“The UK’s number one rock and roll variety production” That’ll Be The Day raves on at the Winding Wheel, Chesterfield on Monday.
David Edgar performs his own play Trying It On, in which the 70-year-old is confronted by his 20-year-old self, at Derby Theatre on Monday while Freckle Productions’ adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Stick Man branches out from Thursday until Saturday and Jadek, based on the true story of how a working-class woman from Yorkshire moved in with her blind, Polish, 94-year-old granddad, can be seen in the Studio on Saturday.
A “heart-warming tale of friendship and loyalty interwoven with original songs and a sprinkling of magic”, the stage show based on Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Tabby McTat is at Buxton Opera House on Monday and The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Sunday.
Inspired by Agatha Christie, Noël Coward and P G Wodehouse, New Old Friends’ comedy thriller Crimes on the Coast, written by Feargus Woods Dunlop, takes a murderous trip to Crewe Lyceum on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Coventry Belgrade Theatre, Curve, Cheltenham Everyman Theatre and Leeds Playhouse co-production of Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette washes onto the B2 stage at the Belgrade from Tuesday until Saturday.
The West End musical SIX, about Henry VIII’s wives, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, visits Malvern Theatres from Tuesday until Sunday.
Fireman Sam and Noddy join Milkshake Monkey for Milkshake Monkey’s Musical at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Wednesday.
Rumpus Theatre Company stages John Goodrum’s “spine-chilling” new play, based on Edgar Allan Poe's “terrifying” classic The Masque of the Red Death, at The Palace Theatre, Redditch, Worcestershire on Thursday.
The National Production Company’s presentation of Simon Reade’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s “emotive and poignant tale of love, loss, friendship and war”, Private Peaceful, tours to the Albany Theatre, Coventry on Thursday.
Neal Pike performs his introspective show Five Years, based on his memories of life at a special educational needs school in Nottinghamshire, at Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester on Friday.
Jim Barne and Kit Buchan’s musical The Season, a “romantic comedy filled with heart-warming and hilarious songs”, has its première in the Royal, Northampton on Friday and Saturday and also runs from Tuesday 19 until Saturday 30 November.
Isobel McArthur’s “adaptation like no other” of Jane Austen’s work, Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort of) continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
A new adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Snow Queen hopes to raise the temperature at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Saturday before the Russian National Ballet dances in with Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker on Sunday.
Goblin Theatre Company finds that when the full moon shines, all the animals come out to play in Hey Diddle Diddle in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Sunday.
Shakespeare's rarely-performed history play King John featuring Rosie Sheehy in the title role continues in the Swan Theatre, Stratford until Saturday 21 March 2020 while Hannah Khalil’s A Museum in Baghdad continues in the Swan Theatre until Saturday 25 January.