead No Bodies, a new comedy by Susan Wear and Rob Lawson, comes to the Customs House in South Shields from Wednesday to Saturday.
On Friday the Phoenix Theatre in Blyth presents An Audience with Lesley Garrett, an evening of song, reminiscences and chat.
On Thursday at 7PM, the Tideline Runners Theatre Company presents Tideline Runners: One Big Lie at The Maltings in Berwick.
Blackeyed Theatre brings its production of Frankenstein, adapted by John Ginman from Mary Shelley’s novel, to Bishop Auckland Town Hall on Saturday.
PMA Productions brings a new version of Aladdin to Billingham Forum from Wednesday to Sunday.
less is MORE presents Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit at Middlesbrough Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday.
Theatre Hullabaloo’s Spirits of the Sea is at Hartlepool’s Town Hall Theatre on Saturday at 1:30 and Sunday at 11AM. For age 6+.
On Friday and Saturday at 11:30 and 2:30, using puppetry, movement and trapeze, Compagnie Animotion presents The Musicians of Bremen, for ages 3 to 7, at ARC Stockton.
On Thursday, From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads comes to the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, followed on Saturday by LipService with Mr Darcy Loses the Plot.
In Harrogate this week, the ARC Stockton Cultural Shift Production of Butterfly, written and directed by Vici Wreford-Sinnott, is at the Royal Hall on Wednesday and LipService’s Mr Darcy Loses the Plot is in the main house at Harrogate Theatre on Thursday and Friday. In the theatre’s Studio there are three productions in the Nothing to See Here series of plays exploring our bodies: on Thursday it’s The Eulogy of Toby Peach, a young man’s journey with cancer; on Friday, Getting Better Slowly, performed by Adam Pownall & Kitty Randle, tells the story of what happened when Adam found his body shutting down with Guillain Barré Syndrome, and on Saturday it’s A Place Called Happiness by Debs Gatenby.