The Pilot Theatre, Derby Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East co-production of Roy Williams’s contemporary version of Sophocles’ Antigone visits Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham on Monday and Tuesday (hear our podcast interview with director Marcus Romer).
The national tour of The Best of BE Festival, Birmingham’s European festival which “places a strong emphasis on collaboration, participation and exchange”, featuring Radioballet of Hungary’s From the Waltz to the Mambo, Austrian Julia Schwarzbach’s Loops and Breaks and Waiting by Mokhallad Rasem of Belgium can be seen in The Door at Birmingham REP on Monday and Tuesday.
The Regent’s Park Theatre production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird flies into Curve, Leicester from Monday until Saturday.
Birmingham Hippodrome, which opened the first UK tour of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers in 1995, welcomes the show back for its ninth season, with Maureen Nolan playing Mrs Johnstone, from Monday until Saturday 25 October.
Opera and Ballet International presents Ellen Kent’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday.
Reform Theatre Company and Harrogate Theatre stage John Godber’s Bouncers at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Theatre Works—University Of Derby students working with the community—dance to Simon Stephens’s Punk Rock at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Thursday.
The world première of Nicholas Wright’s stage adaptation of Pat Barker’s novel Regeneration, set during World War I, with poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen being treated in Craiglockhart war hospital, regenerates at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Original Theatre Company’s presentation of Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat, adapted and directed by Craig Gilbert, sets sail for the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Pentabus Theatre Company’s tour of village halls, theatres and arts centres with Rory Mullarkey’s new work Each Slow Dusk visits Shropshire venues All Stretton Village Hall on Tuesday, Castle Hall on Wednesday, Snailbeach Village Hall on Thursday, Clun Memorial Hall on Friday and Harley Village Hall on Saturday.
Derby-based company Maison Foo takes its show Pendulums Bargain Emporium, a “greedy fairy tale for grown-ups”, to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Oakham, Rutland on Wednesday.
Zest Theatre’s Gatecrash, in which “audiences choose which conversations to tune in to through silent disco headphones as a party gone wrong unravels simultaneously around them”, visits the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire on Wednesday and The Castle, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire on Thursday.
Kim Woodburn, Anne Nolan and Denise Nolan appear in Catherine O’Reilly and Tim Churchill’s What’s All the Fuss About, based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, at Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday.
Buxton Opera House becomes the hottest spot north of Havana when Copacabana, with original songs by Barry Manilow, checks in from Wednesday until Saturday.
A new play outlining the true story of footballer Walter Tull, the first black combat officer to serve in the British army in World War I, is told through the imagined letters of a young, unknown soldier in Pamela Cole-Hudson’s Hallowed Turf at The Drum, Birmingham on Thursday.
Opus Theatre Company aims to score with Charles Dyer’s comedy Rattle of a Simple Man at Lichfield Garrick from Thursday until Saturday.
UK Touring Theatre’s world première of a new translation by the company of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, with four actors playing all the roles, is at Uppingham Theatre, Rutland on Friday.
The audience at Chesterfield’s Pomegranate Theatre will have Great Expectations of London Contemporary Theatre’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel on Friday.
Theatre Re’s concert performance of dance-and-mime theatre, The Little Soldiers, marches into the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.
Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party, the first play to be produced in the round at Leicester’s Curve, invites guests to the Studio from Friday until Saturday 8 November.
Rumpus Theatre Company is back at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre with Captain Murderer, a new play based on a macabre tale by Charles Dickens, on Saturday.
Peter Arnott’s new play Propaganda Swing, which tells the story of how some of the greatest German jazz musicians of the day entered into a pact with Fascists to keep playing their music at the price of seeing it corrupted for evil, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
Northampton Royal and Derngate’s co-production of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer prize-winning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof continues on the Royal stage until Saturday.
Alan Ayckbourn’s new comedy drama Roundelay—a collection of five short plays, the order of which is decided on the night by a member of the audience—continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 25 October.
Inspired by the music of The Selecter, The Specials and the 2 Tone scene, Three Minute Heroes continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade until 25 October.
A new production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 1 November (press night Tuesday 14 October).
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (Much Ado About Nothing) both continue until 14 March (press performance Wednesday 15 October) while in the Swan Theatre John Webster’s revenge tragedy The White Devil continues until Saturday 29 November.