Image Musical Theatre will give the audience the opportunity to sing the chorus songs and for some children to participate as characters in Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen at Buxton Opera House on Monday.
Pentabus Theatre Company stages Rory Mullarkey’s Each Slow Dusk, “focusing on people from rural communities, their experiences of the Great War and its legacy”, at the Pentabus Theatre, Shropshire on Monday and Geddington Village Hall, Northamptonshire on Friday.
Written and performed by Amy Hamlen and presented by the Apollo Theatre Company, Keep the Home Fires Burning is in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Brazil's “oldest modern dance company” Grupo Corpo which last toured the UK in 2005 visits Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Frantic Assembly’s “electrifying” take on Shakespeare’s Othello decamps to Leicester’s Curve from Tuesday until Saturday.
Tim Firth’s new musical comedy This is my Family tours to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning musical Jersey Boys, featuring the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, visits Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday. (Hear interviews with the cast, writer, producer and others in our special Jersey Boys podcast episode.)
UK Touring Theatre takes the world première of an English translation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House to Bonington Theatre, Nottingham on Wednesday.
Anthony Horowitz’s The Falcon's Malteser, a “hilarious family show following the adventures of hopelessly inept private detective Tim Diamond and his sharp witted brother Nick”, which has a cast of four who play multiple roles, can be seen at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Wednesday.
Sixteen youngsters aged between 8 and 14 and theatre company Forced Entertainment will stage a one-off public rehearsed reading of Tim Etchells’s That Night Follows Day at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday.
Ladida Productions presents Charles Dickens’s Sikes and Nancy, James Swanton’s one-man play adapted from the grislier material in Oliver Twist, at the Old Library Theatre, Mansfield on Thursday.
The Stoke Regent Theatre community play For the King’s Shilling, which brings to life events that happened to families from Stoke and the obstacles they had to overcome during World War I, will be staged at the Potteries Museum, Hanley on Thursday and Friday.
Theatre Works performs Scapin, a “modern interpretation of a classic comedy” by Molière, at Derby Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
Su Pollard and Cannon and Ball romp through Sherwood Forest in Ha Ha Hood! And the Prince of Leaves at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Friday.
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, “the comedy double act that has to be seen to be believed”, pulls the strings at Lichfield Garrick on Friday.
Midlands Creative Projects in association with Bloodaxe Books and Coventry’s Belgrade present their latest production The Hundred Years War, a “heart-wrenching drama whose every word is charged with poetry”, in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade on Friday and Saturday.
The final date of the national tour of Maison Foo’s Pendulums Bargain Emporium is at Deda in the company’s home city of Derby on Saturday.
Storytellers Hugh Lupton and Nick Hennessey and musicians John Dipper and James Patterson tell the story of the “the war to end all wars” through the stories of the families in a small Lincolnshire village in Barbed Wire for Kisses at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Saturday.
Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the miners’ strike, Meet the Real Maggie Thatcher which “provides an engaging insight into one of the most notorious political leaders of our era” has its last “in development” date Upstairs at the Western in Leicester on Saturday.
The West End production Top Hat continues at Wolverhampton Grand until Saturday.
A new production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Dame Janet Suzman and Khayalethu Anthony continue in Solomon and Marion, a story of two injured souls searching for redemption in a fragile, post-apartheid South Africa, in the Studio at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Moscow Ballet La Classique returns to Mansfield Palace Theatre with Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake on Sunday.
Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party, the first play to be produced in-the-round at Leicester’s Curve, continues in the Studio until Saturday 8 November.
Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre continues to present the classic horror tale Frankenstein until Saturday 8 November.
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, while in the Swan Theatre John Webster’s revenge tragedy The White Devil and Jacobean domestic tragedy The Witch of Edmonton, with Eileen Atkins playing Elizabeth Sawyer, both continue until Saturday 29 November (press night for The Witch of Edmonton is Wednesday 29 October).