Described as “the brightest star of British-Asian contemporary dance”, Aakash Odedra takes Rising to Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Monday.
English Touring Opera returns to Wolverhampton Grand for the first time in two years with new productions of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte on Monday and Simon Boccanegra by Verdi on Tuesday.
Soul Sister, a new musical inspired by the music, life and times of Ike and Tina Turner, hopes to be simply the best at Derby’s Assembly Rooms from Monday until Saturday.
Jo Stone-Fewings (Leontes)and Tara Fitzgerald (Hermione) appear in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s touring production of The Winter’s Tale at Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
The stage version of Sebastian Faulks's novel Birdsong, a “mesmerising story of love, courage and sacrifice”, visits Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers returns to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Tuesday until Saturday.
Different Animal Theatre Group stages Amanda Whittington’s Be My Baby in Lichfield Garrick’s Studio from Tuesday until Saturday.
Lucy Ellinson plays a resistance heroine setting out to change her world in A Thousand Shards of Glass, “an intimate, surround-sound action adventure for an audience of 30 seated in a circle” at mac, Birmingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
The story of a warehouse, two workers and their obsessions is told by Shifting Sands Theatre in Boxed In at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Wednesday.
Vamos Theatre takes its new production Finding Joy, a “comic and heroic full mask adventure”, to Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Wednesday.
Former principals from the West End production of Les Misérables and the show’s 25th anniversary concert at the O2 Arena go Beyond the Barricade at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday and Wolverhampton Grand on Thursday.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s revised version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) visits Nottingham Playhouse on Friday and Wolverhampton Grand on Saturday.
Mark Homer appears in Tim Firth’s comedy Neville’s Island at Buxton Opera House on Friday and Saturday.
Nomads Theatre Company presents Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, which explores how men survive being held hostage, at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre Studio on Friday and Saturday.
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 Palace Theatre, Redditch on Saturday.
Francesca Martinez outlines her life-changing journey of growing up as “abnormal” in What The **** Is Normal?!, at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Saturday.
A “searing, funny and thought-provoking new play that asks important questions about power and empathy in modern Britain”, The Thing About Psychopaths is a Red Ladder presentation at Derby Theatre Studio on Saturday.
An “innovative, refreshing and entertaining play about the perils and joys of marriage, divorce, dating and children... all at the age of 40”, Life Begins, written by Silvano Griffith-Francis, is at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday.
Opera UK will sing Verdi’s La Traviata in English at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
Ceri Dupree returns to Curve in a new production of “Leicester’s favourite musical” Hot Stuff which previews from Saturday, opening at Curve on Tuesday 23 April and running until Sunday 26 May.
Josephine Tewson presents her one-woman show about her memories of a 50-year career in Still Keeping Up Appearances? at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Sunday.
Chekhov’s rarely performed first play Platonov which has been adapted, translated and directed by Helena Kaut-Howson and given the new title Sons Without Fathers, continues in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday 4 May.
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 and As You Like It both continue until Saturday 28 September while in the Swan Tanika Gupta’s The Empress which offers a glimpse into the world and character of Queen Victoria continues until Saturday 4 May (press night Wednesday 17 April).