Stephen Jackson, Liz John, Vanessa Oakes and Julia Wright from BOLDtext Playwrights will be exploring the politics of consumption in Insatiable in The Door at Birmingham REP on Monday.
The “captivating” tale of how one of “Britain’s greatest bands”, the Kinks, rose to stardom is told in Sunny Afternoon at Derngate, Northampton from Tuesday until Saturday.
Based on Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’s farmyard adventure, What the Ladybird Heard continues at Birmingham Town Hall until Wednesday.
The Birmingham REP production of The Snowman, the stage show based on the book by Raymond Briggs and featuring Aled Jones’s new recording of “Walking In The Air”, returns to the REP from Wednesday until Sunday.
Ballet Theatre UK presents Romeo and Juliet, set to a “haunting” score by Prokofiev, at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Thursday.
Cannon and Ball find themselves involved in crazy goings-on in The Dressing Room, a comedy play written by Bobby Ball, at Buxton Opera House on Friday.
Highly Sprung performs Fall Out, which explores how a night out for three young people leads to a “journey of self-discovery, testing friendships and questioning identity”, in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Friday and Saturday.
At Leicester’s Curve Grease the Musical continues until Saturday and Ramin Karimloo and the Broadgrass Band perform musical theatre hits on Sunday; in the Studio, David Wood’s adaption of Roald Dahl’s The Twits continues until Sunday.
The Chuckle Brothers, Benidorm actor Tony Maudsley and The X Factor finalist Chico lead the cast of Jack and the Beanstalk, which continues at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham until Sunday.
Kenneth Alan Taylor writes and directs his 33rd panto for Nottingham Playhouse, Aladdin, which continues until Saturday 21 January.
Joe McElderry who won the sixth series of The X Factor in 2009 takes the title role in Aladdin which continues at Wolverhampton Grand until Sunday 22 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.
John Barrowman, Steve McFadden, Danielle Hope, the Krankies, Jodie Prenger and Matt Slack are among the cast of Dick Whittington, which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 29 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.