What's on in the North East

Published: 28 October 2012
Reporter: Peter Lathan

Medea Credit: Manuel Harlan

Oliver! continues at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, until Saturday.

From Tuesday to Saturday Headlong brings its production of Medea to Northern Stage.

Simon Stephens’ London, a co-production by Paines Plough, Live Theatre & Salisbury Playhouse, comes to Live Theatre from Tuesday until 10th November. On Saturday in the Studio Simon Mole in association with Apple and Snakes, New Writing North & Live Theatre, as part of Juice Festival, presents Indiana Jones & The Extra Chair!

From Monday to Saturday Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 The Musical is at Sunderland Empire.

At the Customs House, South Shields, on Monday and Tuesday there’s Amazing Grace, on Tuesday it’s Haunted House, a “spooky spectacular of things that go bump in the night”, a fundraiser for all the venue’s youth groups, and on Thursday at 2pm The Peoples Theatre Company presents There Was An Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly.

At Alnwick Playhouse from Thursday to Sunday Bookworks Theatre presents The Incredible Book Eating Boy.

Amazing Grace is at The Maltings, Berwick, on Thursday and Friday.

Reform Theatre Company presents Seconds Out at the Queen’s Hall, Hexham, on Wednesday, followed on Thursday at 1.30 and 4.15 by The Elves and the Shoemakers, presented by Theatre Hullabaloo and The Berry Theatre.

The Vagina Monologues, starring Clare Buckfield, Vicky Entwistle & Hayley Tamaddon, comes to Whitley Bay Playhouse on Thursday, followed by Amazing Grace on Saturday.

At the Low Lights Tavern in North Shields from Monday to Wednesday Cloud Nine presents absurdist comedy Marmite, or A Goat in the Wilderness.

The Elves and the Shoemakers is at the Arc, Stockton, on Wednesday.

On Sunday Blue Boy comes to the Dolphin Centre in Darlington.

The John Godber Company & Theatre Royal Wakefield bring Happy Jack to the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond on Friday and Saturday.

English Touring Opera brings Peter Maxwell Davies’ The Lighthouse to Harrogate Theatre on Thursday, Britten’s Albert Herring on Friday and Viktor Ullmann’s short opera The Emperor of Atlantis on Saturday.

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