Nicholas Collett takes the lid off a legend in Your Bard—An Informal Evening with William Shakespeare in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Tuesday.
Michelle Collins plays Baroness Bomburst, Carrie Hope Fletcher is Truly Scrumptious, Phill Jupitus plays Baron Bomburst and Lord Scrumptious, Lee Mead is Caratacus Potts and Andy Hockley takes the role of Grandpa Potts when Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies into Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Sunday 18 September.
Rachael Young’s I, Myself and Me, a one-woman show about what it means to be a single woman in her 30s and how we can challenge the social conditions that hold us back, can be seen in the Foyle Studio at mac birmingham on Thursday.
Derbyshire-based JKB Productions stages its first show, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, showcasing the music of Neil Sedaka, at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Thursday until Saturday.
The Core at Corby Cube’s showcase night Launchpad, featuring “some of the best new theatre from across the region”, offers artists and theatre companies the opportunity to try out some of their new work in front of an audience at the Northamptonshire venue on Friday.
Audiences will get a taste of Broadway in Warwick when Playbox Theatre stages its annual end-of-summer musical theatre festival, with more than 50 young artists taking part in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Jr at The Dream Factory from Friday until Sunday 18 September.
A devised piece performed by its creators, Fadia Qaraman and Nyla Levy which “explores multicultural life and the challenges of ethnic diversity”, Different is Dangerous gives “a unique insight into the idiosyncratic lives of the Asian Leeds locals” in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Saturday.
New Vic “legend” Eric returns with his “multi-talented, multi-instrumental company of actors, singers and musicians” in Maverick, a tale of the Wild West filled with comedy and the greatest hits of the 1960s, which continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre pays homage to a man who was arguably the worst film director of all time, Edward D Wood Jnr, in Night of the Bride of Plan 9 From Outer Space which continues until Saturday.
The première of a musical that tells the story of how dreary, post-war England was transformed by American rock ‘n’ roll, Bob Eaton’s Roll Over Beethoven continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday 17 September (press night Tuesday 6 September).
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Gillian Bevan is the first woman to take on the role of British ruler Cymbeline which continues until Saturday 15 October and Antony Sher plays the title role in Gregory Doran’s production of King Lear which continues until Saturday 15 October; and in the Swan Theatre, Blanche McIntyre directs The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, which continues until Tuesday 7 February.