Glyndebourne Tour 2012 stops off at Stoke’s Regent Theatre to perform Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart on Wednesday and Saturday.
New Perspectives is in Nottinghamshire with Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at Sutton cum Lound Village Hall on Thursday, Create Theatre, Mansfield on Friday, Flintham Village Hall on Saturday and Thomas Cranmer Centre, Aslockton on Sunday.
Performers and musicians from the Jane Packman Company take audiences on a ride through memories, events and moments that shaped the past year in The Wake at mac, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday and also from Thursday until Saturday, 13 to 15 December.
Engine House and Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham present the world première of Mike Kenny’s Two Little Boys at Lakeside from Thursday until Sunday, 30 December.
Kaleidoscope Junior Theatre Company features stories from 1001 Arabian Nights in Tim Wright’s The Keeper of the Tales at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre on Friday and Saturday.
The Egg YPT, resident young company of the Theatre Royal Bath, visits The Dream Factory, Warwick with I Am England by David Lane, based on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, on Saturday.
Created to celebrate Birmingham Royal Ballet's 20th anniversary in 2010, David Bintley's Cinderella continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday.
“The ultimate ‘60s Christmas party”, Eric in Wonderland, with David Graham “murdering yet another literary classic”, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday, 15 December.
Panto stalwart Iain Lauchlan returns to Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre in Sleeping Beauty which continues on the main stage until Saturday, 5 January.
Neil Duffield's adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol continues in the Royal auditorium at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Sunday, 6 January.
Tupele Dorgu continues as the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Mansfield Palace Theatre until Sunday, 6 January.
Olivier Award winner Janie Dee continues in Hello, Dolly! at Curve, Leicester until Saturday, 12 January.
Kenneth Alan Taylor’s 29th panto for Nottingham Playhouse, Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, continues until Saturday, 19 January.
Birmingham REP’s production of Alan Bennett’s stage adaptation of The Wind in the Willows continues at the Crescent Theatre, Sheepcote Street, Birmingham until Saturday, 19 January.
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday, 19 January.
Roald Dahl's first children's book and one of his most popular stories, James and the Giant Peach continues at Birmingham Old Rep until Saturday, 2February.
The Merry Wives of Windsor featuring Desmond Barrit as Falstaff and Anita Dobson as Mistress Quickly continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford until Saturday, 12 January alongside the first major stage adaptation of Russell Hoban's book The Mouse and His Child which also runs until 12 January; in the Swan The Orphan of Zhao continues until Thursday, 28 March while the world premiere of Adrian Mitchell’s adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov continues until Saturday, 30 March.