Celebrating its 40th anniversary, The Rocky Horror Show featuring Sam Attwater as Brad and Dani Harmer as Janet visits Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Hijinx Theatre presents a “boisterous, contemporary adaptation” of Don Quixote through the eyes of his companion in The Adventures of Sancho Panza at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Tuesday.
Buxton Opera House spends An evening with Birmingham Royal Ballet, which includes The Grand Tour, a tribute to Dave Brubeck in Take Five and Bitesized Ballet, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Part of a one-off series of solo performances called (L)one, Valentijn Dhaenens performs BigMouth in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Rifco Arts and Watford Palace Theatre present Break the Floorboards, a new Bollywood and street dance drama from the producers behind the 2011 musical Britain’s Got Bhangra, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Mark Benton, Lucy Benjamin and Marcus Collins get out the Hairspray when the musical stops off at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday 1 June.
Lottery Lottery, a “healthy wealthy Gujlish comedy, a farcical satire packed with loads of music and dance, poking fun at materialistic aspirations”, is the draw at The Drum, Birmingham on Wednesday and Thursday.
The premiere of East Midlands touring company New Perspectives' Entertaining Angels by Brendan Murray, a "humorous and touching look at the role of the Church in contemporary village life and what it really means to be a Christian in the 21st century", visits Lincolnshire venues Leadenham Village Hall on Wednesday; Market House, Long Sutton on Thursday; Allington Village Hall on Friday; and Leicestershire venues Queniborough Village Hall on Saturday; and Long Clawson Village Hall on Sunday.
Birmingham REP and Black Country Touring take their tasty play Eat!, “inspired by personal stories of war and poverty, feasts and famines”, to four caravans in a courtyard next to the Lighthouse Media Centre, The Chubb Buildings, Wolverhampton from Wednesday until Saturday 1 June.
Idle Motion transports audience members to 1940s England and the secretive world of Bletchley Park in That Is All You Need to Know at mac, Birmingham on Thursday.
Pasha Kovalev and Katya Virshilas step out for a night of glamour in An Evening with the Stars of Strictly Come Dancing at The Core at Corby Cube on Thursday.
A “poignant and hilarious toddle through the highs, lows and sleep deprivation of mummyhood”, The Good Enough Mums Club, a “hysterical, heartbreaking and honest new musical written by actresses and exhausted mothers Emily Beecher and Sally Samad”, will be presented in the Foyle Studio at mac, Birmingham on Thursday and Friday.
University of Derby Theatre Arts students will perform Welcome to Thebes, adapted from Moira Buffini’s script by directors Yvonne Hurt and Darren Daly and set in a futuristic post-war zone, at Derby Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
Sex, scandal and showbiz in 1940s London will be unveiled in Matthew Bugg’s Miss Nightingale—the Burlesque Musical at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Thursday until Saturday.
The stage version of the CBeebies’ television series Grandpa in My Pocket—Teamwork! returns to Nottingham Playhouse from Thursday until Friday 31 May before a nationwide tour.
Composer Janáček fell in love with a much younger woman, the affair stimulating him to produce the quartet Intimate Exchanges and a series of love letters, both of which feature in Intimate Letters with Timothy West and the Pavao Quartet at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Friday.
Blackeyed Theatre Company tours John Godber’s Teechers to the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Friday.
Wolverhampton Grand hosts An Evening of Burlesque on Friday.
Opera North stages an “explosive musical adventure” based on the story by Philip Pulman in The Firework-Maker’s Daughter at Buxton Opera House on Friday and Saturday.
Thunder Road Theatre presents Polis Loizou’s adaptation based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas of The Count of Monte Cristo at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre Studio Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
“More Beckett than Beckham”, Ridiculusmus’s Total Football “tackles the big questions of life - immortality, happiness and why England always lose” at mac, Birmingham on Friday and Saturday.
Ginny Davis performs a double bill of two one-act one-woman plays about modern family life in Home Truths at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Saturday.
The “remarkable true story of a black woman's courage in the face of relentless adversity” is revealed in Blue Mountain Theatre’s The Secret Life of Sissy Tancock which features Terri Salmon, Allison Mason and Wayne “Dibbi” Rollins at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday.
Krazy Kat Theatre Company takes its Japanese bunraku puppet-style theatre show The Waving Cat of Japan, performed by Kinny Gardner, Jim Fish and Tinca Leahy, which is suitable for deaf and hearing children aged three to seven, to Deafconnect, Spencer Dallington Community Centre, Tintern Avenue, Northampton on Sunday.
Ceri Dupree continues in a new production of “Leicester’s favourite musical” Hot Stuff at Curve until Sunday.
Alan Plater's play with music Blonde Bombshells of 1943, a co-production between Oldham Coliseum and Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic, continues at the Staffordshire theatre-in-the-round until Saturday 8 June.
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 revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus continues until 26 October (press night Thursday, 23 May).