What's on in the North East

Published: 5 December 2021
Reporter: Peter Lathan

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Northern Stage) Credit: Pamela Raith Photography
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Sunderland Empire)
Hansel and Gretel (Arts Centre Washington)
Treasure Island (Consett Empire)

Newcastle Theatre Royal’s panto, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, continues until 9 January 2022.

At Northern Stage, the Christmas show, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, runs until 31 December.

Bonnie and Fanny's Christmas Spectacular, featuring Bonnie and the Bonnettes and Your Aunt Fanny, is at Live Theatre from Wednesday until 23 December.

10 Things to Do in a Small Cumbrian Town, a one-woman show by Hannah Sowerby, is at Alphabetti from Tuesday until 11 December.

Sleeping Beauty opens at the Tyne Theatre and Opera House on Friday and runs until 3 January.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs opens at Sunderland Empire on Friday and runs until 2 January.

Lyngo Theatre’s Hansel and Gretel runs at Arts Centre Washington from Thursday to Saturday (various times).

Rapunzel, the Customs House panto, continues until 6 January, 2022.

Mendes Management presents Beauty and the Beast at The Exchange, North Shields until 24 December.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Playhouse Whitley Bay runs until 2 January.

Snow White opens at The Maltings, Berwick, on Saturday and runs until 30 December (various times).

The Remarkable Robin Armstrong’s Extraordinary Christmas Adventure opens at The Queen’s Hall, Hexham on Friday and runs until 28 December (various times).

From Wednesday to Saturday at 7:15 Anti-Christmas, a "weird and dark" comedy, is at Laurels, Whitley Bay.

The Adventures of Robin Hood, the panto at Durham’s Gala Theatre, runs until 9 January.

Treasure Island, Consett Empire’s panto, runs until 31 December.

Aladdin at Billingham Forum runs until 3 January.

On Tuesday at 7:00 at ARC Stockton, The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company presents Retake, Remake!, a show where the actors take back films made about learning disabled and disabled people but without learning disabled or disabled actors.

Peter Pan at Middlesbrough Theatre runs until 31 December.

From Friday until 31 December Cinderella comes to Darlington Hippodrome.

Mavis Sparkle, a show for age 4+, is at The Hullabaloo, Darlington from Saturday until 24 December at 11:00 and 2:00.

Beauty and the Beast at The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond (various times) until 9 January.

Cinderella runs at Harrogate Theatre until 16 January 2022.

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