The Russian State Ballet of Siberia makes its annual visit to Wolverhampton Grand to present Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake on Monday and Coppelia by Delibes on Tuesday.
“Celebrating motherhood in all its messy glory, offering support and encouragement, albeit using sometimes unorthodox methods”, Hayley Pepler’s In the Motherhood can be seen in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Monday, Lincoln Drill Hall on Wednesday and Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Friday.
Sometime in the not too distant future, composer Jerome struggles vainly to complete his life’s masterwork about love in Alan Ayckbourn’s Henceforward at Northampton Royal from Monday until Saturday.
Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hills’s The Woman in Black, featuring Stuart Fox and Joseph Chance, tours to The Courtyard, Hereford from Monday until Saturday.
Combining Motionhouse’s “highly physical trademark style with entrancing digital imagery in an extraordinary interaction between film and live performance”, Scattered explores our relationship with water using “projection technology, daring choreography and a ground-breaking set” at Nottingham Playhouse on Tuesday.
New Adventures’ The Red Shoes, directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, dances into Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.
Nottingham Playhouse associate company Fifth Word presents All the Little Lights, Jane Upton’s work which led her to become joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for most promising playwright, in the Neville Studio at the Playhouse from Tuesday until Saturday before a national tour.
The latest version of “the UK’s number one rock ‘n’ roll variety production” That’ll Be The Day visits the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Wednesday.
In a “better-late-than-never nod to the Bard’s 400th anniversary”, the Reduced Shakespeare Company performs William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) at Chesterfield Pomegranate on Wednesday and Nottingham Playhouse on Thursday.
David Rosenberg and Glen Neath’s Fiction, a “surreal, immersive experience taking place in total darkness and exploring the areas where sleep and wakefulness meet”, tours to Wolverhampton Arena on Thursday.
OperaUpClose stages “one of the most moving operas ever written”, Puccini’s La Bohème, at mac Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday.
TOOT and Ovalhouse present Focus Group, an “absurd comedy with a dark heart”, at Lincoln Performing Arts Centre on Thursday and Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Writer and performer Francesca Millican-Slater DJs her own late-night radio show, “channelling the rambling raconteurs of presenters from the wee hours to spin a noirish stack of stories, odd, familiar, funny, true and stolen,” in Stories To Tell In The Middle Of The Night in The Door at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday 18 February.
Night Light, “a play which centres on the gut-churning experience of two young people seeking asylum” which is Mandala Theatre’s debut production, brightens up the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.
Ray Quinn, Ruth Madoc, Roxanne Pallett, Jon Robyns and Cassie Compton appear in the musical The Wedding Singer at Curve, Leicester from Friday until Saturday 18 February.
Written, directed and performed by Clare Ferguson-Walker, California Scheming is a “hilarious new play depicting one woman's poetic narrative about a lifelong fascination with America, a (not so) secret dream to hit the big time and what happened when she finally got to Hollywood” which takes to the MET Studio stage at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Saturday.
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, the world première of Anders Lustgarten’s play The Seven Acts of Mercy continues until Friday and Aphra Behn’s The Rover continues until Saturday.
The UK première of a “razor-sharp new comedy” What’s in a Name?, adapted and directed by Jeremy Sams from the award-winning French play and movie Le Prenom by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday while in the Studio REP associate director Alexander Zeldin and his company consider the strains on families who are placed in temporary accommodation in Love which also continues until Saturday.
Alexandra Burke appears in Craig Revel Horwood’s new production of the musical comedy Sister Act which continues at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham until Saturday.
John Vernon Lord and Janet Burroway’s picture book comes to life when New Perspectives stages The Giant Jam Sandwich, adapted by Jack McNamara, at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Saturday until Saturday 18 February.
A new musical adaptation inspired by Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning 1957 film La Strada (The Road), with a score by Benji Bower, has its UK première at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Saturday until Saturday 18 February before a national tour.
Northern Broadsides and Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic continue to stage Cyrano, Deborah McAndrew’s new adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s romantic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac, at the Staffordshire theatre-in-the-round until Saturday 25 February.