London Classic Theatre is at Derby Theatre with Noël Coward’s Private Lives from Tuesday until Saturday.
Rumpus Theatre Company brings the spring play season at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield to a close with John Goodrum’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s The Signalman from Tuesday until Saturday.
Derby-based Oddsocks presents a new adaptation of L Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz at the city’s Guildhall Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Directed by Craig Revel Horwood, Son of a Preacher Man features the hits of Dusty Springfield at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Claire Sweeney, Tom Chambers and Charlotte Wakefield appear in Crazy for You by Ira and George Gershwin at Malvern Theatres from Tuesday until Saturday.
Theatre Ad Infinitum’s “wordless tale of life, death and enduring love” Translunar Paradise which uses hand-held masks created by Madame Tussaud’s senior sculptor Victoria Beaton can be seen at the Patrick Centre at Birmingham Hippodrome on Wednesday and Uppingham Theatre, Oakham, Rutland on Friday.
Bronté Barbé reprises her role as Carole King in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday.
Anton du Beke and Erin Boag go From Broadway to Hollywood at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Thursday.
Gecko Theatre’s presentation of Amit Lahav’s The Wedding, with an “extraordinary ensemble of international performers guiding audiences through a dystopian world in which we are all brides, wedded to society”, goes down the aisle at Nottingham Playhouse from Thursday until Saturday.
The Kneehigh Theatre and Birmingham REP production of Brief Encounter, adapted and directed by Emma Rice, returns to the REP’s main stage from Friday until Saturday 17 February while in The Door Penguins, a new show for children inspired by the true story of two male penguins at New York’s Central Park Zoo, runs from Thursday until Saturday 10 February.
Jacob Lovick and Vita Fox perform Happenchance Theatre’s On Wings, “a love story, a comedy, maybe neither”, a the Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham on Friday.
White Feather Boxer, the story of a Quaker who was also a boxer, written and directed by Siobhán Nicholas and presented by Take the Space, gets into the ring at Northampton’s Royal on Friday while in Derngate Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’s Mamma Mia! continues until Saturday.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has a stab at Julius Caesar in its First Encounters with Shakespeare series in the Swan Theatre, Stratford on Friday and Saturday.
A show which explores “cultural displacement, religious confusions, political paranoia and misplaced masculinity”, Man in the Moon takes off in Derby Theatre Studio on Saturday.
M6 Theatre stages a new production by Mike Kenny, A Tiger’s Tale, in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Sunday.
Opera and Ballet International presents an Ellen Kent production, La Traviata, at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
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 Saturday; 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.