The touring production of The Ladykillers comes to Newcastle Theatre Royal from Monday to Saturday.
At 10:30 and 1:30 from Wednesday to Friday, The Puppet Lab presents Each Peach Pear Plum for very young children at Northern Stage, and from Thursday to Saturday at 8PM, North, the theatre’s new company made up of seven recent graduates, emerging artists and actors from the region, presents The Man Who Thought the Moon Would Fall Out of the Sky.
On Friday in the Studio at Live Write Stuff, six new short plays written by 13- and 14-year-olds from the East End of Newcastle are performed for the first time as script-in-hand readings by professional actors.
On Wednesday, Moscow Ballet La Classique presents Swan Lake at the Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre.
On Tuesday at 11:30 and 1:30, Northern Ballet brings its production of Ugly Duckling to Dance City whilst on Thursday the Tom Dale Company presents Refugees of the Septic Heart.
From Friday to Sunday the Imperial Ice Stars bring Sleeping Beauty on Ice to Sunderland Empire.
The Thing about Psychopaths by Red Ladder Theatre Company in association with The Carriageworks, Leeds comes to Arts Centre Washington Thursday.
At 2PM and 4PM on Saturday, Northern Ballet’s Ugly Duckling comes to The Maltings in Berwick.
2faced Dance performs Out of His Skin at the Queen’s Hall in Hexham on Tuesday.
Moscow Ballet La Classique presents Coppelia at the Playhouse Whitley Bay on Thursday.
The Chinese State Circus comes to Billingham Forum from Friday to Sunday.
Icarus Theatre Collective presents Romeo and Juliet at the Town Hall Theatre in Hartlepool on Tuesday.
On Wednesday North presents The Man Who Thought the Moon Would Fall Out of the Sky at ARC Stockton, whilst on Thursday and Friday Upswing presents What Happens in Winter?, a mixture of aerial, theatre and dance.
Shakespeare 4 Kidz’ production of The Tempest is at the Middlesbrough Theatre from Monday to Thursday.
Gareth Thomas stars in Cadfael: The Virgin in the Ice at Darlington Civic from Tuesday to Saturday.