Su Pollard and Cannon and Ball romp through Sherwood Forest in Ha Ha Hood! And the Prince of Leaves at Buxton Opera House on Monday.
New Youth Theatre gets out the lacquer for the musical Hairspray at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Monday and Tuesday.
J B Priestley’s Dangerous Corner visits Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Clive Francis’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s new thriller The Small Hand thumbs its way into the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from Monday until Saturday.
Lyric Hammersmith’s Secret Theatre Company continues at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry with Hayley Squires’s story of power, corruption and revenge Glitterland, adapted from John Webster’s The White Devil, on Monday and Tuesday, Caroline Bird’s Chamber Piece from Thursday until Saturday, and Mark Ravenhill’s Show 6, also on Saturday.
Blackeyed Theatre in association with South Hill Park tour Stephen MacDonald’s Not About Heroes, the story of the two Great War poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, to Buxton Opera House on Tuesday and Mansfield Palace Theatre on Thursday.
Celebrating two decades since it burst into the public arena at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, Riverdance visits Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall from Tuesday until Sunday.
Moscow State Ballet presents Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.
Caroline Horton’s new show Islands which is in development can be seen at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday and Thursday.
Imitating the Dog lends its “unique theatrical vision” to Ernest Hemingway’s World War I novel A Farewell to Arms in the Studio at Birmingham REP from Wednesday until Saturday.
Welsh National Opera moves into Birmingham Hippodrome with Carmen by Bizet on Wednesday and Thursday, a new production of Rossini’s Moses in Egypt on Friday and another Rossini favourite, William Tell on Saturday.
The nasty bits are left in when Birmingham Stage Company takes its Horrible Histories tales about Barmy Britain to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Wednesday until Sunday.
Kate Tempest’s Hopelessly Devoted tours to the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.
Highlighting “the wealth of talent that Corby has to offer”, this season’s Youth Arts Slam takes place at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Friday.
Conor Delaney and Stephen Jones play all the characters in Marie Jones’s Stones in his Pockets at Lichfield Garrick on Friday and Saturday.
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 Palace, Ibstock, Leicestershire on Friday, the Thomas Cranmer Centre, Aslockton, Nottinghamshire on Saturday and Ingham and Cammeringham Village Hall, Lincolnshire on Sunday.
Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday.
Playbox Theatre again stages Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors and Mustardseed’s Magical Mayhem at its headquarters the Dream Factory, Warwick on Saturday and Sunday.
Little Angel Theatre brings to life Michael Rosen’s We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, with puppets inspired by Helen Oxenbury's illustrations from the book, in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham from Saturday until Sunday 7 December.
Ellen Kent’s presentation of Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly returns by “overwhelming public demand” to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Sunday.
The Gujarati comedy Chorna Haathma Chaavi (Marriage Is A Gamble) which is “full of romantic twists and turns that will keep you fixated” will be performed in Gujarati and English at The Drum, Birmingham on Sunday.
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.