A true story about love, Phil Porter’s Blink visits The Door at Birmingham REP from Monday until Wednesday.
Les Dennis, Claire Goose, Gray O’Brien, Steven Miller and Simona Armstrong try to pull off The Perfect Murder in the world stage première of best-selling author Peter James’s play at Derby Theatre from Monday until Friday.
Britain’s most famous short actor Warwick Davis and his Reduced Height Theatre Company perform Philip King’s See How They Run at the Belgrade,
Coventry from Monday until Saturday while in the theatre’s B2 auditorium the Belgrade Community and Education Company will be marking the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth with a production of The Tempest which also runs from Monday until Saturday.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story rolls into Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
The show that’s going to live forever, Fame the Musical dances into Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
Candoco, a contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers, presents a Triple Bill of work by Thomas Hauert, Trisha Brown and Javier de Frutos at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday while in the Studio Daniel Bye’s How to Occupy an Oil Rig can also be seen on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Paul Allen’s adaptation of Brassed Off, a York Theatre Royal, Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Octagon Theatre Bolton production, blows into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Welsh National Opera visits Birmingham Hippodrome with Verdi’s La traviata on Tuesday and Saturday, a new production of Manon Lescaut by Puccini on Wednesday and Friday and a new production of Henze’s Boulevard Solitude on Thursday.
Shifting Sands Theatre flies into Derby’s Guildhall Theatre with Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull on Wednesday.
Crissy Rock, Leah Bell and Dolores Porretta Brown go in for a spot of Dirty Dusting at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.
Opera and Ballet International stages an Ellen Kent production of Puccini’s La boheme in the Great Hall at Derby’s Assembly Rooms on Wednesday.
Untied Artists, led by Jo Carr and Jake Oldershaw who have been making theatre in the West Midlands since 1997, perform For Their Own Good, which gained a Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013, in the theatre at mac, Birmingham on Thursday.
Three “extraordinary players in the fight for women’s rights”, Mary Wollstonecraft, Claudia Jones and Emma Lloyd Sproson, are drawn together to help a woman in her hour of need in a “compelling, funny and moving new play”, Gazebo Theatre’s The Sistren, in the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Thursday.
The Royal Shakespeare Company tours its First Encounter production of The Taming of the Shrew, edited and directed by Michael Fentiman, to the Studio at Curve, Leicester on Thursday and Friday.
After a run at Soho Theatre and Bristol Old Vic, Hattie Naylor’s Bluebeard visits Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Thursday and Friday.
University of Derby Theatre Arts students present Martin McDonagh’s “surreal and disturbing” black comedy The Pillowman in the Studio at Derby Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
Lesley Joseph appears in the menopause musical Hot Flush at Lichfield Garrick from Thursday until Saturday.
The Russian State Ballet of Siberia is at Buxton Opera House with Marius Petipa’s Don Quixote on Thursday, Giselle on Friday and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake on Saturday.
Blue Orange Arts produces something wicked in Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday 15 March, with a separate performance at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Sunday.
Stafford Gatehouse Theatre teases out An Evening of Burlesque on Friday.
A “hard-hitting, poignant yet wryly amusing play about the reality behind the fantasy business, based on real-life stories”, Amanda Whittington’s Amateur Girl which features former EastEnders actress Lucy Speed is at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
Robert Cohen performs his new one-man show High Vis, a tragicomedy about a traffic warden under siege, in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
Library Theatre presents two Alan Bennett Talking Heads, Lady of Letters and Bed Among the Lentils, in the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio, Buxton on Saturday.
Ian McDiarmid reprises the title role in Roxana Silbert’s production of Brecht’s A Life of Galileo which continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
The Threepenny Opera, a Nottingham Playhouse, Graeae Theatre Company, Birmingham REP, New Wolsey Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse presentation, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
Dan O’Brien’s award-winning drama The Body of an American which is enjoying its European première continues in Northampton Royal and Derngate’s Underground Studio until Saturday.
Opera and Ballet International returns to Buxton Opera House with a new production of Verdi’s Nabucco on Sunday.
Anton Du Beke goes from Ballroom to Broadway at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham on Sunday.
Mike Poulton’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities continues at Northampton Royal and Derngate until Saturday 15 March.
A homage to Saturday morning television, Never Try This At Home continues in the Studio at Birmingham REP until Saturday 15 March.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Swan Theatre Mike Poulton’s adaptations of Hilary Mantel's award-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies continue until 29 March.
A new production of Hairspray continues at Leicester’s Curve until Saturday 5 April.