Choreographer Gary Clarke presents COAL, a “riveting dance theatre show which takes an nostalgic look at the hard-hitting realities of life at the coal face”, at Nottingham Playhouse on Monday and Tuesday.
Mischief Theatre’s Olivier Award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong should have audiences at Birmingham REP laughing in the aisles from Monday until Saturday.
Written by Charlotte Josephine, Blush tells five candid stories about revenge porn and its many victims when it visits mac Birmingham on Tuesday.
Derby-based Oddsocks Productions “breathe new life” into Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by giving it a Mods and Rockers twist in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Thursday.
Emlyn Williams explores some unusual aspects of the supernatural in Trespass: A Ghost Story, which features Rebecca Wheatley, Judy Buxton, Michelle Morris and David Callister, at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Brian Capron, Corrinne Wicks and Gary Turner appear in Brian Clemens’s Strictly Murder at Malvern Theatres from Tuesday until Saturday.
Recapturing “the passion and controversy of the famous novel and globally successful film”, the 21st anniversary production of In Your Face Theatre’s Trainspotting Live by Irvine Welsh and adapted by Harry Gibson pulls into Leicester’s Curve from Tuesday until Saturday.
Featuring the Lindy Hop Dance Company and The Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm Orchestra, Swinging at The Cotton Club which celebrates the music and dance of the Cotton Club—New York’s most celebrated nightclub of the 1920s and ‘30s—beats a path into Nottingham Playhouse on Wednesday.
One of the professionals from BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, Giovanni Pernice, takes his new show, Il Ballo È Vita (Dance Is Life), to The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Wednesday.
Heartbreak Productions’ adaptation of Frances Hodges Burnett’s children’s classic The Secret Garden is on the road at Dallas Burston Polo Club, Stoneythorpe Estate, Southam, Warwickshire on Wednesday and the Parish Field, Park Street, Market Bosworth, Warwickshire on Thursday.
Birmingham Royal Ballet presents three short ballets, Le Baiser de la fée, Pineapple Poll and Arcadia, at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday.
Ballet Black stages a triple bill of Martin Lawrance’s Captured, Michael Corder’s House of Dreams and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Red Riding Hood at Nottingham Playhouse on Thursday.
Featuring 75 puppets, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show plays at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Thursday and Friday.
A show about ‘60s mod band the Small Faces, taking its name from their first big hit All or Nothing, visits Wolverhampton Grand from Thursday until Saturday.
Big Adventures Theatre Company recounts the tale of the Pentrich Rising, also known as The Last Revolution, when it presents a community play in the Craft Village at Markeaton Park, Derby from Friday until Sunday.
Split Second Productions stages a double bill of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire from Sunday until Tuesday 11 July.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Antony and Cleopatra continues until Thursday 7 September and Julius Caesar until Saturday 9 September; in the Swan Theatre, Oscar Wilde’s lyrical one-act play Salomé, marking 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales, continues until Wednesday 6 September and Phil Porter’s new play Vice Versa (or the Decline and Fall of General Braggadocio at the hands of his canny servant Dexter and Terence the monkey) continues until Saturday 9 September.