Four actors will take on more than 20 characters in a dash around the world in Giles Havergal’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt, a Creative Cow presentation, at Buxton Opera House from Monday until Wednesday.
Duncan James plays Tick in Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical at Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
Eight West Midlands playwrights tackle some of the hottest issues at the heart of the EU Referendum debate through a series of short plays in Eurotrashed at Birmingham REP on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Students from Vision West Nottinghamshire College perform Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Eighteen international dancers aged from 18 to 23 from Nederlands Dans Theater 2 offer a mixed bill of “astonishing dance and athleticism” at Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday and Wednesday.
One of the world's foremost ballet stars, Carlos Acosta presents his final classical ballet programme, A Classical Farewell, at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Introducing “three of Europe’s most daring solo performers from Spain, Italy and Ireland”, The Best of BE FESTIVAL visits Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday and The Bramall at the University of Birmingham on Thursday.
Olivier Award best actor winner Kenneth Cranham recreates the role of the ageing André in Florian Zeller’s The Father at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play for the Nation, which features a local drama company playing The Mechanicals, moves to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Joe McElderry plays Joseph in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Derngate, Northampton from Tuesday until Saturday.
A new dance-film production performed by “fast-rising UK dance / theatre company”, Experiential, Bridging the Void features “a cast of three dancers, spectacular filmed sequences of sunrise, a dramatic movement vocabulary and haunting original music” in the Foyle Studio at mac birmingham on Wednesday.
A “compelling and brutal tale about surviving in a world of espionage, violence and deceit”, Kali Theatre’s The Dishonoured by Aamina Ahmad is uncovered in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.
Off the Fence Theatre Company’s Girls with Balls by Ann Richards, “a new play which takes a bold, brash look at women, men and the beautiful game”, aims to hit the back of the net at Curve, Leicester on Thursday.
Martin O’Brien’s show Breathe For Me which “considers the nature of the regulated chronically ill body” can be seen in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Thursday.
All 75 of Shakespeare’s death scenes will be performed in Spymonkey’s The Complete Deaths, adapted and directed by Tim Crouch, at the Royal, Northampton from Thursday until Saturday.
Middle Child Theatre stages an “electric, unapologetic and award-winning telling of three young lives living for the weekend in Luke Barnes’s Weekend Rockstars in The Door at Birmingham REP on Friday and Saturday.
A celebration of Irish dance and culture, Riverdance, which is celebrating its 21st birthday, trips into the Regent Theatre, Stoke on Friday and Saturday.
Two of Derby Theatre’s RETOLD series—classic tales seen afresh from the perspective of a female character—are on the road; Jane Wainwright’s Jinny, which responds to John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, is performed by Joanna Simpkins as part of the Osborne and After Festival at Clun, Shropshire from Friday until Sunday while Joan, written and directed by Lucy J Skilbeck and performed by Lucy Jane Parkinson, aka LoUis CYfer, Drag Idol Champion 2014, visits the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-on-Trent on Friday, The Hopbarn, Southwell, Nottinghamshire on Saturday and The Hole in the Wall, Spalding, Lincolnshire on Sunday.
Cheryl Fergison, Linda Nolan and Rebecca Wheatley appear in Jeanie Linders’s Menopause the Musical at Lincoln Theatre Royal on Saturday.
Harvey Basset, Benjamin Darlington, Neville Cann, Elizabeth Brooks, Jennifer Rigby, Karen Whyte and Megan Straken are the cast of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest which continues at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday.
South African company Tribhangi Dance Theatre combine “the grace of Indian classical Bharatanatyam with the strong physicality of African dance in an exhilarating dance experience”, Sukuma, in the Foyle Studio at mac birmingham on Sunday.
A “lost treasure of Edwardian theatre”, Cicely Hamilton’s Diana of Dobson’s, a “rags-to-riches story mixing comedy with social commentary and set in the unseen world of overworked, underpaid shop girls”, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 14 May (press night Wednesday 4 May).
Lucy Jones plays Elle Woods in a new production of the comedy Legally Blonde the Musical at Curve, Leicester which continues until Saturday 14 May.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Paapa Essiedu plays Hamlet which continues until Saturday 13 August and Gillian Bevan becomes the first woman to take on the role of British ruler Cymbeline which continues until Friday 12 August (press night Tuesday 10 May); 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.