Writers’ group BOLDtext Playwrights performs six short plays in which they imagine what we could, should, or should not be doing on the extra February leap year day in The Door at Birmingham REP on Monday, and then presents Selfies, “four dramatic monologues, read by ourselves, exposing our working practices and influences”, at the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry on Thursday.
Patrick Barlow’s adaptation of John Buchan’s novel The 39 Steps tours to Birmingham REP from Monday until Saturday.
British African theatre company Tiata Fahodzi stages i know all the secrets in my world, a “heartbreaking play that invites you into the home of a father and son after the bricks come crashing down around them following the loss of their wife and mother”, in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Tuesday.
Highly Sprung Performance Company presents Up, Up and Away, “a fantastical story of discovery, from school to the sky and back again”, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday.
The Touring Consortium and Birmingham REP production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Middle Ground Theatre Company’s production of the Miss Marple mystery A Murder is Announced, with Judy Cornwell and Diane Fletcher, makes the news at Buxton Opera House from Tuesday until Saturday.
Welsh National Opera’s spring season at Birmingham Hippodrome contains a trilogy, Figaro Forever, comprising Rossini’s The Barber of Seville on Tuesday and Friday, The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart on Wednesday and Saturday and the Birmingham première of a new opera Figaro Gets a Divorce by Russian-born British composer Elena Langer on Thursday.
Birmingham Stage Company’s Horrible Histories featuring Groovy Greeks and Incredible Invaders smash their way into Wolverhampton Grand from Wednesday until Saturday.
Des Coleman, who plays Sammy Davis Jnr, Paul Drakeley, who is Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra impersonator David Alacey are joined by Becky O’Brien (Judy Garland) for The Rat Pack and Judy at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Thursday.
Matthew Zajac’s play about his search for his Polish father, “an unforgettable and moving story of displacement and survival in war-torn Europe”, The Tailor Of Inverness has its English première in The Door at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday.
Jodie Prenger appears in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s Tell Me on a Sunday at Lichfield Garrick from Thursday until Saturday.
Buxton Opera House Youth Theatre performs Gargantua by Carl Grose, a play about a woman who gives birth to a monster baby with accelerated growth and an insatiable appetite, in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton from Thursday until Saturday.
Dance and music show Essence of Ireland takes on a new lease of life as Ireland’s Call, following the journey of strong-headed Sean Dempsey who at the end of World War II leaves behind his childhood sweetheart Cora and his beloved homeland Ireland in search of a better life in America, at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Friday.
More than 60 dance groups from across Staffordshire perform routines which take inspiration from Stoke City Council’s celebrations for European City of Sport in the Regent Theatre's 016 Dance Festival which continues until Saturday.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play for the Nation, which features amateurs performing as the Mechanicals alongside professional actors, runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Saturday, while in the Swan Theatre Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, which features David Threlfall in the title role and Rufus Hound as Sancho Panza, continues until Saturday 21 May (press night Thursday 3 March) and Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan share the roles of Faustus and Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus which continues until Thursday 4 August.