Lyn Paul plays Mrs Johnstone in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers at Buxton Opera House from Monday until Saturday.
Forced Entertainment takes its adaptation of The Notebook, based on the 1986 award-winning novel by Hungarian writer Ágota Kristóf which tells the story of twin brothers evacuated to their impoverished grandmother’s farm to shelter from the conflict during World War II, to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Touring Consortium Theatre Company stages the Birmingham REP co-production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
Emma Reeves’s adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s novel Hetty Feather visits Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Opera North is at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham with Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte on Tuesday and Friday, Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano on Wednesday and Saturday, and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore on Thursday.
The Best Thing, “a swinging ‘60s story of unconditional love from the UK’s leading full mask theatre company” Vamos Theatre, goes back in time at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Wednesday.
A two-woman show using “comedy, puppetry, singing and incredible tics to explore spontaneity, creativity, disability and things you never knew would make you laugh”, Backstage in Biscuit Land is on the menu in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Wednesday and Thursday.
Conceived and created by Luca Silvestrini and Orlando Gough, May Contain Food by dance company Protein tours to the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday and Thursday.
Zizi Strallen plays Mary Poppins and Matt Lee is Bert in Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s musical Mary Poppins which is at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday 26 April.
Presented in the style of a Victorian music hall, with speciality acts and variety entertainments, Red Earth’s The Remarkable Tale of Oliver Twist should leave the audience wanting more at mac birmingham on Thursday.
Seduced by the attractions of a city and a charming Surinamese man she met on holiday, Chanje Kunda packs her suitcase and sets off for a new life in Amsterdam in a story of “love, lust, risk and liberation” at The Drum, Birmingham on Thursday.
Jodie Prenger takes the part of Emma in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s song cycle Tell Me On A Sunday at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Thursday.
Transgender artist Kate O'Donnell makes a song and dance about her story of growing up in the 1970s in Big Girl's Blouse in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Friday and Saturday.
Sh!t Theatre’s Women’s Hour “uses satire, song, movement and mess to interrogate how the media portrays women, the obsessive and often funny gender binaries in modern life and the effect that has on the treatment of women in society” in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday and Saturday.
An “absurd physical comedy combining inventive puppetry, haunting mask and shadow-theatre” from international company 2theatre, Boris and Ingrid is a “hilariously sharp and unexpectedly poignant play exploring the inevitability of time, solitude and the joys of being odd” in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
Singer Pixie Lott makes her theatre debut in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s which continues at Leicester’s Curve until Saturday.
A new play which looks at the lives behind the fixed smiles and fake tan of the world of ballroom dancing, Amanda Whittington’s Kiss Me Quickstep continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 19 March.
Liz Mytton’s debut play Red Snapper, set on Jamaica when the island is alive with the excitement of independence and the thrill of providing the setting for the James Bond film Dr No, continues in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade, Coventry until Saturday 19 March.
A new revival of John Osborne’s ground-breaking work Look Back in Anger continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday 26 March while a companion piece, Jinny, written by Derbyshire playwright Jane Wainwright and built on research and development with women living in Derby, continues until Wednesday 23 March.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, 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, 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.