The world’s most famous detective meets the world’s most dangerous woman in Rumpus Theatre Company’s Sherlock Holmes: The Scandal of the Scarlet Woman at Buxton Opera House on Monday and Tuesday.
Derby-based Ashrow Theatre presents Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest at the city’s Guildhall Theatre from Monday until Friday.
Robert Daws, Dawn Steele, Gray O’Brien, Thomas Howes and Simona Armstrong try to solve The Perfect Murder, the comedy thriller from best-selling author Peter James, at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury from Monday until Saturday.
New Jersey Nights, celebrating the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, returns to Northampton’s Derngate from Monday until Saturday.
Bill Kenwright’s production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s family musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat visits the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Tuesday until Saturday.
Lisa Dwan performs a trilogy of Samuel Beckett plays, Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby which were staged at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs and now open the new season in The Studio at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Packed with “mischief, bad behaviour and political incorrectness”, comedy musical Avenue Q is at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Crowd of 2 Theatre “condenses the themes and characters while retaining the magic and charm of the original” when the company steers The Railway Children into Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre Studio on Friday.
English Youth Ballet performs The Sleeping Beauty at Wolverhampton Grand on Friday and Saturday.
Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic presents Richard Eyre’s new version of Ibsen's Ghosts from Friday until Saturday 4 October.
Lenny Henry continues in the stage premiegrave;re of Rudy’s Rare Records—based on the BBC Radio 4 series which he co-created—at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
The world première of Nicholas Wright’s stage adaptation of Pat Barker’s World War I novel Regeneration continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday.
The stage adaption of the hugely popular BBC television series Open All Hours, commissioned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its television première, does business at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday and Sunday.
Sunny Ormonde, who has played Lilian Bellamy in Radio 4's The Archers for 13 years, performs her one-woman show at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre on Sunday.
The UK première of Peter Arnott’s World War II musical drama Propaganda Swing continues on Coventry Belgrade’s main stage until Saturday 27 September.
J B Priestley’s Time and the Conways continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 27 September.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 27 September.
The national tour of Shrek the Musical continues at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal until Sunday 28 September.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Swan Theatre Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl continues until Tuesday 30 September, Arden of Faversham continues until Thursday 2 October and John Webster’s revenge tragedy The White Devil continues until Saturday 29 November.