Derbyshire actor George Telfer appears as Brother Elyas and Gareth Thomas takes the lead in the Middle Ground Theatre Company presentation of Cadfael: The Virgin in the Ice, the world première which celebrates the centenary of novelist Ellis Peters’s birth, at Derby Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Oliver Ford Davies stars in David Wood’s play from the novel by Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom which tours to the New Alexandra, Birmingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Keith Jack takes the lead role in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Derby’s Assembly Rooms from Tuesday until Saturday.
Cole Porter’s timeless classic High Society visits Northampton’s Royal and Derngate from Tuesday until Saturday.
Gwen Taylor and Don Warrington motor along to the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton in Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Russian Ice Stars skate into Lichfield Garrick with Cinderella on Ice from Tuesday until Sunday.
Ballet Theatre UK goes on a magical adventure when it stages Alice in Wonderland at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Wednesday.
Birmingham Stage Company takes Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Wednesday until Sunday.
Laura Turner’s adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, a Hull Truck presentation which features only three actors, tours to Buxton Opera House from Thursday until Saturday.
Playbox Theatre brings together more than 40 young actors from across Warwickshire, the West Midlands, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire to stage the two parts of the Indian epic Ramayana at The Dream Factory, Warwick from Thursday until Sunday.
Stephanie Ridings performs a black comedy about motherhood, loss and a famous pop singer, Me, Mum and Dusty Springfield, at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Friday.
North Worcestershire company Madcap Theatre Productions takes David Tristram's three Little Grimley plays, Last Tango in Little Grimley, Last Panto in Little Grimley and The Fat Lady Sings in Little Grimley, together billed as Little Grimley’s Troubles Tripled, to the Walker Theatre at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury on Friday.
Using the lives of circus artists as inspiration, Upswing considers the onset of age in What Happens in the Winter..., “an arresting mix of aerial, theatre and dance that treads a delicate path through the minds and bodies of two women who refuse to stop flying”, at mac, Birmingham on Friday.
Burlesque makes its debut at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire when Missy Malone and Friends stage their revue on Friday.
The MsFits present their Edinburgh Fringe award-winning show I Spy Mrs Peery, written by Rona Munro and performed by Fiona Knowles, at the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio Theatre, Buxton on Friday and Saturday.
Two original productions created by Corby Young Actors and Corby Young Dancers, To Sleep (A Chance to Dream) and Le Debut, will be presented at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Friday and Saturday.
Three performers “use text and torchlight and unpick the presumed causes of civil unrest” in Worklight Theatre’s How to Start a Riot at Derby Theatre Studio on Saturday.
Joey McKneely’s stage production of the classic dance musical West Side Story continues at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday.
London Classic Theatre continues to discover The Importance of Being Earnest in Oscar Wilde’s play at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
The world première of a new adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s I Was A Rat!, a co-production between Birmingham REP, Nottingham Playhouse, the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, and Teatro Kismet continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, starring Earl Carpenter as the Phantom and Katie Hall as Christine, continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 4 May.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Hamlet continues until Saturday 28 September.