An Officer and a Gentleman the Musical, featuring hits from the 80s, comes to Newcastle’s Theatre Royal from Monday to Saturday.
At Live Theatre on Saturday and Sunday at 7:00, stand-up poet Kate Fox and actor Joanna Holden explore the Northern women you’ve heard of (and the ones you haven’t) in a thought-provoking show, Where There’s Muck There’s Bras. Free (advanced booking required) as part of the Great Exhibition of the North.
Canny Craic brings The Butcher’s Bill to Alphabetti Theatre in Newcastle on Wednesday and Thursday.
Cirque Berserk! comes to the Tyne Theatre and Opera House from Thursday to Sunday (various times).
Fertile Ground brings Fully Grounded to Dance City on Saturday.
This Is Elvis runs at Sunderland Empire from Monday to Saturday.
The Butcher’s Bill is at Arts Centre Washington on Thursday.
Mixed Bag presents Below the Stones, a play with song and movement, set over 4000 years ago, in the Henry Travers Studio at The Malting in Berwick at 7:00 on Wednesday.
The Butcher’s Bill is at The Exchange in North Shields on Friday.
Quantum Theatre presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Billingham Forum on Thursday, and then, on Sunday, Grumpy Old Women—Jenny Eclair, Dillie Keane & Lizzie Roper—come To the Rescue.
Dirty Dusting is at Middlesbrough Theatre on Sunday.
On Tuesday (7:00) and Wednesday (2:00 and 7:00) at ARC Stockton, Umar Butt presents Alex and Eliza. As a girl, she lived through the death and destruction of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, but now Zubair’s grandmother is like everyone else’s grandmother. She had lived in the same house on the same street for 40 years. Nothing out of the ordinary—until she gets on a plane to visit Zubair…
From Tuesday to Saturday, Joe Pasquale, Sarah Earnshaw and Susie Blake star in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em at Harrogate Theatre. In the Studio from Thursday to Saturday is 100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace. Following her accident, Kat is struggling with the basics of everyday life. As her reality blurs with fantasy we begin to explore and experience her anxieties and fears, often reflected through her imagination.