Stoke’s Regent Theatre hosts the touring Dreamboats and Petticoats from Monday until Saturday.
Forced Entertainment’s new theatre piece Tomorrow’s Parties which “imagines a multitude of hypothetical futures” is at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Thursday.
Red Earth Theatre and mac Birmingham present “an action-packed adventure for the whole family”, Emil and the Detectives, which is at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Tuesday and Wednesday and Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Matthew Kelly and Ansu Kabia appear in the stage adaptation of E R Braithwaite’s To Sir, With Love which visits Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Tuesday until Saturday.
Headlong and Nottingham Playhouse’s presentation of George Orwell’s 1984 is at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Paul Michael Glaser plays Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
Roald Dahl’s adventure James and the Giant Peach will be brought to life on the Buxton Opera House stage by Birmingham Stage Company from Wednesday until Sunday.
Michelle Vacciana uses first-hand accounts to explore what it was like moving from the Caribbean to England in the 1950s and ‘60s in Journey Cakes at Embrace Arts, Richard Attenborough Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester on Thursday.
Getinthebackofthevan “stares hard at censorship, propriety and the violence that can erupt when noise is stifled” in Big Hits in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Thursday and Friday.
One of the most successful shows ever to come out of Ireland which has been seen by more than 25,000,000 people in 15 countries, Spirit of the Dance trips into Derby’s Assembly Rooms from Thursday until Saturday.
Vienna Festival Ballet returns to Lichfield Garrick with its traditional production of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty from Thursday until Saturday.
The National Theatre’s production War Horse continues a major UK and Ireland tour at Birmingham Hippodrome from Thursday until Saturday 9 November.
Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall hosts An Evening of Burlesque on Friday.
Leicester’s Curve is one of only five venues to welcome New York-based dance company Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet on its first British tour who will be performing Indigo Rose, Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue and Necessity, Again on Friday and Saturday.
Kaleidoscope Youth Theatre presents Laurence Boswell’s Beauty and the Beast in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Friday and Saturday.
Zest Theatre’s Gatecrash takes the audience and places them in the middle of a fictional teenage house party when it visits Lincoln Drill Hall from Friday until Sunday.
Joe Pasquale, direct from his West End run in Spamalot, takes on the role of Sherlock Holmes in Ha Ha Holmes at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Saturday.
Sora Cool Jawayi Fool, the latest creation from writing-directing-acting duo Jeet and Kaki,will be performed at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday.
Martin Shaw, Robert Vaughn, Jeff Fahey and Nick Moran continue in Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Michael Eaton’s new play about “the greatest celebrity villain of the Victorian age”, Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
One Night in November, Coventry Belgrade Theatre’s play about a family’s harrowing experience of the blitz, which is being staged in the city for the fourth time, continues until Saturday.
Adapted from Terry Deary’s award-wining Horrible Histories books and exploring the Roman Empire from the evil emperors to the gruesome gladiators, Ruthless Romans continues at The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company presents The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham on Saturday and The Victoria Hall, Stoke on Sunday.
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice, MadCap Theatre Productions presents Joanna Norland’s Lizzy, Darcy and Jane at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Saturday and Sunday.
A “moving love story told through music, song and dance which features original choreography and music”, Essence of Ireland is at The Palace Theatre, Mansfield on Sunday.
Claudia Morris stars in Secret Love, The Life and Music of Doris Day, a new musical play which tours to Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre on Sunday.
A double Alan Ayckbourn bill of Time of My Life and Arrivals and Departures continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 26 October.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre David Tennant continues as Richard II until 16 November while 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.