From Monday to Saturday, Vulcan 7, a new comedy about the actor’s life written by and co-starring Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer, comes to Newcastle Theatre Royal.
From Tuesday until 20 October, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Royal & Derngate Northampton, and Northern Stage co-production in association with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones plays in Stage 1 at Northern Stage. In Stage 2 from Tuesday until Saturday at 7:45 is Katori Hall’s play about Dr Martin Luther King, The Mountaintop. Then on Friday in Stage 3 (8:00), Lee Martin for Gag Reflex in Association with Geoff Rowe presents Rob Kemp: The Elvis Dead, cult classic horror movie Evil Dead 2 reinterpreted through the songs of Elvis Presley.
At Alphabetti on Wednesday, it’s the Write Something Showcase, 14 new plays in an evening of rehearsed readings from plays developed over The Write Something Workshops for the last six weeks. On Thursday, Northumberland Theatre Company (NTC) presents Heartspur, an evening of Hippy Hippy Shakespeare in which we follow the story of Harry Hotspur set in gangland Newcastle in 1963. Finally on Saturday, it’s Write Faster in which three writers together write a new play—while it is being performed.
Scamp Theatre’s Stick Man comes to the Tyne Theatre and Opera House from Thursday to Saturday at various times. There will be a relaxed performance on Friday at 10:30.
Cast presents The Last Seam at The Peacock in High Street West, Sunderland. This event is part of Sunderland Stages.
Rumpus Theatre brings The Devil’s Bride, based on the gothic horror story by Sheridan Le Fanu, to the Customs House in South Shields on Tuesday.
We Are Brontë—Morecambe and Wise meets David Lynch—presented by Publick Transport comes to the Queen’s Hall in Hexham on Friday.
Northumberland Theatre Company (NTC) brings Heartspur to Bishop Auckland Town Hall on Wednesday.
The Nightmare Room, a new thriller by John Goodrum based on the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is at Billingham Forum on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Stick Man is at Middlesbrough Theatre on Monday, followed by The Devil’s Bride on Thursday.
RedCape Theatre’s Thunder Road, which takes as its inspirations the quintessentially British First Aid training course and the iconic feminist road movie Thelma and Louise, comes to ARC Stockton at 7:00 on Thursday. Then on Saturday at 11:30 and 2:30, Half Moon and Tangled Feet present Butterflies, in which three friends embark on an exciting adventure to chase their butterflies away. This show is aimed at ages 3 to 8.
Rock of Ages comes to Darlington Hippodrome from Monday to Saturday.
We Are Brontë is at the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond on Thursday.
All-female theatre company Smashing Mirrors presents Three Emos in The Studio at Harrogate Theatre on Monday. The Harrogate Comedy Festival starts on Tuesday with an already sold-out gig by Sara Pascoe and runs until 20 October.