On Saturday Northern Stage Is Curious, joining in the Curious Festival with a night of comedy, theatre, performance and spoken word from established and emerging Queer Northern talent.
Open Clasp’s Rattle Snake returns to Live Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday. On Friday at 8:00 in the Studio, Jenna Watt performs Faslane, a show about the nuclear submarine base on the Clyde where her family has worked all her life and her friends are protesting at the gate. What happens when the personal and political collide?
The Unbinding, a play about four women accused of witchcraft, comes to Alphabetti on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then on Thursday Open Heart Theatre presents its June Let Us Make It up to You improvisation show.
What the Ladybird Heard, the stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’s book, aimed at children aged 3+, comes to the Tyne Theatre and Opera House from Friday to Sunday (various times).
Edge, the postgraduate dance company of London Contemporary Dance School, returns to the Queen’s Hall in Hexham on Wednesday with four new works by Philippe Blanchard, Tamsin Fitzgerald, Athina Vahla and Ben Wright.
Cloud Nine presents A Parcel for Mr Smith by Peter Mortimer and performed by Dylan Mortimer at The Low Lights in North Shields on Tuesday.
A Parcel for Mr Smith moves to The Surf Café in Tynemouth on Thursday.
On Sunday A Parcel for Mr Smith will be at The Black Horse in Monkseaton.
At Durham’s Gala on Friday at 7:00, Jade Byrne performs Pricks, her one-woman show about being a type 2 diabetic.
What the Ladybird Heard (for age 3+) comes to Billingham Forum on Wednesday (1:30 and 4:30) and Thursday (10:30 and 1:30).
From Wednesday to Saturday, Reform Theatre brings Jim Cartwright’s Two to Middlesbrough Theatre.
Spoken word artist Francesca Beard brings How to Survive a Post-Truth Apocalypse, a show which explores our place in a new “post-truth” world that's had enough of experts, but not enough of Donald Trump, asking: "what is the global cost of make-believe?", "are all humans liars?" and "can the truth set us free?" to ARC Stockton on Wednesday at 7:00.
Teletubbies Live is at Darlington Hippodrome on Saturday and Sunday (various times).