Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, “the world’s most successful rock ‘n’ roll musical”, raves on at the Pomegranate, Chesterfield from Monday until Saturday.
“The nation’s favourite rock ‘n’ roll show” That’ll Be The Day returns to Wolverhampton Grand on Tuesday.
Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling novel The Woman in Black starts a major UK tour at Lichfield Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.
“Britain’s greatest song and dance man” Tommy Steele gets in the mood to play the lead role in The Glen Miller Story at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
A “story of comradeship, betrayal and of promises both broken and kept following the carnage of World War I”, Ross Ericson’s The Unknown Soldier is a Grist to the Mill presentation at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Wednesday.
Rosie Kay Dance Company performs two “athletic, intelligent and technical dance duets”, Double Points: K and Motel at mac birmingham on Thursday and Friday.
talkingScarlet presents Nicholas Briggs’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire from Thursday until Saturday.
Expect “gun-twirling, line dancing and Nancy Sinatra singing” in Louise Orwin’s A Girl and a Gun in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday.
An “award-winning, laugh-out-loud spin on Spielberg’s classic Jurassic Park, Superbolt Theatre’s Dinosaur Park: The Jurassic Parody is a “theatrical celebration of cinematic nostalgia” in the Studio at Curve, Leicester on Friday and Saturday.
Mike Poulton’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday (press night Wednesday).
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.
Based on the diaries of politician Tony Benn, Andy Barrett’s Tony’s Last Tape returns to the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Saturday and Sunday.
Michelle Collins plays Baroness Bombhurst, 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 in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday.
Playbox Theatre’s end-of-summer musical theatre festival which features Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Jr continues at The Dream Factory, Warwick until Sunday.
Cathy Tyson plays Lady Bracknell in a new production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest which continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 24 September (press night Wednesday 14 September).
Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth, the “ultimate game of cat and mouse where nothing is quite as it seems”, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 24 September (press night Tuesday 13 September).
Four actors play multiple roles in the UK première of Carl Miller’s adaptation of Keith Gray’s book The Ostrich Boys which continues in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday 24 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 while Aphra Behn’s The Rover continues until Saturday 11 February (press night Thursday 15 September).