At Newcastle Theatre Royal on Friday and Saturday, Milonga, a celebration of the street dance culture of Argentina choreographed by Sadler's Wells Associate Artist, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, mixes tango and contemporary dance.
From Wednesday to Saturday, the Jim Cartwright Theatre Company brings the writer’s latest play Stand Up, Stand Up to Northern Stage. Then on Thursday in Stage 3, Cap-a-Pie presents its latest collaboration with Newcastle University researchers, three short plays focusing on the impact on genetic testing on family relationships, identity and sexuality, and the future of work and automation.
On Friday and Saturday at Sunderland Empire, English Youth Ballet presents Swan Lake, performed by a corps de ballet of young dancers from the region with a professional cast of principal dancers.
At the Customs House in South Shields on Friday, Blowin’ a Hooley Theatre presents Tom Hadaway’s The Filleting Machine.
Peppermint Muse Theatre presents The Colours of Kenny Roach in the Henry Travers Studio at The Maltings in Berwick on Friday.
On Saturday and Sunday, Horrible Histories—The Best of Barmy Britain comes to The Playhouse Whitley Bay.
On Tuesday, Oddsocks brings its mods and rockers musical production of Romeo and Juliet to Billingham Forum.
On Saturday at 2PM, children’s show The Girl and the Giraffe comes to Hartlepool Town Hall Theatre.
A murder mystery, The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths, is at Hartlepool Central Library at 7PM on Monday. Tickets from ARC Stockton.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar comes to Middlesbrough Theatre on Sunday at 2PM.
At ARC Stockton on Thursday, Two Destination Language presents Declining Solo, which, combining text with choreography, video and specially commissioned music, is about the relationship between a father and daughter, between a person and their culture. (This is a Pay What You Decide production.)
Leeds Library Theatre Company brings two of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads—A Lady of Letters and Bed Among the Lentils—to Saltburn Arts on Friday.
Strictly Murder, with soap stars Brian Capron, Corrinne Wicks and Gary Turner, is at Harrogate Theatre from Tuesday to Thursday.