What's on in the North East

Published: 21 September 2014
Reporter: Peter Lathan

Henry IV
Wet House
National Dance Company Wales

The Royal Shakespeare Company's Newcastle season at the Theatre Royal begins this week with Henry IV Part 1 on Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon (1:30PM) and Part 2 on Friday and Saturday evenings.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof continues at Northern Stage until Saturday.

At Live Theatre, Wet House continues in the Main House until 11 October and, in the Studio, Alphabetti Spaghetti's How Did I Get to This Point? runs on Wednesday and Thursday after which, on Friday and Saturday, Northern Nomads presents Butterfly.

National Dance Company Wales presents a triple bill of Tuplet, Mythology and They Seek to Find the Happiness They Seem at Dance City, Newcastle, on Saturday.

The Lion King continues at Sunderland Empire until 1 November.

On Thursday I Left My Heart in Roker Park comes to Arts Centre Washington.

At North Shore, Sunderland University Students' Union, on Tuesday Company TSU in association with Curious Monkey present Beats North.

In the Studio at the Customs House, South Shields, an extra performance has been added for I Left My Heart in Roker Park, then in the Main House from Tuesday to Friday Made4Stage presents The Big Hit and, back in the Studio, on Thursday Gary Kitching and Co perform Dead to Me.

Selina Thompson presents Chewing the Fat in the Henry Travers Studio at The Maltings in Berwick on Wednesday and in the Main House on Saturday Simon Callow appears in The Man Jesus.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Unlimited Theatre's MONEY the Game Show is at the Queen's Hall in Hexham and on Friday at 11:30 and 2PM, Norwich Puppet Theatre presents Pied Piper.

Over the Rainbow - The Eva Cassidy Story comes to the Playhouse Whitley Bay on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Friday and Sunday I Left My Heart in Roker Park is at the Gala in Durham.

Butterfly is at ARC Stockton on Tuesday and Wednesday and on Saturday at 11.30 and 2.20 Lunabug Theatre in association with Little Mighty presents Pigeon for age 6+.

Sikes and Nancy, Charles Dickens's own one-man adaptation of the grislier bits from Oliver Twist, is performed by James Swanton at Middlesbrough Theatre on Thursday.

From Monday to Saturday Agatha Chrstie's Black Coffee comes to Darlington Civic.

Mikron Theatre presents Till the Cows Come Home at the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond on Thursday.

Reform Theatre's production of Bouncers is at Harrogate Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday, whilst on Friday and Saturday Rachael Halliwell presents a staged version of her radio play, Room 253, about Agatha Christie, in the Studio.

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