New Perspectives’ latest tour, the world première of David Rudkin's adaptation of classic M R James ghost story Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You, visits South Luffenham Village Hall, Rutland on Tuesday, Tennyson d’Eyncourt Memorial Hall, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire on Wednesday, Cottesmore Village Hall, Rutland on Thursday and Aslockton Village Hall, Nottinghamshire on Friday.
Mike Kenny’s adaptation of Jack, based on Jack and the Beanstalk, which is “perfect” for three-year-olds and upwards and features Jake Waring, Yana Penrose and Martyn Dempsey, can be seen in the Studio at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday 31 December.
Coventry’s Theatre Absolute stages a late-night shopper event which celebrates new work in the city, including a performance of Hollow from Andrei Roman and Richard Walls, and Rishard Beckett’s new play Instrumental, on Wednesday.
Ben Duke takes his one-man staging of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me) to the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday and Thursday.
With a cast of three, Distraction Theatre Company performs its “high-energy” show The Twelve Days of Christmas at the Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham from Wednesday until Friday.
A new festive show for two- to six-year-olds, Santa’s Polka Dot Pirate, can be seen on the main stage at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday 24 December.
“A Christmas tale of trickery, magic, and naughty pirates”, Captain Sprout and the Christmas Pirates sails into the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Thursday until Wednesday 28 December.
Gary Sefton writes and directs Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire from Thursday until Saturday 31 December.
A re-telling of the Brothers Grimm tale about friendship and the making and breaking of promises, The Princess and the Frog, adapted by Robin Kingsland, is “the perfect introduction to theatre for children between the ages of four and eight” in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse from Thursday until Saturday 31 December.
Ten actor-musicians will perform classic rock ‘n’ roll hits from artists including Aretha Franklin, the Monkees, James Brown, the Temptations and the Jackson Five in Aladdin the Wok ‘n’ Roll Panto at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre from Thursday until Sunday 8 January.
Another version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, this time adapted by Laura Turner for Chapterhouse Theatre Company, visits mac Birmingham on Friday and Saturday.
Legendary Staffordshire funny man Eric returns to the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme with his band of actor-musicians for a “non-stop night of comedy, inspired mayhem and some of the greatest music of the 1960s” in Eric’s Christmas Party which continues until Saturday.
Lucy Dixon plays Snow White and James Holmes is Dame Brenda Bakewell in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, written and directed by Philip Dart, at Buxton Opera House from Saturday until Sunday 1 January.
Leicester’s Curve revisits the work of Roald Dahl in its Studio with David Wood’s adaption of The Twits in a new co-production with Rose Theatre Kingston from Saturday until Sunday 15 January.
The UK’s “most popular rock ‘n’ roll variety show” That’ll Be The Day celebrates Christmas with classic hits from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s at Birmingham Town Hall on Sunday.
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production of Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky, which has been part of Birmingham’s Christmas tradition for 25 years, continues at the city’s Hippodrome until Tuesday 13 December.
The European première of Peter and the Starcatcher, the prequel to Peter Pan, continues at Royal and Derngate, Northampton until Saturday 31 December while Second Star to the Right, an interactive show for under sevens and their families which is inspired by Peter and the Starcatcher, continues in the underground studio until Saturday 7 January.
Rebecca Keatley from CBeebies plays Fairy Moonbeam in Sleeping Beauty which continues at Lichfield Garrick until Saturday 31 December.
Scamp Theatre’s presentation of Julia Donaldson’s Stick Man continues at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry until Saturday 31 December.
Marc Bayliss plays Hook, Holly Atterton is Tinkerbell, Adam Moss is Smee and Jessica Punch plays the title role in Peter Pan at Mansfield Palace Theatre which continues until Saturday 31 December.
Lee Brennan is Aladdin and Liz McClarnon plays Princess Jasmine in Aladdin at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield which continues until Tuesday 3 January.
Mike Kenny’s new take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday 7 January.
Dick Whittington continues on the main stage at Coventry’s Belgrade until Saturday 7 January while the theatre’s alternative panto, Nick Walker’s Private Dick Whittington, runs in the B2 auditorium from Saturday until Saturday 31 December.
A “breath-taking” new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of adventure and friendship, Treasure Island continues at Birmingham REP until 7 January.
The Theatre Chipping Norton sets sail with a twist on the Daniel Defoe classic, Robinson Crusoe and the Pirate Queen, which continues at the Oxfordshire theatre until Sunday 8 January.
Grease the Musical is the word at Leicester’s Curve as artistic director Nikolai Foster directs a new production of the musical which continues until Saturday 14 January.
Kenneth Alan Taylor writes and directs his 33rd panto for Nottingham Playhouse, Aladdin, which continues until Saturday 21 January.
A new adaptation by New Vic artistic director Theresa Heskins of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen continues at the Newcastle-under-Lyme theatre-in-the-round until Saturday 28 January.
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; in the Swan Theatre Blanche McIntyre directs The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, which continues until Tuesday 7 February, the world première of Anders Lustgarten’s play The Seven Acts of Mercy continues until Friday 10 February and Aphra Behn’s The Rover continues until Saturday 11 February.