Dudley-born Norman Pace is the Narrator in “the world’s favourite rock ‘n’ roll musical” The Rocky Horror Show which returns to Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
Musical theatre students from West Nottinghamshire College perform a showcase of “well-known and not so well-known songs and scenes from contemporary musical theatre” in Here Come the Girls! at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Tuesday.
New Youth Theatre presents West Side Story at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
London Classic Theatre Company takes its new staging of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Derbyshire actor Steven Blakeley is PC Geoff Younger in the first national tour of the ITV show Heartbeat at Buxton Opera House from Tuesday until Saturday.
The story of three boyhood friends, each searching for meaning in a post-9/11 world, American Idiot with music by Green Day visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Charlene James’s new play Cuttin’ It, which explores female genital mutilation and the price some girls pay to become a woman, can be seen in The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Northern Ballet takes its adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre to Stoke’s Regent Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Leicester’s Curve on Friday and Saturday.
Audiences at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham will say thank you for the musical and will not have to take a chance on Abba’s Mamma Mia! from Tuesday until Saturday 25 June.
Stephanie Ridings explores the “strange and uncomfortable phenomenon” of British women who fall in love with men on death row in The Road to Huntsville at mac birmingham on Wednesday and Thursday.
Derby company Oddsocks comes up with a rock ‘n’ roll production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth “which promises to be nothing short of Oddsocks’ usual mayhem and anarchy” in the Craft Village at Markeaton Park, Derby from Wednesday until Saturday.
Created by a team of some of the top comedy writers in the UK, Graeme of Thrones, an “original and unauthorised parody of the international phenomenon that is Game of Thrones”, turns Northampton Royal into a fantasy world on Thursday.
Year 2 acting students from West Nottinghamshire College chart the “harrowing” story of a group of women waiting for their men to come home from war in Widows by Ariel Dorfman (with Tony Kushner) at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Thursday.
Spymonkey performs all 75 onstage deaths in the works of William Shakespeare in The Complete Deaths at Derby Theatre on Thursday and Friday.
Choreographer John Cranko adapts Shakespeare’s battle of the sexes and “breathes new life” into The Taming of the Shrew, presented by Birmingham Royal Ballet at Birmingham Hippodrome from Thursday until Saturday.
Tap the Table’s “groundbreaking social comedy” Macbeth Gone Mental uses “the most approachable and entertaining methods in live performance to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and promote understanding of one of our great taboos” at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham on Friday.
Ambreen Razia’s debut play The Diary of a Hounslow Girl which is influenced by true stories of young Muslim women growing up in West London visits Derby Theatre Studio on Friday and Saturday.
A mixed community cast including young people with learning disabilities and professionals perform a new immersive production Seek/Find within Cannon Hill Park and mac birmingham’s outdoor theatre on Friday and Saturday.
A three-day event intended for everyone concerned with climate change and the role performing arts has in exploring it, Doing Nothing is not an Option takes place at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry and includes dance company Motionhouse’s Broken on Friday and 7 Promises by Random Scream on Saturday.
Chapterhouse Theatre takes to the outdoor arena at mac birmingham with its production of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights on Sunday.
Daniel Francis plays Martin Luther King and Tala Gouveia is Camae in Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop which continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 25 June.
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 is 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 while Ben Jonson’s satire The Alchemist continues until Saturday 6 August.