What's on in the North East

Published: 18 June 2017
Reporter: Peter Lathan

Sister Act (Theatre Royal, Newcastle)
Dreamboats and Petticoats (Sunderland Empire)
Burton (Queen's Hall, Hexham)
Golem (Harrogate Theatre) Credit: Bernhardt Müller

Sister Act, starring Alexandra Burke and directed by Craig Revel Horwood, comes to Newcastle Theatre Royal from Monday to Saturday.

The Filleting Machine is at Byker & Heaton Union Club, Newcastle, on Saturday.

On Friday, The November Club's Beyond the End of the Road is at Shilbottle Village Hall, Northumberland.

Beyond the End of the Road moves to Bardon Mill Village Hall on Sunday.

Dreamboats and Petticoats returns to Sunderland Empire from Monday to Saturday.

Matchbox Theatre brings Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime to Arts Centre Washington on Friday and Saturday.

At 4PM on Saturday at The Word in South Shields, there will be a script-in-hand performance of Jobling, a new musical by Tom Kelly and Steve Thompson about miner William Jobling who was hung and gibbeted for the murder of a magistrate near Jarrow in 1832.

On Sunday Dryad Productions presents Rebecca Vaughan in Austen's Women at the Customs House in South Shields.

Damp Knight Improv presents Alien Abducktion at Alnwick Playhouse on Friday.

Written by Gwynne Edwards, directed by Gareth Armstrong and performed by Rhodri Miles, Burton comes to the Green Room at the Queen’s Hall in Hexham on Saturday. This show is almost sold out.

Stand Up, Stand Up, Jim Cartwight’s latest play, comes to Middlesbrough Theatre from Wednesday to Friday.

At ARC Stockton on Thursday Gillie Kleiman presents Recreation, a dance piece about the things that we do that aren't work, or that aren't quite work, about caring, about cooking, about sex, about gardening and meditating and singing in the kitchen and playing 5-a-side, and, of course, about dancing. Then on Friday, Upstart Theatre presents a preview of a new play, Marco. In 1998, while Marco Pantani was winning the Tour de France, Simon Jones was racing his brother on second-hand bikes. Six years later, Marco committed suicide after being caught cheating. Simon, armed only with an inflated sense of his own ability and his junior cycling proficiency badge, tells the story.

At The Witham in Barnard Castle on Friday at 1:45, Compagnie Animotion presents The War of The Buttons, a tale of squabbles, scuffles… and buttons for ages 3 to 11.

From Wednesday to Saturday at Harrogate Theatre, 1927 presents Golem, following an international tour and a West End run.

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