Ballet Wales dances into the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme with Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood and Three Little Pigs on Monday.
John Partridge plays Billy Flynn, Hayley Tamaddon is Roxie Hart and The X-Factor winner Sam Bailey plays Mama Morton in Chicago at Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
Oddsocks tours its new production of Much Ado About Nothing, a “high-octane version of Shakespeare’s witty battle of the sexes featuring well-known pop hits from across the decades”, to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Thursday.
Richard Fleeshman is Sky Masterson and Maxwell Caulfield plays Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
The HandleBards, a four-strong troupe of cycling actors, stages new productions of Romeo and Juliet on Tuesday, The Taming of the Shrew on Wednesday and Much Ado About Nothing on Sunday at the Activeace Arena, Tattershall Drive, The Park, Nottingham.
Ballet Black, a company for international dancers of black and Asian descent, performs “an irresistible trilogy of narrative and abstract dance”, featuring Christopher Hampson’s Storyville, at Nottingham Playhouse on Wednesday.
Birmingham Royal Ballet presents a Shakespeare triple bill of José Limón’s The Moor’s Pavane which distils Othello into a one-act tragedy, David Bintley’s The Shakespeare Suite, a collection of the Bard’s best-loved characters set to a swinging Duke Ellington score, and Jessica Lang’s world première of The Sonnets at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday.
Here to There Productions stages Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval at Ludlow Assembly Rooms from Wednesday until Saturday.
Sheila McMahon, a qualified counselor, comedienne and author, performs her one-woman show Sheila's MHS—Mental Health Show in the MET Studio at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Thursday.
2Magpies Theatre presents Ventoux, “an intense staging of the battle between two champions, Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani, in the Tour de France 2000”, in The Lab at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Thursday and Derby Theatre Studio on Saturday.
An 18-strong ensemble of 18- to 25-year-olds featuring “the most promising young actors from across Northamptonshire and the UK” tackle Shakespeare’s The Tempest in the Royal, Northampton from Thursday until Saturday 2 July.
Stafford Festival Shakespeare’s production Othello, which features Oliver Wilson as Othello, Niall Costigan as Iago and Madeleine Leslay as Desdemona, takes to the open air at Stafford Castle from Thursday until Saturday 9 July.
Audiences at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham are saying thank you for the musical as Abba’s Mamma Mia! continues until Saturday.
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.
“Outdoor arts extravaganza” SO Festival visits Lincolsnhire towns Mablethorpe, Horncastle, Alford, Louth, Spilsby, Woodhall Spa and Skegness from Saturday until Sunday 3 July.
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.