Mamma Mia! opens on Tuesday and runs until 15 April at Newcastle Theatre Royal.
Jonny and the Baptists – Eat the Poor comes to Northern Stage on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal present E M Forster’s The Machine Stops, and from Thursday to Saturday Gecko presents The Wedding.
This week sees Moving Parts, the Newcastle Puppetry Festival, coming to the city. There are performances at Northern Stage—Death Puppet Klezma Jam on Thursday, The Marked on Friday (see our news story) and The Seas of Organillo on Saturday—and at Cobalt Studios—with Boris & Sergey’s Vaudevillian Adventure on Monday, Sex & Puppets and Puppet Cabaret on Tuesday and The Parachute on Thursday.
On Friday at Dance City 2Faced Dance presents Run, a triple bill choreographed by Tamsin Fitzgerald, Lenka Vagnerova and Rebecca Evans with original music by Angus MacRae and Tomas Vychytil.
On Tuesday Lo-Giudice Dance brings Savages to Alnwick Playhouse.
On Wednesday Gonzo Moose presents The Thing That Came from Over There!, inspired by the Horror movies of the '50s, at the Queen’s Hall in Hexham.
On Saturday at 3PM, Kitchen Zoo brings The Owl and the Pussycat (for ages 3 to 7) to Seaton Delaval Arts Centre.
At Middlesbrough Theatre on Saturday at 2PM, Les Petits Theatre Company, sister company of Les Enfants Terribles, presents David Walliams’s The First Hippo on the Moon (for ages 3+).
On Wednesday at 7PM at ARC Stockton, Levantes Dance Theatre presents The Band.
The Thing That Came from Over There! comes to the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond on Thursday.
The Owl and the Pussycat comes to Saltburn Community and Arts Association at 2PM on Saturday.
Middle Ground Theatre presents the world stage première of The Verdict by Barry Reed, adapted by Margaret May Hobbs and starring Clive Mantle and Jack Shepherd to Harrogate Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday.