Straight-laced family man Morgan visits his brother Vincent, a serial child abuser, in prison after spending a decade out of contact in Distance in the Hexagon Theatre at mac Birmingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Russian State Ballet and Opera House presents Verdi’s La Traviata, sung in Italian with English surtitles, at Buxton Opera House on Thursday.
The Red Chair from Clod Ensemble, a “surreal ballad of larger than life characters”, a lyrical, epic poem performed by Sarah Cameron, sits down in The Door at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday.
Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre presents Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II from Thursday until Saturday 26 September.
Don't Go Into The Cellar Theatre Company gets its teeth into Dracula’s Ghost, a “spine-chilling, original stage performance concerning the actual story of Count Dracula”, at Lichfield Garrick on Friday.
One hundred young dancers aged from 8 to 18 will be performing alongside international professional principal dancers in English Youth Ballet’s Swan Lake at the Regent Theatre, Stoke on Friday and Saturday.
A dance double bill of Midlands company Threefold’s Common Ground and a new piece by Wirksworth’s INdepenDANCE called Out of the Forest will be staged in the Town Hall, Wirksworth, Derbyshire as part of the Wirksworth Festival on Saturday.
A new production of the musical Hairspray, directed by former Leicester Curve artistic director Paul Kerryson and featuring Tony Maudsley as Edna Turnblad, Claire Sweeney, Peter Duncan, Brenda Edwards and Ashley Gilmour, continues at Curve until Saturday.
Robert Powell plays the title role in the regional première of Mike Bartlett’s play King Charles III which continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Sarah Crowe, Rosemary Ashe and Kirsty Malpass feature in Maureen Chadwick’s new musical Crush whose UK première continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday.
Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s award-winning adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece 1984 continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 26 September.
The world première of a stage adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s ground-breaking novel Brave New World continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday 26 September.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Alex Hassell takes the title role of Henry V which runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Sunday 25 October (press night Tuesday 22 September).