Inspired by the music, life and times of Ike and Tina Turner, Soul Sister sets out to prove it is simply the best when it visits Northampton’s Derngate from Monday until Saturday.
London Contemporary Dance School’s 11 dancers will perform a programme of works created by a group of internationally renowned choreographers in EDge 2013 at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Tuesday.
Wolverhampton's Arena Theatre hosts the world première of a new English translation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, presented by UK Touring Theatre, on Tuesday before the production moves to Derby's Guildhall Theatre on Wednesday.
Award-winning choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui unites with Turner Prize-winner Antony Gormley and 17 Buddhist monks from the Shaolin Temple in China in “the first true collaboration between western artists and the Shaolin Temple” when Dance Consortium presents Sutra at Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Michael Fenton Stevens plays Prime Minister Jim Hacker, Crispin Redman is Sir Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Matus takes the role of Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley in Yes Prime Minister at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
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 Buxton Opera House from Tuesday until Saturday.
Maureen Nolan plays Mrs Johnstone and Tim Churchill from Stoke is Mr Lyons in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers at the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Tuesday until Saturday.
Strictly Come Dancing’s Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace will fight it out to become king or queen of the dance floor before reuniting in their own show Midnight Tango at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Sell a Door Theatre Company takes its adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 to the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Wednesday.
Inspired by Michelangelo's sketchbooks, sonnets and figure studies, Drawing Blood, an integrated work of music, physical theatre, film and photography, “explores the process of creativity and creation, revealing some of the artist's most beautiful works”, at mac, Birmingham on Thursday.
The Gramophones Theatre Company is on the road with End to End, its play about three women’s journey from one end of Great Britain to the other, which visits Wem Town Hall, Shropshire on Friday.
Looking Glass Theatre sets sail on the high seas in Treasure Island at Northampton’s Underground on Friday.
Birmingham Royal Ballet makes its first visit to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal with David Bintley’s tribute to Dave Brubeck in Take Five, excerpts from some of the world’s best-loved ballets in Bitesized Ballet and Joe Layton’s The Grand Tour on Friday and Saturday.
A “light-hearted look at the highs and lows of being a parent, from the desire to have a baby through to the first day at school”, Ifs Buts and Babies tours to Aldridge Youth Theatre, Walsall on Friday and Saturday.
Toyah Willcox and Julie Coombe are Hormonal Housewives at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
A new comedy set in Jamaica, starring Tony Hendriks and Ricky Rowe as two homeless men living on the rough Kingston streets, Samson and De Liar will be performed at the Drum, Birmingham on Saturday.
Bob Fox, who has been performing for the past year in the National Theatre production of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse, is returning to his musical roots by touring with a new one-man show, Just an Old War Horse Concert Tour, which stops off at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Saturday.
Gary Sefton’s production of A Midsummer Night's Dream which transposes the action to Edwardian England continues on the Royal stage at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday.
Theresa Heskins, artistic director of Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic, continues to stage her “biggest challenge yet”, Laura Eason’s adaptation of the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days, at the New Vic until Saturday.
A host of showbiz names including Brian Conley and Joe Pasquale come together for a unique evening of entertainment to celebrate the life of the late company manager Ian Sandy in Sunday Night at the Birmingham Hippodrome on Sunday.
Nottingham Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse’s European première of Khaled Hosseini’s first novel The Kite Runner continues in Nottingham until Saturday 18 May.
Derby Theatre’s first professionally-produced show, Lee Hall’s Cooking With Elvis, continues until 18 May.
Ceri Dupree returns to Curve in a new production of “Leicester’s favourite musical” Hot Stuff which continues until Sunday 26 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.