Live Theatre's Mega Bites, the 2012 Youth Theatre Festival, begins on Friday with Off On One, followed on Saturday and Sunday by Ten Tiny Tyneside Plays. Also on Saturday and Sunday Fuel presents an outdoor production, Knight Watch, written and performed by Inua Ellams.
On Friday and Saturday the Sunderland Empire Stage Experience presents Fame.
The Space Youth Dance Group perform Wonders of the North, a new piece of Dance at the Alnwick Playhouse as part of the Wonders of The North Festival on Monday.
Miss Crispy 1988 is at the Middlesbrough Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday.