The National Theatre tour of Patrick Marber’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, directed by Ivo van Hove, visits Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
London Classic Theatre’s new production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives can be seen at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.
The second production in the spring play season at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield is Tabs Productions’ presentation of Weekend Breaks by John Godber from Tuesday until Saturday.
Strictly Come Dancing favourites Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace take their new production Tango Moderno to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’s Mamma Mia! visits Northampton’s Royal and Derngate from Tuesday until Saturday 3 February.
Middle Ground Theatre Company presents the world première of Margaret May Hobbs’s adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s Gallowglass at Malvern Theatres from Wednesday until Saturday.
The fifth piece in Theatre Absolute’s Are We Where We Are writing programme, Yellowstone, which is written and performed by Chris Thorpe, receives its première at the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry on Thursday.
Birmingham-based theatre-makers Lucy Nicholls and Antonia Beck shadowed undertakers and talked extensively with hospice patients, GPs and palliative care nurses for The Death Show which premières in The Door at Birmingham REP on Friday and Saturday.
Using a backdrop of famous commentaries, catchy songs and personal stories, Next Door Dance delves into the heart of football in The Beautiful Game in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday and Saturday.
A new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
Beverley Knight is the Fairy Godmother, Strictly Come Dancing finalist Danny Mac becomes Prince Charming, Matt Slack plays Buttons and Suzanne Shaw takes the lead role in Cinderella which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday.
The Russian State Ballet of Siberia is at Wolverhampton Grand with Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker on Sunday, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet on Monday 29 January and Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky on Tuesday 30 January.
Phil Davis plays Ebenezer Scrooge in David Edgar’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol which continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford until 4 February; Adrian Edmondson makes his RSC debut as Malvolio and Kara Tointon plays Olivia in Twelfth Night which continues until 24 February; and in the Swan Theatre, Mike Poulton’s adaptation of The Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris, Imperium Part I: Conspirator and Imperium Part II: Dictator, continue until Saturday 10 February.