What's on in the North East

Published: 5 March 2017
Reporter: Peter Lathan

Million Dollar Quartet
Savages (Dance City)
La Bohème (Sunderland Empire)
The Enormous Room (ARC Stockton)
Blind Date (The Witham, Barnard Castle)

Million Dollar Quartet, the musical inspired by the famous recording session that brought together Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time, comes to Newcastle’s Theatre Royal from Monday to Saturday.

It’s the last week of Northern Stage’s Queens of the North season, with Hedda Gabler, This Is Not a Love Story running on Tuesday (evening and matinée) and Wednesday (at 6PM) and Dr Frankenstein on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (with a matinée on Saturday).

Open Clasp is previewing its latest production, Sugar, which has been devised with women in HMP Low Newton, Women's Direct Access Homelessness Service and women on probation attending a Women’s Hub at West End Women & Girls Centre, at Live Theatre on Friday and Saturday.

On Tuesday and Wednesday at Alphabetti, Fuel presents An Evening With An Immigrant, written and performed by Inua Ellams. Saturday night sees the theatre’s closing party as it leaves the basement venue, running from 7:30 till late.

At Dance City on Saturday, Lo-Giudice Dance presents Savages, conjuring “a nameless beast lurking in the folklore, history and soil of the North.”

This week, Opera and Ballet International returns to Sunderland Empire with two Ellen Kent productions, Puccini’s La Bohème on Saturday and Verdi’s Nabucco on Sunday.

Butterfly, a one-woman show which tells the story of Beatrice who is sitting in isolation, waiting for the outcome of a forced mental health assessment, comes to Arts Centre Washington on Thursday.

Community production The Rock is at the Customs House in South Shields from Tuesday to Saturday.

On Friday, Dryad Productions presents Jane Eyre – An Autobiography at The Maltings in Berwick.

At the Queen’s Hall in Hexham this week, MultiStory Theatre presents Pericles—All at Sea, inspired by Shakespeare’s Pericles, in the Green Room Studio on Tuesday, and on Thursday Fuel presents An Evening with an Immigrant (now sold out).

On Tuesday, Phoenix Dance Theatre brings its triple bill of Calyx, Beast and Maybe Yes Maybe, Maybe No Maybe to Durham’s Gala Theatre.

On Wednesday, Northumberland Theatre Company brings Dracula, devised and created by NTC and writer Stewart Howson, to Bishop Auckland Town Hall.

On Friday, The Pantaloons present their “beautifully hilarious and delightfully innovative new adaptation” of Pride and Prejudice to Middlesbrough Theatre.

At ARC Stockton this week, Stopgap Dance presents The Enormous Room on Thursday and on Saturday at 11:30 and 2:30 new company Kitchen Zoo presents The Owl and the Pussycat, aimed at ages 3 to 7.

Les Bordeliques present Blind Date, in which a musician and a dancer embody three men and three women as they collide to form unlikely pairs, at The Witham in Barnard Castle on Wednesday.

Travelling Light performs Sammy and the Snow Leopard (for ages 5 to 10) at 2PM and 4PM on Saturday and 10:30 and 1:30 in the Art Gallery in the Crown Street Library, Darlington. Tickets are available from the Civic Theatre box office.

Jane Eyre—An Autobiography comes to the Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, on Wednesday.

Ventoux comes to Saltburn Community Theatre on Friday.

In Harrogate Theatre’s Studio on Friday and Saturday two performers—one Greek, one French—dance and shout, cry and sing, agree and disagree, about life in the Eurohouse. This production has been nominated for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with Form.

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