The National Theatre’s production of Macbeth comes to Newcastle Theatre Royal from Tuesday to Saturday.
In Stage 2 at Northern Stage Under Milk Wood continues until Saturday. In Stage 1 from Tuesday to Saturday English Touring Theatre presents Othello and in Stage 3 on Thursday Jake Jarratt performs Blokes, Fellas, Geezers and on Saturday Scott Turnbull performs his latest piece, The SMOG.
At Live Theatre She Productions present It’s Different for Girls from Tuesday to Thursday, the story of what happened when, in 1965, five young women from Hull decided to start a girl band. On Sunday there’s another edition of the regular series presenting short new plays by NE writers, Ten Minutes To… This time it’s Ten Minutes to Light It Up.
From Tuesday to Saturday at Alphabetti Neal Pike & Matt Miller present Five Years, a show about school, escaping and a world that puts you into boxes.
On Friday at the Tyne Theatre and Opera House the Russian State Ballet presents The Nutcracker.
At Dance City on Friday James Wilton Dance presents The Storm. This performance is sold out.
Miss Saigon continues at Sunderland Empire until Saturday.
On Tuesday and Wednesday Red Ladder and Leeds Playhouse present The Damned United at The Royalty Theatre, Sunderland, as part of Sunderland Stages.
Another Sunderland Stages production comes to The Peacock in High Street West on Friday when The Six Twenty in association with Live Theatre present Fans.
A Paines Plough and Birmingham Repertory Theatre production in association with Latitude Festival, POP MUSIC, comes to Arts Centre Washington on Thursday.
In the Studio at The Phoenix Theatre in Blyth on Thursday Jonathan Goodwin performs Terror on the Tracks, an original stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Signal-Man and other tales of menace and melodrama.
On Tuesday and Wednesday in the Green Room at the Queen’s Hall in Hexham open Clasp premières don’t forget the birds, a follow-up to the phenomenally successful Key Change in which one of the women seen leaving prison at the end of that play shows us what happened next as she and her daughter were reunited. Both shows are sold out.
On Saturday Cloud Nine Theatre Company celebrates its 20th anniversary at The Exchange, North Shields, with two plays from its past - The Battling Ettricks and Making Plans for Jessica – along with music, food and other events.
On Sunday Dyad Productions bring The Time Machine to Middlesbrough Theatre.
Tam Tam Theatre presents Leaf, a show for 0 – 3 years, at 10:30, 12:30 and 2:30 at ARC Stockton on Saturday.
The Full Monty comes to Darlington Hippodrome from Monday to Saturday.
Slingsby presents Oscar Wilde’s The Young King, for age 8+, at The Hullabaloo in Darlington on Wednesday and Thursday (various times).
On Thursday Fuel presents Summit, in which, in a blend of languages including fully integrated BSL, three performers tell a story of an international meeting called in response to a crisis from three perspectives, at Saltburn Community Theatre.
The Russian State Ballet comes to the Royal Hall in Harrogate on Monday with Swan Lake and on Tuesday with Giselle.
When We Were Brothers, a new play, set in a bar, about being a man, mental health and friendship, is at Hales Bar, Harrogate’s oldest pub, on Tuesday. Tickets are available from Harrogate Theatre’s box office.