The Russian State Opera performs Bizet's Carmen at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Monday.
Birmingham Stage Company leaves in the nasty bits when it presents Barmy Britain, a Horrible Histories story, at Buxton Opera House from Monday until Wednesday.
Jonathan Maitland’s play about the demise of Margaret Thatcher, Dead Sheep, featuring Steve Nallon as Mrs Thatcher and Graham Seed as Ian Gow, tours to the Royal, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.
Steelworks Theatre Company says Grow Up Grandad when it stages Gordon Steel's play at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Tuesday.
The life of Nelson Mandela is brought to the stage by Cape Town Opera, with more than 60 South African performers charting Mandela’s transformation from freedom fighter to president, in Mandela Trilogy at Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Produced by the John Godber Company and Theatre Royal Wakefield and directed by Godber, This Might Hurt offers “a hilarious and heart-breaking look at the NHS” at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Lucy O’Byrne and Andrew Lancel feature in Bill Kenwright’s new production of The Sound of Music at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Sell a Door Theatre Company’s production of rock musical horror comedy Little Shop of Horrors should grow on audiences at Lichfield Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.
Talawa Theatre Company, HighTide and Soho Theatre tour Girls, Theresa Ikoko’s “funny and fiercely passionate new play” about three teenage girls kidnapped from Nigeria, to The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Set in 1933, Idle Motion’s Shooting With Light tells the “remarkable story of Gerda Taro, one of the first female photojournalists to cover the front line of a war”, at mac birmingham on Wednesday.
Jason Manford plays Caractacus Potts, Phill Jupitus is Lord Scrumptious and Baron Bomburst, Claire Sweeney plays Baroness Bomburst and Carrie Hope Fletcher is Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at Northampton’s Derngate from Wednesday until Sunday 2 October.
Robert Lloyd Parry adapts and performs H G Wells’s The Time Machine as a one-man show in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Thursday.
“Comic chameleons” the Pajama Men found an old copy of The Three Musketeers and adapted it as 2 Man 3 Musketeers which they present in the Studio at Curve, Leicester on Thursday and Friday.
Eccentric Nottinghamshire aristocrat William Cavendish-Bentinck who hid himself away and was fascinated with tunnels is the subject of Nick Wood’s adaptation of Mick Jackson’s novel The Underground Man in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse from Thursday until Saturday 8 October.
Written and performed by Yolanda Mercy, On the Edge of Me is a dark comedy which fuses storytelling, poetry, live music and audience participation to explore the themes of mental health issues and graduate unemployment in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.
Gary McNair’s Show and Tell: A Gambler's Guide to Dying, the story of a granddad who won a fortune betting on the 1966 World Cup and, when diagnosed with cancer, gambled it all on living to see the year 2000, is odds-on to be seen in the Foyle Studio at mac birmingham on Friday.
Scamp Theatre’s adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s children’s book Stick Man visits Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to Birmingham Hippodrome for the first time in six years to present two programmes, Open Door with choreography by Ronald K Brown, Piazzolla Caldera with music by Astor Piazzolla and choreography Paul Taylor, and Alvin Ailey’s Revelations which uses African-American spirituals, song-sermons, gospel songs and holy blues, on Friday; and Four Corners with choreography by Ronald K Brown, Exodus with music by Raphael Xavier and choreography by Rennie Harris, After the Rain Pas de Deux with music by Arvo Pärt and choreography by Christopher Wheeldon, and Revelations on Saturday.
A three-day free celebration of all things hip hop, The B-Side Hip Hop Festival takes place at venues across Birmingham, including the Patrick Centre at Birmingham Hippodrome and the Old Rep, from Friday until Sunday.
Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre presents Frederick Knott’s Dial M for Murder from Friday until Saturday 1 October.
Baroque Theatre Company tours Ira Levin's chilling mystery thriller Veronica's Room to Bonington Theatre, Arnold Leisure Centre, Arnold, Nottinghamshire on Saturday.
Jenny Lee performs her “dark, funny thriller” about the leading role technology plays in our lives, Heartbeats and Algorithms, in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Inspired by a recording session at which Sam Phillips brought together Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, Million Dollar Quartet continues at Curve, Leicester until Saturday.
A new production of Jim Cartwright's comedy drama The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, the first co-production between The Theatre Chipping Norton and Greenwich Theatre, London, continues at The Theatre Chipping Norton until Saturday.
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.
Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth, the “ultimate game of cat and mouse where nothing is quite as it seems”, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
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.
The One Man Opera Company presents Madam Butterfly Returns, set 30 years after the end of Puccini’s opera with Michael Finnissy’s new score responding to themes in the Puccini work, in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Sunday.
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.