Barnum continues at Newcastle's Theatre Royal until Saturday.
Birdsong comes to Northern Stage from Monday to Saturday while on Thursday eight new plays by emerging NE playwrights will be presented, script-in-hand, in Playing Up, and from Thursday to Saturday Unfolding Theatre presents Lands of Glass, based on Alessandro Baricco’s novel.
Donna Disco returns to Live Theatre from Thursday to Saturday.
At Dance City on Saturday, Aakash Odedra presents a double bill, Murmur and Inked.
The Full Monty comes to Sunderland Empire from Monday to Saturday.
Open Clasp, in collaboration with Frantic Assembly, brings Jumping Puddles to the Royalty Theatre in Sunderland on Wednesday and to Arts Centre Washington on Thursday.
Bring the Happy, the culmination of the Cultural Spring and Invisible Flock's happy memories project, takes place at North Shore on Sunderland University's St Peter's Campus from Thursday to Saturday. Tickets from the Customs House in South Shields.
At the Customs House in South Shields LipService presents The Picture of Doreen Gray on Tuesday and Wednesday.
4Thoughts: Myth, Music, Mayhem and Mirth from Northumberland Theatre Company comes to Alnwick Playhouse on Thursday and Friday, followed on Saturday by Blackeyed Theatre's production of Godber's Teechers.
On Friday, Townsend Productions presents United We Stand, based on the 1972 Builders' Strike, at The Maltings in Berwick. (Hear writer and performer Neil Gore talk about this production on the BTG podcast.)
Macbeth, presented by Tara Arts in association with Queen's Hall Arts and Black Theatre Live, comes to the Queen's Hall in Hexham from Wednesday to Friday.
Blackeyed Theatre's Teechers comes to Durham's Gala Theatre on Friday.
Teechers is also at Middlesbrough Theatre on Thursday.
My Brother's Country, a play about Islam, sexuality and how our world came to be the way it is today, comes to ARC Stockton on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Children's show Hugless Douglas comes to the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond on Saturday at 2pm.
From Tuesday to Saturday the touring production of Jeeves and Wooster is at Harrogate Theatre. Also on Tuesday, in Harrogate Royal Hall, The Russian State Ballet and Opera House present Rigoletto (tickets from Harrogate Theatre).