Buxton Opera House raves on to Buddy—The Buddy Holly Story from Monday until Saturday.
Award-winning choreographer, director and dance legend Peter Schaufuss stages two of the world’s best-loved ballets at Derngate, Northampton: Sir Frederick Ashton’s Romeo and Juliet from Monday until Wednesday and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake from Thursday until Saturday.
The fifth birthday season opens in the Studio at Leicester’s Curve with a co-production by the Traverse Theatre, Scotland and Wales Millennium Centre: I’m With The Band, written by Tim Price and directed by the Traverse’s associate director Hamish Pirie, runs from Thursday until Saturday.
George Gunby imagines what happens when John Lennon meets Mark Chapman—the man who shot him—in John and Mark, presented by Elysion Productions in the Pauper’s Pit Theatre, Buxton on Friday and Saturday.
A new musical, The Prodigals: A Man Had Two Sons, written by Joe Harmston and Ray Goudie, continues at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre until Saturday.
John Godber’s new comedy Muddy Cows, which tackles the world of women’s rugby, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
Earl Carpenter, Matthew Cammelle and Stephen John Davis, who have all played The Phantom of the Opera on the West End stage, sing songs from Les Misérables, West Side Story, Spamalot, Kiss Me Kate, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Rock Of Ages, Wicked and The Phantom Of The Opera in Three Phantoms at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton on Saturday and Sunday.
Ballet Theatre UK presents French Can Can at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
Alan Bennett’s latest play People continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 21 September.
The world premiere of the stage version of To Sir, With Love, based on E R Braithwaite’s autobiography and adapted by Ayub Khan Din, continues at Northampton Royal until Saturday 28 September.
The touring production of Disney’s The Lion King continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday, 28 September.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre All’s Well That Ends Well continues until 26 September while Hamlet and As You Like It both continue until Saturday 28 September; in the Swan Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean comedy A Mad World My Masters continues until 25 October while Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus and Mark Ravenhill’s response to Voltaire’s Candide both continue until 26 October.