Bill Kenwright’s new production of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic The Lady Vanishes, featuring husband and wife Maxwell Caulfield and Juliet Mills, pulls into the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from Monday until Saturday.
Audiences will have the time of their lives when Dirty Dancing the Musical returns to Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
Twenty-seven different groups will perform a host of new plays in the National Theatre Connections Festival in the Royal, Northampton from Monday until Sunday.
Andrea Dunbar’s semi-autobiographical play Rita, Sue and Bob Too about “three people involved in a complicated fling” is at Lichfield Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.
The X Factor 2016 winner Matt Terry plays Alex the Lion in Madagascar the Musical at Malvern Theatres from Tuesday until Saturday.
Current Strictly Come Dancing champion Kevin Clifton takes the role of Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Northern Ballet’s new production Victoria brings to life the story of Queen Victoria at Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Saturday while a “heart-warming, hilarious and insightful play”, Inua Ellams’s Barber Shop Chronicles, is at Curve from Wednesday until Saturday.
A “celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope”, Angela Carter’s Wise Children, adapted and directed by Emma Rice, tours to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday 16 April.
Nearly a decade since its last UK tour, Cameron Mackintosh’s Broadway production of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Les Misérables returns to Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday 11 May.
Audience suggestions are transformed on the spot into “all-singing, all-dancing productions with hilarious results” in Showstopper! The Improvised Musical at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Thursday.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea, a musical play adapted and directed by David Wood and based on the book by Judith Kerr, roars into Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday and Saturday while in the MET Studio, Breakthrough Theatre’s one-woman show that “gives audiences a rare glimpse into Marilyn Monroe’s not so private life”, Marilyn featuring Danielle J Gearing, just wants to be loved by you on Friday and Saturday.
A “moving drama of hope, dreams and close-knit communities amid endemic 19th century societal inequality”, Lizzie Nunnery’s 2007 play Intemperance runs at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Friday until Saturday 20 April.
David Almond’s adaptation of his own modern novel Skellig, which follows the story of a 12-year-old boy whose younger sister is born prematurely, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Sunday.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, a gender-swapped version of The Taming of the Shrew, set in a 1590s matriarchal England in which women hold all the power, and Kimberley Sykes’s “fierce, exhilarating version” of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy As You Like It both continue in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Saturday 31 August.