Opera North returns to the Newcastle Theatre Royal this week with Così fan tutte on Wednesday and Friday, L’elisir d’amore on Thursday and Andrea Chénier on Saturday.
At Northern Stage this week, Get Carter continues in Stage 1 until Saturday. On Tuesday and Wednesday Everything I Bought And How It Made Me Feel comes to Stage 3, followed on Friday and Saturday by Matthew Bellwood and Alison Andrews in association with LittleMighty presenting (The Story Is Not) Set in Stone, and from Thursday to Saturday NORTH 2016 presents Animal Farm in Stage 2.
Write Stuff, short plays by young writers from The Northumberland Church of England Academy in Ashington and performed by professional actors, is in Live Theatre’s Studio on Friday while in the Main House Mixtape presents Mixtape: Alternative, also on Friday.
At Alphabetti on Tuesday Connor Langley and Daniel Richardson present Below the Waste—a feature film script reading.
Kelly-Abbott Dance Theatre premières Launch Day, a new dance piece based on the paintings of North East based artist Alexander Millar, at Dance City on Saturday. Launch Day is a co-commission by Dance City and The Queen's Hall Hexham.
The Bodyguard comes to Sunderland Empire from Tuesday until 12 March.
On Thursday Cap-a-Pie presents The Town Meeting at Arts Centre Washington.
Before opening at the Arts Theatre in London's West End, Red Dragonfly's production of DiaoChan, a story of lust, jealousy and revenge, will come to the Queen’s Hall in Hexham on Wednesday.
At Middlesbrough Theatre on Thursday, Icarus Theatre Collective presents H P Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, followed on Saturday by Swansea City Opera’s production of La Bohème.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (for age 3-7) comes to Hartlepool’s Town Hall Theatre from Thursday to Saturday (various times) and on Friday evening Analogue presents Stowaway.
On Tuesday, ARC Stockton Cultural Shift and Little Cog present Butterfly at ARC, and then on Wednesday and Thursday Analogue bring Stowaway to the venue. Both productions are “pay what you decide.”
Thriller Live comes to Darlington Civic from Monday to Saturday.
On Saturday at 2pm Rhubarb Theatre presents The Amazing Adventures of Librarian Lil (for age 5+) at the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, whilst on Sunday at 7:30 Gerard Logan performs Wilde Without the Boy, a dramatization of De Profundis, the letter Oscar Wilde wrote in 1897 to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, from his cell in Reading gaol.
In Harrogate Theatre’s Studio from Tuesday to Saturday, Black Toffee and Harrogate Theatre present Parallel by Laura Lindsay, while in the Main House from Thursday to 12 March, the theatre, in association with Reform Theatre, presents Loaded in Harrogate.