Scottish Ballet brings The Nutcracker to Newcastle Theatre Royal from Wednesday to Saturday.
Jack Bennett performs Too Much Too Young in Northern Stage's Stage 3 on Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Tuesday and Wednesday The Paper Birds brings its latest show Broke to Live Theatre.
At Dance City on Thursday (7:30PM) and Friday (1:30PM) Motionhouse performs Broken.
Open Clasp bring their latest production, Jumping Puddles, in association with Frantic Assembly, to the Caedmon Hall in Gateshead at 6pm.
Dirty Dancing continues at Sunderland Empire until Saturday.
Operating Theatre presents For the Best at Arts Centre Washington on Thursday.
Fertile Ground, the region's graduate dance company, opens its tour which features A New Chimera by Tom Dale and Shields of Bone by Eleesha Drennan at 6PM on Thursday in the Henry Travers Studio at The Maltings in Berwick.
Tall Stories performs The Snail and the Whale (for age 4+) at Durham's Gale Theatre on Friday (5PM) and Saturday (11AM and 1:30PM).
At Middlesbrough Theatre on Thursday, the Reduced Shakespeare Company presents The Complete History of Comedy (abridged).
Dep Arts in association with Slung Low present Emergency Story Penguin (for age 5+) at ARC Stockton from Tuesday to Saturday (times vary: contact theatre for details).
Middle Ground Theatre Company's The Business of Murder by Richard Harris comes to Darlington Civic from Tuesday to Saturday.