Under the direction of Sadler’s Wells associate artist Kate Prince, Zoonation Dance Company’s Into the Hoods: Remixed, the revamped version of the 2008 production with new choreography, a remixed soundtrack and fresh designs, steps into Curve, Leicester on Monday and Tuesday.
EastEnders favourites Shane Richie and Jessie Wallace take to the stage together for the first time in Peter James’s thriller The Perfect Murder at Royal and Derngate, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.
Birmingham Stage Company presents the world première of David Walliams’s Gangsta Granny at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Set to a “pulsating” soundtrack of classic ‘70s hits from artists including Donny Osmond, David Cassidy and Marc Bolan, Jackie the Musical will bring back memories of Jackie magazine at Coventry’s Belgrade from Tuesday until Saturday.
Gary Owen’s one-woman play Iphigenia in Splott, which “drives home the high price people pay for society’s shortcomings” and “looks at the world through the eyes of Effie, a hard-nosed, unemployed young woman who spends her days in a careless spiral of drink, drugs and drama”, tours to The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Siân Owen’s This Land, a piece of new writing “which digs down through the history and the future of a patch of earth and everything that has and will happen there, including possibly fracking”, a Pentabus Theatre Company and Salisbury Playhouse co-production, visits Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, Staffordshire on Thursday.
One of the most famous and seductive operas of all time, Bizet’s Carmen should guarantee an evening of passion and romance in director Ellen Kent’s new production at the Regent Theatre, Stoke on Thursday and Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
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 mac birmingham on Thursday and Friday.
Bryony Kimmings’s new work about clinical depression and men, Fake It ‘til You Make It, will be presented in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.
The Russian State Ballet of Siberia is at Buxton Opera House with Giselle on Thursday, Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty on Friday and Swan Lake, also by Tchaikovsky, on Saturday.
Matthew Zajac’s The Tailor of Inverness, an “unforgettable and moving story of displacement and survival in war-torn Europe, a powerful allegory for all victims of war”, can be seen in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday and Saturday.
The story of Joan of Arc “as you’ve never seen it before”, Joan, part of Derby Theatre’s RETOLD series, written and directed by Lucy Skilbeck, will be performed by Lucy Jane Parkinson, aka LoUis CYfer, Drag Idol Champion 2014, at Derby Theatre from Friday until Sunday.
David Harrower’s adaptation of Gogol’s Russian comedy The Government Inspector starts a short tour at Birmingham REP from Saturday until Saturday 26 March.
Green Day’s musical American Idiot opens a national tour at Curve, Leicester from Saturday until Saturday 26 March.
Brendan Cole promises A Night to Remember at Birmingham Symphony Hall on Sunday.
The Russian State Ballet of Siberia presents at Wolverhampton Grand The Snow Maiden on Sunday, Sleeping Beauty on Monday 21 March and Swan Lake on Tuesday 22 March.
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.
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.
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 today, continues until Wednesday 23 March.
Wheelchair user Amy Trigg plays Laura Wingfield in Nottingham Playhouse’s production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, part of a project to put disabled artists and audiences at the centre of their programming, which continues until Saturday 26 March (press night Tuesday 15 March).
Zizi Strallen plays Mary Poppins and Matt Lee is Bert in Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s musical Mary Poppins which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 26 April.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Paapa Essiedu plays the lead role in Hamlet which continues until Saturday 13 August (press night Tuesday 22 March) 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 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.