The Customs House, South Shields, has announced its January to April 2014 season. Theatrical highlights are:
- Sell a Door Theatre in Kidnapped, adapted by Ivan Wilkinson, on 23 January
- The Tin Ring - An Audience with Zdenka Pantlova on 28 January, to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day
- Tea with the Old Queen, a one-man show based i-on the fictitious diaries of the "old queen" William Tallon, for forty years page and then steward to the Queen Mother (part of LGBT History Month) on 6 February
- James Wilton Dance in Last Man Standing on 8 February
- Away from Home, a one-man show looking at homosexuality in professional football (part of LGBT History Month) on 13 February
- OddManOut presents Weather to Fly, a play which looks at the courage needed to say "This is what I am," on 15 February
- The Girl and the Unicorn, a play by Tom Kelly aimed at the over-3s, is a Customs House production and runs from 18 to 20 February
- On 21 and 22 February, Vamos Theatre presents Finding Joy, a masked play about memory, aging, love and joy
- The Live Theatre production of Michael Chaplin's Tyne comes to the Customs House from 26 February to 1 March
- DUSC Dance Company presents Dimension 43 on 18 March
- Pete Peverley performs his one-man show The Bobby Thomason Story on 20 March
- Icarus Theatre Collective returns on 27 March with Othello
- Aimed at age 3 to 7 Who's Been Sitting in My Chair? is on 29 March