The Original Theatre Company takes Jerome K Jerome’s ripping yarn Three Men in a Boat to Buxton Opera House on Monday.
Rumpus Theatre stages John Goodrum’s “haunting” new play The Ghost’s Touch at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Cheek by Jowl returns to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal with John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore from Tuesday until Saturday.
London Classic Theatre discovers The Importance of Being Earnest at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Northern Broadsides visits Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic with Deborah McAndrew’s adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s A Government Inspector from Tuesday until Saturday.
Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son gets the Red Dog Productions’ treatment at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Wednesday.
Robert Lloyd Parry delivers a shiver to Lichfield Garrick with his retelling of four tales by M R James, Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad and The Ash Tree on Wednesday, and Count Magnus and Number 13 on Thursday.
Blackeyed Theatre in association with South Hill Park tours Mother Courage And Her Children by Bertolt Brecht and translated by Lee Hall to Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Wednesday and Buxton Opera House on Friday.
Welsh National Opera is at Birmingham Hippodrome with Handel’s Jephtha on Wednesday, Puccini’s La bohème on Thursday and Saturday, and Così fan tutte by Mozart on Friday.
2 Headed Pigeon Productions presents Threadbare Greebo at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Thursday.
All-male Shakespeare company Propeller returns to Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre with Twelfth Night from Thursday until Saturday.
Based on Shakespeare’s sonnets, L.O.V.E , an “immoderate Shakespearean ménage á trois with a touch of Shirley Bassey” and presented by Volcano, tours to Derby Theatre Studio on Friday and Saturday.
Jenny Stephens’s new play Wounded, part of Birmingham REP’s off-site season, continues at the Territorial Army Field Hospital, Kings Heath, Birmingham until Saturday.
Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage, a “riotous comedy of frayed nerves and bloated egos”, continues at the Royal, Northampton until Saturday.
William Inge’s drama The Dark at the Top of the Stairs which “hasn’t been seen in England for over a generation” continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre until Saturday.
John Steinbeck’s powerful tale of two outsiders in search of the American Dream, Of Mice and Men, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday, 17 November.
Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton’s comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane continues at Curve, Leicester until Saturday, 24 November.
The Merry Wives of Windsor featuring Desmond Barrit as Falstaff and Anita Dobson, making her RSC debut as Mistress Quickly, continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford until Saturday, 12 January while in the Swan The Orphan of Zhao continues until Thursday, 28 March.