On a stage that might be a painting or a page torn from a book, three women “unravel a broken, looping text on high art and impermanence, nostalgia and loneliness, spoken in a voice by turns sardonic and melancholic”, in Sleepwalk Collective’s new production Domestica in The Door at Birmingham REP on Monday.
Two actors bring Jane Austen’s words and characters to life in Joannah Tincey’s “imaginative, affectionate” adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Monday.
All 75 onstage deaths in the works of William Shakespeare are recreated in Spymonkey’s The Complete Deaths in the Royal, Northampton from Monday until Wednesday.
Featuring “some of the finest actor-musicians in the UK”, Buddy Holly and the Cricketers roll into the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Tuesday.
The Russian State Ballet and Opera House stages the ultimate fairy tale, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Tuesday.
A series of performances by Nottinghamshire pupils can be seen in the Shakespeare Schools Festival at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday.
Ali Taylor’s new play Cathy, inspired by Ken Loach’s pioneering drama Cathy Come Home, will be performed by Cardboard Citizens in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling novel The Woman in Black which “delivers an evening of unremitting drama, transporting the audience into a terrifying and ghostly world”, blurs the borders between make-believe and reality at Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Glen Neath and David Rosenberg’s Séance is a “15-minute immersive performance that takes place in absolute darkness inside a shipping container” outside Birmingham REP in Centenary Square from Tuesday until Saturday 29 October.
A “spine-tingling” new play by Chris Buxey based on the Gothic chiller The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft, The Haunting of Exham Priory is a Rumpus Theatre Company presentation at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Wednesday.
Performance provocateur Ursula Martinez bares her soul—and possibly more—in Free Admission in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday and Thursday.
Jacob Ifan, known for playing PC Jake Vickers in the BBC TV series Cuffs, makes his professional theatrical debut as Charles Darnay in Mike Poulton’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday.
Spitting Image actor Steve Nallon plays the Iron Lady in Dead Sheep, a play about the demise of Margaret Thatcher’s political career, which tours to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.
Birmingham Stage Company presents David Wood’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Wednesday until Saturday.
The UK’s “number one rock ‘n’ roll variety production” That’ll Be The Day returns to Buxton Opera House with a “new autumn spectacular” on Thursday.
Contemporary hip hop meets Charles Dickens in Avant Garde Dance Company and The Place’s Fagin’s Twist at the Patrick Centre at Birmingham Hippodrome on Thursday and Friday.
A “roller-coaster journey through Paul Robeson’s remarkable and eventful life” which “highlights how his pioneering and heroic (but largely forgotten) political activism led many to describe him as the forerunner of the civil rights movement”, Call Mr Robeson: A Life, With Songs is a Tayo Aluko and Friends presentation in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday.
Based on the diaries of celebrated politician Tony Benn, the Nottingham Playhouse production of Tony’s Last Tape by Andy Barrett, which features Philip Bretherton, visits The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Friday.
The Eulogy of Toby Peach, the story of Toby’s journey with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma—a cancer of the lymph nodes that he faced at the age of 19 and again at 21—will be given at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Friday.
An industry showcase for actors, Monologue Slam reveals “the most exciting new talent that Birmingham has to offer” in The Studio at Birmingham REP on Friday.
Liverpool actor Daniel Taylor plays John Lennon in John Waters’s Lennon Through a Glass Onion on the B2 stage at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Friday and Saturday.
A story of “male friendship against the odds and a tribute to rural English life”, Bea Roberts’s And Then Come the Nightjars can be seen in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
A one-man staging of Milton’s Paradise Lost which is “a journey through the story of the creation of everything condensed into 75 minutes”, Lost Dog's Paradise Lost (Lies Unopened Beside Me) dances into mac birmingham on Friday and Saturday.
A new play by Unanima Theatre that “takes audiences on the road trip of life and explores how we have all stalled at the junction of love without that road map to guide us through”, Love. Life. No Sat Nav finds its way into the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Saturday.
Baroque Theatre Company promises “a spider’s web of fantasy, reality and danger” in Ira Levin’s mystery thriller Veronica’s Room at Harborough Theatre, Church Square, Market Harborough on Saturday.
Michelle Heaton and Gemma Bissix explore the comedic horrors of bringing up children in Mum’s the Word 2 at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Saturday.
Hugh Maynard and Sophie-Louise Dann continue as Sweeney Todd and Mrs Lovett in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Derby Theatre until Saturday.
Frantic Assembly and the State Theatre Company of South Australia’s 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”, continues at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry until Saturday.
Lyn Paul reprises her role as Mrs Johnstone in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.
Alan Ayckbourn’s Henceforward and The Karaoke Theatre Company continue at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 29 October.
The Birmingham REP and Leicester Curve co-production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest continues to get a “stylish, fresh and contemporary spin” in the Studio at Curve until Saturday 29 October.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, 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.