Rambert returns to the Theatre Royal in Newcastle from Tuesday to Thursday with a revival of Christopher Bruce’s Ghost Dances and new works by Ben Duke and Andonis Foniadakis.
At Northern Stage, NORTH’s production of The War of the Worlds continues in Stage 3 until Saturday while Third Angel’s The Department of Distractions continues in Stage 2, also until Saturday. From Wednesday to Saturday in Stage 1 Complicité presents Bryony Kimmings’s A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer.
On Thursday at Alphabetti, Twisting Ducks and Gateshead People present We have something to say, an evening of poetry and spoken word from people with learning disabilities and autism. Then on Thursday FLIM NITE presents Jurassic Park, when the audience is invited to “watch as our acts distort a friendly Spielberg dino-romp into something silly, beautiful or unrecognizable for your viewing pleasure.”
On Thursday, The Circus of Horrors – The Voodoo VaudEvil comes to the Tyne Theatre and Opera House.
On Saturday, Flex Dance, a professional dance company of artists with a learning disability, autism or both, brings a triple bill, cAty wOMpuS and Other Works, to Dance City.
Shrek the Musical continues at Sunderland Empire until Sunday.
On Saturday, Kitchen Zoo brings The Tin Foil Astronaut to Arts Centre Washington at 11:00 and 2:00 (for ages 3 to 7).
Wisdom of a Fool, the story of Norman Wisdom, comes to the Customs House in South Shields at 7:00 on Sunday.
At Middlesbrough Theatre on Wednesday, Alex Walton performs Adrian Berry’s From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, the life of a devoted Bowie fan, and on Friday Ballet Theatre UK presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Olly Hawes presents The Absolute Truth about Absolutely Everything, a black comedy about a crisis of masculinity, performed by the male writer and a completely unprepared guest female performer, at ARC Stockton on Wednesday at 7:00. A Pay What You Feel performance.
From Tuesday to Saturday, the Dusty Springfield musical, Son of a Preacher Man, is at Darlington Hippodrome.
Townsend Productions in association with Harrogate Theatre presents We are the Lions, Mr Manager!, the story of Jayaben Desai, leader of the 1976-78 Grunwick Film Processing Factory Strike, in the Harrogate Theatre Studio from Monday to Saturday.