When the Eye has Gone, a one-man show written by former Kent and Derbyshire all-rounder turned playwright James Graham-Brown about tragic England batsman Colin Milburn, tours to Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Edgbaston, Birmingham on Monday and Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Derby on Wednesday.
Northampton’s Derngate hosts Buddy—The Buddy Holly Story from Monday until Saturday.
The story of a young, working-class music fan who shapes a bunch of amateur musicians and friends into the finest soul band Dublin has ever produced is told in The Commitments at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
Audiences at the Regent Theatre, Stoke will have the time of their life when Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage visits from Monday until Saturday.
Written and performed by Ross Ericson, The Unknown Soldier, a “story of comradeship, betrayal and of promises both broken and kept following the carnage of World War I”, visits Lichfield Garrick on Tuesday.
Demi Nandhra’s Life Is No Laughing Matter, an “autobiographical live art / stand-up / theatre performance about mental illness, suicide and radical cure attempts”, can be seen in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Children from all over Coventry will perform in a Shakespeare Schools Festival at the city’s Belgrade Theatre from Tuesday until Thursday.
Kneehigh uses “music, puppetry and foolishness” to tell a story of “war, prejudice and love”, Michael Morpurgo’s 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Welsh National Opera commemorates the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare by performing at Birmingham Hippodrome Tchaikovsky’s The Merchant of Venice on Tuesday, Verdi’s Macbeth on Wednesday and Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate from Thursday until Saturday.
Northern Broadsides and York Theatre Royal’s production of J B Priestley’s When We Are Married walks down the aisle at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre staging of Simon Reade’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice can be seen on the main stage at Birmingham REP from Tuesday 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.
A new musical comedy will be created from scratch in Showstopper! The Improvised Musical at Lichfield Garrick on Wednesday.
A “darkly comic drama which challenges our understanding of home, purpose and charity”, Parallel is a Black Toffee and Harrogate Theatre presentation in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.
The Russian State Ballet and Opera House performs Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday.
Performers from Zoo Indigo “walk on treadmills immersed in a digital environment” as they explore the post-apocalypse of 1945 in No Woman’s Land in the Studio at Derby Theatre on 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.
Opera and Ballet International presents Verdi’s Aida, an Ellen Kent production, at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
Mansfield Palace Theatre is turned into Renaissance Verona for Ballet Theatre UK’s presentation of Romeo and Juliet on Sunday.
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.