Opera North returns to Newcastle’s Theatre Royal this week with Kurt Weill’s Street Scene on Tuesday and Friday, The Marriage of Figaro on Wednesday and Saturday and The Turn of the Screw on Thursday.
At Northern Stage this week from Wednesday to Saturday, The Faction brings its production of The Talented Mr Ripley to Stage 1, while on Wednesday at 6:30 in Stage 3, there's a double bill of SPACE: A Herstory by dandysocpic and *gender not included by Melody Sproates, co-produced with Curious Arts.
At Live Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, tiata fahodzi and Wrested Veil in association with Leeds Playhouse, Soho Theatre and Tara Finney Productions present Seeds. Written by Mel Pennant and shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award, Seeds tells the story of two mothers united in sorrow, sharing the hardship of protecting their sons—one in life and one in death.
Fitting continues at Alphabetti until Saturday (not Sunday or Monday).
On Wednesday at the Tyne Theatre and Opera House, the Russian State Opera presents Verdi's Aida, sung in Italian with English surtitles.
On Wednesday and Thursday at 7:00 at Gosforth Civic Theatre, Mortal Fools presents Melva, the story of a 10-year-old girl whose struggles with anxiety, or 'worrits' as she knows them, keep her from leaving the house.
At 7:30 on Thursday at Dance City, Geneva-based Beaver Dam Company presents a double bill. In FORWARD, the dancer is overwhelmed with the desire to keep moving forwards, an obsession brought to life through the body, while Into Outside explores the need to belong to a micro-group, and the importance of the individual to society.
At the Queen’s Hall in Hexham on Monday at 1:30 and 4:30, Opera North presents Dr Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham, an introduction to opera for ages 4 to 7. Then on Wednesday at 7:30, State of Grace performs its new dance piece, Doves, and on Thursday, in celebration of Women’s History Month 2020, Gazebo Theatre presents Wanted, which features an array of historical figures: Irena Sendler, who rescued more than 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation; Olive Morris, British Black Panther and avid activist for women and squatters’ rights; Phoolan Devi, the fearsome Bandit Queen, and a woman way ahead of her time, Dr James Barry.
Don’t Go Into The Cellar! presents Strictly Sherlock, three of Holmes's cases—The Sussex Vampire, The Creeping Man and The Devil’s Foot—scripted and performed by Jonathan Goodwin, at The Exchange, North Shields on Friday.
Green Carnation Theatre Company from Manchester brings Kevin Elyot's My Night with Reg to Durham's Gala Theatre on Thursday.
On Wednesday at 11:30, Opera North brings Green Eggs and Ham, opera for ages 4 to 7, to The Witham, Barnard Castle.
At 7:00 on Wednesday at ARC Stockton, Third Angel & Northern Stage present The Department of Distractions, a play about an organisation so clandestine you won’t have heard of them. Until now. They say their job is to plant stories in the world “to make life more interesting.” Others would argue that their job is as much to stop us looking in certain directions. Then on Saturday at 11:30 and 2:30, Inverted Theatre presents BOX, which, featuring impressive hand-balancing, playful acrobatics and a mysterious box of tricks, offers a tale about sibling connection, competition and compassion.
On Thursday at Middlesbrough Theatre, The Pantaloons present their version of Bleak House in which a company of five actor-musicians bring the novel’s cast of over 50 characters to life in a thrilling tale of love, skulduggery and spontaneous combustion… Then on Saturday, Steve Steinman’s Vampires Rock—Ghost Train comes to the venue.
On Monday at 8:00, Dad’s Army Radio Show comes to Darlington Hippodrome. Then on Thursday, BalletBoyz performs Deluxe in which Chinese dancer and choreographer Xie Xin (TAO Dance Theatre, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Eastman) creates a work set to an original score by composer Jiang Shao-feng, whilst Maxine Doyle (Punchdrunk) collaborates with jazz musician and composer Cassie Kinoshi of the Mercury-nominated SEED Ensemble.
On Saturday at 11:00 and 2:00, Lyngo Theatre brings Jack and the Beanstalk, for ages 3 to 8, to The Hullabaloo in Darlington.
LipService brings Strangers on a Train Set to The Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond on Friday.
At Harrogate Theatre on Monday, My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley, presented by fingersmiths in co-production with Sheffield Theatres and in partnership with New Wolsey Theatre, is performed in British Sign Language and spoken English and features a cast of one hearing and three deaf actors. In The Studio, on the same evening at 7:45, Dapertutto presents Lionman, a play about Leonard who works daily at his dreary job and nightly on his beloved film script, grappling with love, work pressures, an increasing discomfort with masculinity and his own irrepressible imagination. Finally on Friday in the Main House, Emergence, the postgraduate company of Joss Arnott Dance and the University of Salford, presents a Triple Bill of work by Wubkje Kuindersma, James Wilton and Joss Arnott.