As part of the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival (neat16), 2Magpies Theatre presents Ventoux, “an intense staging of the battle between two champions, Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani, in the Tour de France 2000”, at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Monday and Tuesday while Gary Clarke’s Coal, which takes a “nostalgic look at the hard-hitting realities of life at the coal face” and marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike, dances into Nottingham Playhouse, also on Monday and Tuesday.
Hayley Tamaddon plays Roxie Hart, John Partridge is Billy Flynn and Sam Bailey takes the role of Mama Morton in Chicago at Derngate, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.
Diana Vickers is Janet Weiss, Ben Freeman plays Brad Majors, Paul Cattermole takes the roles of Eddie and Dr Scott, Liam Tamne is Frank N Furter, Kristian Lavercombe plays Riff Raff and Steve Punt is the narrator in The Rocky Horror Show at the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Monday until Saturday.
Strictly Come Dancing’s Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace take their final theatre show The Last Tango to the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham from Monday until Wednesday and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.
Writer and original member Jenny Éclair is joined by Susie Blake and Kate Robbins in Grumpy Old Women—Fifty Shades of Beige at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday.
A cast of 15 actors from Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory perform Hamlet and All’s Well That Ends Well at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Lucy O’Byrne will play Maria and Andrew Lancel is Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.
Spiltmilk Dance takes the audience on a “fast-paced race through seven decades of British pop culture, the blockbusters we all remember and the fads and fashions we might prefer to forget” in Blast From the Past in Derby Theatre Studio on Wednesday.
A “bold reimagining of the opera form” that weaves together theatre, contemporary classical music, electronics and film, Opera for the Unknown Woman, composed, written and directed by Melanie Wilson in collaboration with theatre producers Fuel, previews at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday and Thursday.
Struggle by new writer Harriet Muscroft “ties in the struggles we face in our own morality, faced with impossible odds, lying somewhere in between guilt and duty” at the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.
Victoria Melody’s Hair Peace, a “comedic exploration of the human hair extension industry”, weaves its way into Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Thursday and Derby Theatre Studio on Friday.
An analysis of infertility and the taboo that surrounds it, Gareth Farr’s The Quiet House, a “funny, moving and unswervingly honest love story inspired by true events”, can be seen in The Door at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday 4 June.
Going Viral, a “thrilling new development in Daniel Bye’s unique blend of storytelling, playful comedy and performance lecture”, gets connected to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Friday.
Fired Up Theatre presents Mausoleum: Tales of Chaos and Claustrophobia, a new production exploring the lives and stories of a group of refugees and migrants crammed into a container, at Lichfield Garrick on Friday and Saturday.
Motionhouse and NoFit State Circus collaborate to stage Block, which features 20 oversized blocks being deconstructed and reformed into an infinite variety of shapes, in Birmingham Municipal Bank on Friday and Saturday.
Featuring two new commissions by Pontus Lidberg and Javier de Frutos, Life by BalletBoyz “takes an elegant, powerful and sometimes provocative look at life and death” at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
Andy Reiss, David Fawcett, Katie Leeming and Rebecca Vere go Beyond the Barricade to perform some of the greatest songs in musical theatre at Stafford Gatehouse on Saturday.
Bethany Goodman, Charlotte Fox, James Nicholas and Matthew Tweedale form the cast of Blue Orange Theatre’s production of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland from Saturday until Saturday 11 June.
Don Warrington takes the lead role in Shakespeare’s King Lear, a Royal Exchange Theatre with Talawa Theatre Company presentation in association with Birmingham REP, which continues on the main stage at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Fantasmagorical musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang continues at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham until Sunday.
The late Victoria Wood’s first play Talent continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 4 June (press night Tuesday 24 May).
The world première of Roy Williams’s play Soul, which explores the extraordinary life of Marvin Gaye, continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday 11 June (press night Tuesday 24 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; in the Swan Theatre Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan share the roles of Faustus and Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus which continues until Thursday 4 August.