Balletboyz dance into Nottingham Playhouse with Life, which takes “an elegant, powerful and provocative look at life and death presented in the inimitable BalletBoyz style”, on Monday.
Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole performs his new show All Night Long at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Monday.
David Walliams’s space adventure The First Hippo on the Moon takes off at Malvern Theatres on Monday and Tuesday.
Lyn Paul plays Mrs Johnstone in the 30th anniversary tour of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers at the Belgrade, Coventry from Monday until Saturday.
A new adaptation of Federico Fellini’s La Strada arrives at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Monday until Saturday while in the Studio Multi Story Theatre Company presents Pericles—All at Sea, a tale of turbulent times and tempestuous seas inspired by Shakespeare’s story of shipwreck, love, loss and redemption, on Wednesday and Thursday, and Dougie Blaxland recounts the brief life of Colin “Ollie” Milburn, the cricketing legend who was one of England’s most unlikely sporting heroes, in When The Eye Has Gone on Friday and Saturday.
Jasmin Vardimon Company brings to life the marionette Pinocchio at Nottingham Playhouse on Tuesday.
Liza Goddard is A Passionate Woman in Kay Mellor’s “provocative and heartfelt romantic comedy” at Northampton Royal from Tuesday until Saturday.
New Adventures’ The Red Shoes, directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, dances into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Lewis Smallman from West Bromwich shares the role of Billy in Billy Elliot the Musical which visits Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday 6 May.
A “breathtaking” journey into the heart of the Argentinian tango can be experienced when the quartet Tango Siempre perform Tangomotion at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Wednesday.
Opera and Ballet International presents an Ellen Kent production, La Bohème by Puccini at Derngate, Northampton on Wednesday and Malvern Theatres on Thursday.
Cheryl Fergison, Maureen Nolan, Rebecca Wheatley and Ruth Berkeley head the cast of Menopause the Musical which tours to Wolverhampton Grand on Thursday.
As part of Dance4’s Nottdance 2017 festival, Lost Dog artistic director Ben Duke performs a one-man staging of Milton’s poem in Paradise Lost (Lies Unopened Beside Me) at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday.
A “raw and visually striking exploration of men and women and how we relate to each other”, Gameshow Theatre’s Dancing Bear, Dancing Bear can be seen in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Friday.
Written and performed by Racheal Ofori, Portrait is a “frank, fun and provocative look at the trials and tribulations of modern life as seen through the eyes of a young black woman” at Brasshouse, Smethwick, Birmingham on Friday and the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Saturday.
One Love: The Bob Marley Musical has its world première at Birmingham REP from Friday 10 March until Saturday 15 April while in the Studio Josie Lawrence and Trevor Fox are in Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist play Amédée which continues until Saturday.
Inua Ellams tells his “ridiculous, fantastic and poignant story of escaping fundamentalist Islam, performing solo shows at the National Theatre and drinking wine with the Queen of England” in An Evening with an Immigrant at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Willy Russell’s uplifting story of self-discovery Educating Rita, a co-production between Derby Theatre and Octagon Theatre Bolton, continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday.
Marking the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, Townsend Productions’ Dare Devil Rides to Jarama explores a turbulent
1930s Europe through the eyes of speedway star Clem Beckett, who became a volunteer for the International Brigades, at mac Birmingham on Sunday.
A new production of Maxine Peake’s first play Beryl, about sporting legend Beryl Burton, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 18 March (press night Tuesday 7 March).
Leicester’s Curve brings to the stage What the Butler Saw, the final play by Leicester playwright Joe Orton, which continues until Saturday 18 March (press night Wednesday 8 March).
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, the Rome season is underway in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre with Julius Caesar which continues until Saturday 9 September and Antony and Cleopatra which starts on Saturday, 11 March and continues until Thursday 7 September (both press performances on Thursday 23 March); in the Swan the first production in the RSC’s Chinese translations project, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Snow in Midsummer, about a young girl who is framed for a crime she did not commit, continues until Saturday 25 March.