Cilla, the musical stage version of the ITV series, comes to Newcastle’s Theatre Royal from Tuesday to Saturday.
At Alphabetti this week, Jamal Harewood presents The Privileged from Tuesday to Friday (see our news story), then on Saturday at 6:30 in the Rehearsal Space, the Six Twenty present work-in-progress extracts of their new show Busy, a look at our addiction to being busy and our endless battle with wanting to do more. This is a Pay What You Feel show. Beginning at 8:00 and running until 1:00 in the theatre, SPECULO Entertainment presents Studio SPECULO, "an evening of thrills and spills, cocktails, glitter, giant mirror balls and circus performers wooing and wowing the crowd with their heart-stopping acts".
On Friday at the Tyne Theatre and Opera House, Suggs presents What a King Cnut. A life in the Realm of Madness… in which the Madness frontman asks, “in this business in which you can be washed up at any minute, how have I managed to get away with it for so long?”
On Saturday, The Circus of Horrors brings its latest show, Voodoo, to Sunderland Empire.
On Sunday at 1:00 and 3:00, Hiccup Theatre brings The Gingerbread Man (for age 3+) to Arts Centre Washington.
Verve, the postgraduate performance company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, brings new dance work by choreographers Hannes Langolf (Germany) and Sita Ostheimer (Germany), a reworking of the award-winning Riders by Lenka Vagnerova (Czech Republic) and a new work by Verve Artistic Director Matthew Robinson (UK), his first for the company, to the Queen’s Hall in Hexham on Tuesday. Then on Thursday at 1:30 and 4:30 Kitchen Zoo presents The Owl and the Pussycat with puppets and live music for 3- to 7-year-olds.
At 2:00 and 6:00 on Sunday, Immersion Theatre presents a new musical adaptation of The Jungle Book at the Playhouse Whitley Bay.
Kitchen Zoo brings The Owl and the Pussycat to Bishop Auckland Town Hall on Friday at 10:30.
The Circus of Horrors’ Voodoo is at Billingham Forum on Monday.
From Wednesday to Saturday, Less is MORE Productions and Middlesbrough Theatre present The Revengers at Middlesbrough Theatre.
At ARC Stockton on Thursday, Proto-type Theater presents The Audit (or Iceland, a modern myth), Proto-type's second theatrical work examining contemporary politics. The rich have got richer, the middle’s squeezed tight, and the poor are being dragged ever downwards; thie new play tells the story of how a nation raised their voices in protest, and how collective power can move a mountain—even if only a little. Then on Saturday at 11:30 and 2:30, The Gingerbread Man comes to ARC.
From Wednesday to Sunday (various times), David Walliams’s Awful Auntie, produced by Birmingham Stage Company, comes to Darlington Hippodrome.
On Sunday, RSC actor Ian Hughes presents his one-man show, The Dramatic Exploits of Edmund Kean, which charts the rise and decline of the great 19th century actor.
In Harrogate Theatre’s Studio on Monday, The Pretend Men present Police Cops in Space which sold out its entire run at The Pleasance Dome at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe. Then on Thursday and Friday in the Main House, LipService revives its spoof Brontë show Withering Looks. In The Studio on Thursday, one-woman-show Alaska, inspired by writer-performer Cheryl Martin’s poetry collection, is a trip to the moon, with singing and dancing thrown in: one woman’s extraordinary story of how she survived growing up with severe depression.