The third play in the four-week Classic Thriller Season at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham is Suddenly at Home by Francis Durbridge which runs from Monday until Saturday.
Alexandra Burke plays the lead role of Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 5 September.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Hugh Quarshie and Lucian Msamati team up to play Othello and Iago in Iqbal Khan’s production of Othello which continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Friday 28 August and plays in repertoire with The Merchant of Venice which continues until Wednesday 2 September; in the Swan Theatre, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta continues until Tuesday 8 September and Volpone until Saturday 12 September.