Blood Brothers returns to the Theatre Royal in Newcastle from Monday to Saturday.
In Stage 3 at Northern Stage on Tuesday and Wednesday, Fuel presents Portrait and on Thursday in Stage 1 Lakin McCarty and Mark Thomas in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse present Mark Thomas in The Red Shed, a story of “strikes, fights, dinner ladies and commies. Crap beer, great beer, burgers and burger slingers. Pickets, placards, friendship, love, history, dreams and above all, remembering.”
On Saturday (at 1PM and 4PM) and Sunday (10AM and 1PM) at the Tyne Theatre and Opera House presents children’s show Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom.
National Dance Company Wales comes to Dance City on Saturday at 8PM and Sunday at 4PM with a double bill of The Green House and Profundis.
Birmingham Royal Ballet presents Cinderella at Sunderland Empire from Thursday to Saturday.
2Magpies presents Ventoux at Arts Centre Washington on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Sunderland Stages presents Ridiculusmus in Give Me Your Love, a “compassionate and innovative look at mental health and Post Traumatic Stress,” at Sunderland College’s Bede Campus.
Holmes and Watson: The Farewell Tour comes to the Customs House in South Shields on Wednesday.
At Alnwick Playhouse this week, Northumberland Theatre Company presents Dracula... The Travesty! on Thursday and on Friday, Théâtre Sans Frontières presents David Almond’s Heaven Eyes.
On Tuesday, Morgan and West bring their Parlour Tricks, a “plateful of illusion and impossibility, all served with wit, charm and no small amount of panache by two dashing chaps,” to the Queen’s Hall in Hexham.
Northern Ballet brings Goldilocks and the Three Bears to Durham’s Gala Theatre on Wednesday at 2PM, 4PM and 6PM.
On Saturday, Blackeyed Theatre presents Theatre: Frankenstein at Bishop Auckland Town Hall.
Dreamboats and Petticoats comes to Billingham Forum from Monday to Saturday.
Northern Ballet’s Goldilocks and the Three Bears is at Middlesbrough Theatre on Tuesday; then on Thursday, Paines Plough and Middlesbrough Theatre in association with less is MORE present Come to Where I’m From in which four Boro playwrights—Tim Foley, Scarlet Pink, Gordon Steel, David Tuffnell—present short plays about their home.
Heaven Eyes comes to ARC in Stockton at 2:30PM on Saturday.
On Saturday at 11PM, Kitchen Zoo brings The Owl and the Pussycat to The Witham in Barnard Castle.
Narvik, a new play with songs by Lizzie Nunnery which fuses live folk music and new writing, plays in Harrogate Theatre’s Studio from Tuesday to Saturday while in the Main House from Wednesday to Saturday The Original Theatre Company and The Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds present Torben Betts’s Invincible.