The UK's “most successful touring rock 'n' roll production” That’ll Be The Day visits the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Monday.
Paul Nicholls, Jack Ellis and Ben Onwukwe appear in Owen O’Neill and Dave Johns’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption at Derby Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Jason Donovan plays legendary record producer Sam Phillips in Million Dollar Quartet, inspired by a recording session at which Phillips brought together Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, at Birmingham Hippodrome from Monday until Saturday.
Tall Stories Theatre Company takes its adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Gruffalo’s Child to the Royal, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.
Henry Naylor’s The Collector, which is set in an Iraqi prison in 2003 and features a translator determined to bring liberal values to his country, can be seen in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sh!t Theatre’s Women’s Hour, which looks at what happens when women are given only one hour a day to think about what it is to be a woman, tours to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Written by and featuring Malcolm Stent and Don Maclean, Brummegem Pals, which tells the story of two underage youths who escape their humdrum lives by enlisting to fight in the trenches in World War I, visits Wolverhampton Grand on Tuesday and Wednesday and the Palace Theatre, Redditch on Thursday.
Puppetry company Smoking Apples looks at how the fishing industry is changing and follows the journey of a fish from sea to plate in In Our Hands in the MET Studio at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Wednesday.
Written to be performed by the audience who are asked to read aloud from “a bucket load of spam mail”, The Time It Takes, by Theatre Absolute writer Chris O’Connell, clocks into the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry on Wednesday.
The X Factor’s Rhydian Roberts plays sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello, Stephanie Clift is Audrey and Sam Lupton plays Seymour in Sell a Door Theatre Company’s Little Shop of Horrors at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday while in the B2 auditorium HighTime, Coventry's first professional opera company, performs a new adaptation of Rossini's Cinderella, set against a backdrop of 1920s Hollywood, from Thursday until Saturday.
Danny Hero, a “heart-warming, feel-good musical” will be performed by a cast of local people at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire from Wednesday until Saturday.
Four actors from Big Adventures Theatre Company stage a “new (and not altogether faithful)” adaptation of the Sherlock Homes story The Hound of the Baskervilles at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Wednesday until Saturday.
This Theatre’s “three-man, adrenaline-fuelled cop parody” Police Cops, which features “supercharged physical theatre, cinematic style and uncompromising facial hair”, should be an arresting sight in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Thursday.
The history of one of the biggest-selling bands of all time, Ben E King and the Drifters, is told in Stand By Me at Buxton Opera House on Thursday.
The Fizzogs take “yet another non-traditional tale of fantasy, perfected in a single afternoon's rehearsal, not one, not two, but a few fairytales interwoven, with an added Black Country twist to spice things up a bit”, in A Black Country Fairytale... Ay It! at Wolverhampton Grand on Thursday.
Ellen Kent's Opera and Ballet International takes one of the most romantic operas ever written, Puccini's La Boheme, to the Regent Theatre, Stoke on Thursday.
Michelle Heaton, Gemma Bissix, Rebecca Wheatley, Polly Highton and Sarah Lawn discover that Mum’s the Word 2 at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Thursday and Buxton Opera House on Saturday.
Baroque Theatre Company presents Ira Levin’s chilling mystery thriller Veronica’s Room at the Lighthouse Theatre, Kettering Conference Centre, Thurston Drive, Kettering, Northamptonshire on Friday.
Tangled Feet’s show about the trials and tribulations of parenthood, Kicking and Screaming, a baby-friendly production for parents and their babies, is dragged into Lichfield Garrick on Friday.
Prepare “to be enthralled by a powerful score and a dark, haunting portrayal of Bram Stoker’s eternal classic” when Blue Orange Arts and Night Project Theatre stage Dracula the Musical at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Friday until Saturday 5 November.
Rumpus Theatre uncovers the disturbing truth about The Haunting of Exham Priory, Chris Buxey’s adaptation of H P Lovecraft’s The Rats in the Walls, at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Saturday.
The Pajama Men end their tour of 2 Man 3 Musketeers, their adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Saturday.
Alan Ayckbourn’s Henceforward and The Karaoke Theatre Company continue at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
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.
Glen Neath and David Rosenberg’s Séance, a “15-minute immersive performance that takes place in absolute darkness inside a shipping container” outside Birmingham REP in Centenary Square, continues until Saturday.
Russian State Ballet and Opera House stage Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
Indian dance maker Aditi Mangaldas and her company perform Inter_rupted, which “imaginatively combines the ancient art form of Kathak with a 21st century sound, rhythm and light”, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Sunday.
Jenny Seagrove, Peter Bowles and Adam Garcia are among the cast of a new production of The Exorcist by John Pielmeier, based on William Peter Blatty’s novel, which continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 5 November.
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.