Something wicked this way comes when Heartbreak Productions performs Shakespeare’s Macbeth at Brueton Park, Solihull on Tuesday.
A cartoon classic comes to life in Scooby Doo! The Mystery of the Pyramid at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Tuesday until Thursday.
Live music, “exhilarating circus skills and some outrageous hunting dogs” will be in evidence when Oddsocks performs Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the open air at Nottingham Castle on Wednesday and Thursday followed by Twelfth Night on Saturday.
An “intimate telling of an epic story of ice and polar bears, determination and betrayal, adventure and death”, A World Beyond Man, based on the true story of Russian navigator Valerian Albanov, sails into the Foyle Studio at mac, Birmingham on Thursday.
Lichfield Garrick learns about Avenue Q the Musical from Thursday until Saturday.
Derby Theatre’s youth theatre presents two plays unified by the themes of freedom and sacrifice, Judith Johnson’s The Willow Pattern and The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, at Derby Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
Gramophones Theatre Company holds a work-in-progress staging of its new show Wanderlust at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Friday.
Every story from Norse mythology is packed into Noresome, which has “comedy, music, physical theatre and an unhealthy amount of cross-dressing”, in the outdoor theatre at mac Birmingham on Friday and Saturday.
Six professional principals from English Youth Ballet team up with 100 local dancers in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham on Friday and Saturday.
Northampton Royal and Derngate’s youth theatre presents Dennis Kelly’s darkly comic play about fear, power and the need to belong, DNA, on Friday and Saturday.
Heartbreak Productions’ “fresh and contemporary adaptation” of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice will be performed at Tuckwell Amphitheatre, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on Friday and Hanbury Hall, Droitwich, Worcestershire on Sunday.
A “21st century love story from one of the country’s finest young writers”, James Graham’s A History of Falling Things continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
The professional production team at Leicester’s Curve joins forces with a group of local performers for the theatre’s fourth annual community production, the musical Annie, from Saturday until Sunday 10 August.
The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, a company built on the same principles that Shakespeare followed, to “present bold, clear and dynamic productions that excite and engage the audience”, takes Romeo and Juliet into the open air at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire on Sunday.
Wicked continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 6 September.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Two Gentlemen of Verona continues until Thursday 4 September (press night Tuesday 22 July) and Henry IV Parts I and II continue until Saturday 6 September, while in the Swan Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl continues until Tuesday 30 September and Arden of Faversham continues until Thursday 2 October.