Dreamboats and Miniskirts comes to the Theatre Royal in Newcastle from Tuesday to Thursday.
Ten Minutes to... Take Off, five new 10-minute plays by emerging young writers directed by five emerging young directors, is at Live Theatre in Sunday.
The National Theatre production of One Man, Two Guvnors comes to Sunderland Empire from Tuesday to Saturday.
The Only Way Is Downton comes to the Customs House in South Shields for one night only on Tuesday.
On Wednesday one-man show Too Much, Too Young comes to the Queen's Hall in Hexham.
Cloud 9 presents The Battle of the Sexes, a double bill of The Sisters by Peter Mortimer and The Battling Ettricks by Mary Pickin, at the Low Lights Tavern in North Shields from Monday to Wednesday, Surf Cafe in Tynemouth on Thursday and Friday and the Comrades Club in Whitley Bay on Saturday.
Shakespeare 4 Kidz brings its version of A Midsummer Night's Dream to Middlesbrough Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday.
Wednesday will be ARC Stockton's ARCADE Scratch Night of new work by members of the venue's writing group.
The Woman in Black returns to Darlington Civic from Monday to Saturday.
Nunkie Theatre presents Casting the Runes, two ghost stories by M R James, in the Harrogate Theatre Studio on Tuesday and Wednesday.