Ellen Kent returns to Northampton’s Derngate with Aida, featuring French soprano Olga Perrier as Aida and Liza Kadelnik, mezzo from the Romanian National Opera, as Amneris, on Monday.
Brian Capron and Jenny Funnell appear in R C Sherriff’s thriller Home at Seven, which features a man returning from work only to find he is incriminated in a murder about which he has no recollection, at Buxton Opera House on Monday and Tuesday.
New Perspectives takes the world première of David Rudkin's adaptation of classic M R James ghost story Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You to Stahl Theatre, Oundle, Northamptonshire on Monday, Century Theatre, Coalville, Leicestershire on Thursday and Helmdon Reading Room Theatre, Brackley, Northamptonshire on Friday.
Former Coronation Street actor Kevin Kennedy plays Jimmy’s Da in the musical The Commitments which tours to the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Monday until Saturday.
Gary Lucy, Andrew Dunn, Louis Emerick, Chris Fountain, Kai Owen and Anthony Lewis drop everything to appear in Simon Beaufoy’s The Full Monty at Birmingham Hippodrome from Monday until Saturday.
New Youth Theatre turns Mansfield into the hottest spot north of Havana when it performs Barry Manilow’s Copacabana The Musical at the Palace Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Northampton Royal and Derngate production of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities visits Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire from Tuesday until Saturday.
A new play about Birmingham-born skater John Curry, who won an Olympic gold medal and died at the age of 44, Looking for John, a “powerful, heartfelt and comic story of one man's obsession with a forgotten icon and his journey to get an overlooked hero celebrated once more”, written and performed by Tony Timberlake, glides into The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Coventry’s Theatre Absolute performs Breathe, four female monologues by Chris O’Connell, at Fargo Village, Far Gosford Street, Coventry on Wednesday.
Opera North is at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham to perform Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss on Wednesday and Saturday, Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten on Thursday and Puccini’s Il Tabarro and Suor Angelica on Friday.
Birmingham Stage Company takes David Walliams’s Gangsta Granny to Derby Theatre from Wednesday until Sunday.
Anonymous Is A Woman Theatre Company’s Think of England, a “rollicking new play about courage, bravery and swing dancing”, visits Malvern Coach House, Worcestershire on Wednesday, St Michael's Village Hall, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire on Thursday, Whatcote Community Centre, Warwickshire on Friday, the Burton Institute, Winster, Derbyshire on Saturday and the Old Club House, Buxton on Sunday.
An Afternoon With Sir Roger Moore celebrates the actor’s 71 years in show business when the James Bond star is in conversation with biographer Gareth Owen at Wolverhampton Grand on Thursday.
Parallel, a “darkly comic” drama from Black Toffee which highlights the personal stories behind homelessness, tours to Lincoln Drill Hall from Thursday until Saturday.
English Touring Opera is at Buxton Opera House with Cavalli’s La Calisto on Thursday, Ulysses’ Homecoming by Monteverdi on Friday and Handel’s Xerxes on Saturday.
A company for international dancers of black and Asian descent collaborates with three “bold and inventive” choreographers in Ballet Black’s Triple Bill: Cristaux / To Begin, Begin / Storyville at Lichfield Garrick on Friday.
Endellion Theatre Company performs two dramas about public school life in David Hare’s South Downs and The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Simon Russell Beale returns for the first time in 20 years to play Prospero in The Tempest which continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Saturday 21 January, while 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.