Female Gothic, a one-woman show “in the thrilling tradition of M R James and Edgar Allan Poe” which is adapted and performed by Rebecca Vaughan, can be seen in the MET Studio at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Monday.
Robert Powell and Liza Goddard feature in Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Monday until Saturday.
Audiences at Northampton’s Derngate should have the time of their life when a new production of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage visits from Monday until Saturday.
Leah Bell and Crissy Rock, the writers of Seriously Dead, also appear in the new comedy along with Frazer Hines, Billy Pearce and Paul Dunn when it tours to Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday.
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 the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Tuesday.
Walrus Theatre’s debut show Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons examines how we express ourselves personally and politically through the lens of a couple’s relationship in the Foyle Studio at mac birmingham on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Eighteen years since Swansea-based Volcano Theatre premièred its original version of Macbeth subtitled Director’s Cut, “the erotically-charged fury of the original has given way to a boisterously playful absurdism with a muscular undertow of menace” in Macbeth—Director’s Cut on the B2 stage at the Belgrade, Coventry from Tuesday until Friday.
Brian Capron and Jenny Funnell feature in R C Sherriff’s Home at Seven, which features a man returning home from work only to find he is incriminated in a murder about which he has no recollection, at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
A “phantasmagoric adventure inspired by the search for El Dorado, the mythical city where rivers ran with gold”, Told By An Idiot’s Heads Will Roll is “a dark epic comedy about delusion, vanity and the corruption of power” which can be seen in The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday; on the main stage, 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 until Saturday while in the Studio the world première of Chris Hannan’s play What Shadows which tells the story of controversial MP Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech, featuring Ian McDiarmid as Powell, continues until Saturday 12 November.
English Touring Theatre takes Terence Rattigan’s 1936 comedy French Without Tears to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Northern Ballet’s Beauty and the Beast brings one of the world’s most famous fairy tales to life at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Tuesday until Saturday.
Cuban choreographer Nilda Guerra takes her new show Vamos Cuba! to Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.
A reimagining of Shakespeare’s last tale, written and told by storyteller Maria Whatton with music performed live by Maya Sinead, The Tempest—A Storytelling should whip up a storm at Lichfield Garrick on Wednesday.
Six people go in secret on Halloween to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage in the Talking Scarlet presentation of Marcia Kash’s A Party to Murder at Buxton Opera House from Wednesday until Saturday.
The Pantaloons give Shakespeare’s tale of ill-fated love a fresh twist when they stage Romeo and Juliet at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Thursday.
Choreographer and dancer Akram Khan will perform alongside two of his company’s dancers and four musicians in Until the Lions, a partial adaptation of poet Karthika Naïr’s book Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, at Curve, Leicester from Thursday until Saturday.
Noctium Theatre takes the audience into a world of gruesome operations set deep in the isolated, frozen wastes of the Russian countryside in The Country Doctor at Create Theatre, Vision West Nottinghamshire College, Mansfield on Friday.
To celebrate 20 years of creating and touring dance shows, ACE dance and music has reunited with choreographer José Agudo on a new piece Ten, which combines contemporary dance with flamenco, Kathak, martial arts and ballet, at mac birmingham on Friday.
Prepare “to be enthralled by a powerful score and a dark, haunting portrayal of Bram Stoker’s eternal classic” in Blue Orange Arts and Night Project Theatre’s Dracula the Musical which continues at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday.
A seedy world of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll lies behind glamour, riches and celebrity in Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean black comedy The Revenger’s Tragedy which continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 12 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.