Crissy Rock, Frazer Hines, Paul Dunn, Billy Pearce and Leah Bell appear in the musical comedy Seriously Dead, written by Rock and Bell, at the Winding Wheel, Chesterfield on Monday.
John Godber’s take on the NHS, his comedy This Might Hurt, makes an appointment with Buxton Opera House from Monday until Wednesday.
Susan Hill’s ghost story The Woman in Black comes alive in Stephen Mallatrat’s adaptation at Derngate, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.
Lyn Paul reprises her role as Mrs Johnstone in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers at Birmingham Hippodrome from Monday until Saturday 22 October.
Townsend Productions’ new play, Neil Gore’s Dare Devil Rides to Jarama, which “captures the raw passion and emotion generated by the Spanish Civil War”, visits the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Tuesday.
Philip Whitchurch’s Shakespeare, His Wife and the Dog, which features William Shakespeare returning to Stratford as a rich, famous but unhappy man, is a Bated Breath presentation at Leicester’s Curve on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Highly Sprung’s Fall Out “explores the story of three young people whose night out leads to a journey of self-discovery, testing friendships and questioning identity and loyalty” in the theatre at mac birmingham on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Brooke Vincent and Ruth Madoc are among the cast of Amanda Whittington’s poignant comedy Be My Baby, set in 1964 and featuring a 19-year-old girl who is sent to a mother-and-baby convent to give birth to her illegitimate child, at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from Tuesday until Saturday.
Jason Donovan plays legendary producer Sam Phillips at the recording session which brought together Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Car Perkins for the first and only time in Million Dollar Quartet at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Frantic Assembly and the State Theatre Company of South Australia take Things I Know To Be True, a new play by Andrew Bovell which is a “complex and intense study of the mechanics of a family that is both poetic and brutally frank”, to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday 22 October.
Performance artist Franko B is in the Foyle Studio at Mac Birmingham with Milk and Blood which “responds to personal traumas, societal ills, corrupt politics and barbaric conflict” on Wednesday and Thursday.
Written by Janice Connolly, Charlene James, Lorna Laidlaw, Manjeet Mann and Susie Sillett, Women and Theatre’s Starting Out is a “new piece of political theatre that shines a light on the experiences of young women entering the world of work in 2016” in The Door at Birmingham REP from Wednesday until Saturday.
A play “for anyone who has tried to write a screenplay—or teach creative writing”, The Lost Boys’ Me and Robert McKee is at the Guildhall Theatre Clubrooms, Derby from Wednesday until Saturday.
A rock ‘n’ roll legend is remembered in Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.
Philip Bretherton appears in the one-man show Tony’s Last Tape, based on the diaries of Labour MP Tony Benn, at the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-on-Trent on Wednesday, Bridge House Theatre, Warwick on Saturday and the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Sunday.
A three-man cast brings Chaucer’s characters to life in Blast from the Past’s Canterbury Tales, six stories told in a variety of styles, in the MET Studio at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Thursday while the rock ‘n’ roll variety show That’ll Be The Day is on the main stage on Thursday and Friday.
Don't Go Into The Cellar! Theatre Company presents Old Haunts: Ghostly Tales of Edwardian Menace by M R James, a one-man show based on James’s spine-tinglers Casting the Runes and Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, in the Met Studio at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday.
Four artists pay tribute to Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Richie Valens and Dion Di Mucci in a recreation of their last tour in Buddy Holly’s Winter Dance Party at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Friday.
The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire hosts An Evening with Ian Waite and Camilla Dallerup from Strictly Come Dancing on Friday.
Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen are women playing women playing men in a show about “what it is to be a man in a feminist future, how language is geared towards empowering men and what men and women really understand about each other” in Two Man Show in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Writer-performer and UK poetry slam champion Ben Norris battles the country’s most notorious service stations and the perils of lower league football in search of the man who became his father in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Family in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Saturday.
Incomparable detective Charlie Resnick takes to the stage for the first time in the première of John Harvey’s adaptation of his own novel Darkness, Darkness which continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
Kneehigh’s 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, based on Michael Morpurgo’s book of the same name, continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Nigel Williams’s adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies continues to have an adventure at The Courtyard, Hereford until Saturday.
Black Eyed Theatre stages a new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Sunday.
Hugh Maynard is the first black performer from the UK to play the lead role in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street which continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday 22 October.
The Birmingham REP and Leicester Curve co-production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest gets a “stylish, fresh and contemporary spin” in the Studio at Curve until Saturday 29 October.
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 and Antony Sher plays the title role in Gregory Doran’s production of King Lear, both of which continue 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.