If you fancy something completely different with a brand-new freshness, part musical theatre, part rock concert and vampires with an appetite for romance, then this is for you.

WOOL AND WEATHER: Felting supremo Claire Priestley’s vibrant exhibition depicts the four seasons in the North Pennines, in wool

ALL CHANGE: The spectacular curtain-raiser for the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway was staged at Bishop Auckland

Alan Ayckbourn’s play Just Between Ourselves has taken us back almost 50 years.