Shane Richie and Jessie Wallace star in The Perfect Murder at Newcastle Theatre Royal from Monday to Saturday.
Get Carter continues at Northern Stage until 5 March. Rove, a play for anyone who has ever tried to untangle a family anecdote or wished they knew more about where they came from, is in Stage 3 on Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Friday, the Russian State Opera presents Madam Butterfly at the Tyne Theatre and Opera House.
On Saturday, Alphabetti presents the second Alphabetti Soup of 2016: music, theatre (from playwright Matt Miller), stand-up and spoken word (from Jessica Johnson).
From Friday until 2 March, Cloud Nine presents Peter Mortimer’s World War I play Death at Dawn at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle.
On Friday and Saturday in the Customs House Studio, Analogue presents Stowaway. A man falls from a Boeing 777 and lands at your feet. What would you do? How would it change you?
Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate present Confirmation by Chris Thorpe in the Henry Travers Studio at The Maltings in Berwick on Friday.
Cloud Nine presents Death at Dawn at The Memorial Hall, Wallsend, until Tuesday.
The Russian State Opera brings Madam Butterfly to the Billingham Forum on Sunday 28 February.
Middlesbrough Theatre and less is MORE Productions present Shakers by John Godber and Jane Thornton at Middlesbrough Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday.
From Wednesday to Friday (various times), Gatecrash comes to Hartlepool’s Town Hall Theatre.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, ivo presents In The Vice Like Grip Of It, a play exploring the relationship between citizens and the state, at ARC Stockton. This is a Pay What You Decide production.
Harrogate Theatre presents The Great Gatsby from Tuesday to Saturday in the Main House while, in the Studio on Friday and Saturday, Brother Wolf presents Fagin’s Last Hour, adapted from Oliver Twist and performed by James Hyland.