Civil Brawl Theatre Company stages Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at No 1 Shakespeare Street, Stratford from Monday until Wednesday.
Tall Stories’ musical adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Room on the Broom flies into the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Monday until Wednesday.
Natasha J Barnes is Fanny Brice and Darius Campbell plays Nick Arnstein in Funny Girl at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Willy Russell’s one-woman comedy Shirley Valentine featuring Jodie Prenger is served up at Malvern Theatres from Monday until Saturday.
Heartbreak Productions is on the road with its outdoor murder mystery Murder on the Terrace at Hill Close Gardens, Bread and Meat Close, Warwick on Tuesday, Billionaire Boy by David Walliams at Brueton Park, Solihull, West Midlands on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew at Tuckwell Amphitheatre, Dean Close School, Shelburne Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on Wednesday.
The final offering in the Colin McIntyre Classic Thriller Season, Karen Henson’s new play Marie Lloyd and the Music Hall Murder, is investigated in the National Justice Museum, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
A show about ‘60s mod band the Small Faces, taking its name from their first big hit All or Nothing, visits the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.
The National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company sails into Buxton Opera House with HMS Pinafore on Tuesday and Wednesday, The Mikado on Wednesday and Friday and The Pirates of Penzance on Saturday.
Oddsocks Productions takes its steampunk musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth to the craft village at Derby’s Markeaton Park on Wednesday and Thursday.
Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Miss Saigon has a nine-week residency at Birmingham Hippodrome, running from Wednesday until Saturday 23 September.
Laura Lomas’s new play The Blue Road, which is being premièred in four venues across the UK, will be performed by Derby Theatre’s youth theatre group on the main stage at Derby Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
Jenny Wren Productions presents Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, adapted by Elise Heaven and Jenny Wicks, in the open air at Batsford Arboretum, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire on Thursday, Tuckwell Amphitheatre, Dean Close School, Cheltenham on Friday, The Lakes by Yoo, near Lechlade, in the Cotswolds on Saturday and Highnam Court, Gloucester on Sunday.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Titus Andronicus continues until Saturday 2 September, Antony and Cleopatra until Thursday 7 September and Julius Caesar until Saturday 9 September; in the Swan Theatre, artistic director Gregory Doran revives his version of Shakespeare’s poem Venus and Adonis using narration, music and puppetry from Wednesday 26 July until Friday 4 August, 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.