A new work by songwriter Phil Baggaley and author Tim Harvey, The Same Sky – A Musical, which is set in the Nottinghamshire coalfield against the backdrop of World War I, sees the light at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Tuesday until Saturday.
Louisa Lytton, David Callister and Freya Copeland are among the cast of SWAP!, a new comedy written and directed by Ian Ogilvy, a talkingScarlet production which tours to Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
Abba fans will meet their Waterloo when Mamma Mia! visits Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday 3 September.
White Slate Theatre performs Captured, a “politically-charged and poignant two-hander which uses mesmerising projection in a turbulent reunion of past lovers”, at the Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham from Wednesday until Saturday.
Mansfield Palace Community Theatre goes back to the 1920s to present Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at the Palace from Thursday until Saturday.
“The UK’s leading full mask theatre company” Vamos Theatre takes The Best Thing, its “swinging ‘60s story of unconditional love”, to Lichfield Garrick on Friday and Saturday.
An 18-strong ensemble of 18- to 25-year-olds featuring “the most promising young actors from across Northamptonshire and the UK” continue to tackle Shakespeare’s The Tempest in the Royal, Northampton until Saturday.
Ballet Cymru stages two Roald Dahl stories, Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs, at Lichfield Garrick on Sunday.
Stafford Festival Shakespeare’s production Othello, which features Oliver Wilson as Othello, Niall Costigan as Iago and Madeleine Leslay as Desdemona, continues in the open air at Stafford Castle until Saturday 9 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.