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 Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Monday and Tuesday.
Andrew Lancel, Sophie Ward, Mark Wynter, Deborah Grant, Shirley Anne Field, Anthony Costa and Ben Nealon appear in The Classic Thriller Theatre Company’s new adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone at Buxton Opera House from Monday until Saturday.
Amanda Abbington takes the lead in Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party at Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Monday until Saturday.
Coventry Belgrade’s “brightest young female talent” stages Rise, devised and performed by the Belgrade Young Company in collaboration with Liz Mytton and director Justine Themen, which explores what it is like to be a young woman growing up in the 21st century, in the Belgrade’s B2 auditorium from Monday until Saturday.
European Arts Company presents Chekhov’s Shorts, a “charming and hilarious collection of short comic plays by Anton Chekhov”, at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Frozen Light theatre company takes Home, its latest production devised specifically for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities, to mac Birmingham on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Night Project Theatre returns to the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham with an evening of musical songs from shows and some original work in Musicals Discovered II on Tuesday and Wednesday.
English Touring Theatre tours the Shakespeare's Globe production of Jessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn, winner of the 2016 Olivier Award for best new comedy, to Malvern Theatres, Worcestershire from Tuesday until Saturday.
Anita and Me, Meera Syal’s coming-of-age tale which follows Meena, a young girl growing up in the only Punjabi family in a 1970s Black Country mining village, visits to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday while in the Royal Concert Hall Saint Petersburg Classic Ballet stages a double Tchaikovsky bill of Swan Lake on Wednesday and Thursday and The Nutcracker from Friday until Sunday.
The University of Northampton’s final-year actors perform Pornography by Simon Stephens on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, Laura Wade’s Posh on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday and Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, all in Northampton Royal.
In the face of increased mental health problems among young people, Zest Theatre “empowers teens to face traumatic moments and come out stronger” in Thrive at Lincoln Drill Hall on Thursday and the Bridge House Theatre, Warwick on Friday.
Tina Hofman and Kristina Gavran, Croatian artists and long-term Birmingham residents who co-founded notnow Collective, look into family, parenthood and work-home subjects “in a challenging, highly visual and immersive way” in Wonderwoman in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Friday.
Shoot Festival, which “celebrates the diversity among emerging local talent”, takes over Coventry Belgrade’s B2 auditorium on Friday to present a triple bill of performances by artists based in Coventry and Warwickshire: Beat and Wolf by Kinfolk Collective; Letters from the Front by Gloria and Francis Lowe; and Sleepless Dreams, performed by Susie Sillett.
talking Scarlet takes the prequel to Peter Gordon’s trilogy involving the bumbling Inspector Pratt, Dong Ding Murder Me on High, to Lichfield Garrick on Friday and Saturday.
Choreographer Rosie Kay’s MK Ultra, a “high-energy, supercharged mash-up of thrilling dance, music and imagery” which is “inspired by the bizarre realm of pop culture mind control conspiracies”, gets its world première in The Studio at Birmingham REP on Friday and Saturday.
Lewis Bray’s Cartoonopolis, a “story of two brothers, one family, goodies, baddies and autism”, can be seen in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Saturday.
Conceived and created by Conrad Murray and developed with Battersea Arts Centre, DenMarked is “an autobiographical performance of tales from the council estate, your first arrest, dinner with your social worker and the Christmas dad went to prison” which visits the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Rhiannon Faith brings a real-life experience to the stage in Scary Sh*t, “a show about friendship, being a woman and asking for help” which employs “quirky and outrageous dance theatre”, in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Saturday.
Door Ajar Theatre takes Thisbe, a follow-up to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Saturday.
Hijinx Theatre in association with Blind Summit presents Meet Fred, a witty, mouthy puppet with real life problems, at the Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
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.
Leicester’s Curve brings to the stage What the Butler Saw, the final play by Leicester playwright Joe Orton, which continues until Saturday.
Strictly Come Dancing’s Pasha Kovalev urges Let’s Dance the Night Away at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Sunday.
The world première of One Love: The Bob Marley Musical continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 15 April.
Lewis Smallman from West Bromwich shares the role of Billy in Billy Elliot the Musical which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 6 May.
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 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.