The best of Derbyshire’s youth dance talent from schools and community groups will be featured in Interface 14 at Buxton Opera House on Monday.
Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre raves on to Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story on Monday and Tuesday.
The comedy send-up 51 Shades of Maggie, written by Leesa Harker, a “(slightly filthy) journey of love, booze and whips”, will be performed at Derby’s Assembly Rooms from Monday until Wednesday.
Lesley Joseph features in the menopause musical Hot Flush! at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday.
Lucy Speed appears in Amanda Whittington’s one-woman show Amateur Girl, a Fifth Word and Nottingham Playhouse presentation, at Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on Tuesday and Wednesday and Create Theatre, Mansfield on Friday and Saturday.
Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth tour Bryony Lavery’s The Believers to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
A new production directed by Strictly Come Dancing’s Craig Revel Horwood, Fiddler on the Roof which features Paul Michael Glaser as Tevye is at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Birmingham Stage Company presentation of Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden visits Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Matthew Bourne’s original interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake dances into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Navi takes the lead in King of Pop – The Legend Continues, a tribute to Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, at the Belgrade, Coventry on Wednesday.
John Berkavitch presents his new spoken word theatre production Shame at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Wednesday and Thursday.
Leicester’s Curve and De Montfort University stage Mark Ravenhill’s Mother Clap’s Molly House, a “riotously comic, sincerely touching exploration of the diversity of human sexuality”, in the Studio at Curve from Wednesday until Saturday.
East Midlands touring company New Perspectives takes its artistic director Jack McNamara’s adaptation of Saul Bellow’s Him With His Foot in his Mouth to Bishampton Village Hall, Worcestershire on Wednesday, Friesland Performing Arts Centre, Sandiacre, Derbyshire on Thursday, Over Haddon Village Hall, Derbyshire on Friday, Eathorpe Village Hall, Warwickshire on Saturday and Clent Parish Hall, Worcestershire on Sunday.
Stan’s Cafe serves up The Anatomy of Melancholy in Lichfield Garrick’s Studio from Thursday until Saturday.
Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre welcomes back Moscow Ballet – La Classique to its main stage with two romantic dance masterpieces, Swan Lake on Thursday and Friday and Giselle on Saturday, while in the B2 auditorium the Belgrade Youth Theatre presents Evan Placey’s Pronoun as part of National Theatre Connections 2014 from Thursday until Saturday.
Written and performed by Luke Kempner, the first national tour of The Only Way is Downton visits the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Friday.
A “spicy new comedy about love, life, loss and packing”, Egusi Soup jets into Derby Theatre Studio on Friday.
Anton Du Beke dances into Derby’s Assembly Rooms with his new show Ballroom to Broadway on Friday.
The Gramophones Theatre Company presents Playful Acts of Rebellion, “inspired by courageous protesters who risk everything for what they believe in”, at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday and Saturday and Derby Theatre on Sunday.
Birmingham REP’s celebration of the work of Bertolt Brecht continues with a large-scale community production of The Mother, adapted and directed by Mark Ravenhill, on Saturday.
A cast of past principal performers from the West End productions of top musicals including Les Miserables go Beyond the Barricade at Derby’s Assembly Rooms on Saturday.
Blue Orange Arts continues to serve up something wicked in Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday.
Mike Poulton’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities continues at Northampton Royal and Derngate until Saturday.
A homage to Saturday morning television, Never Try This At Home continues in the Studio at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Vienna Festival Ballet presents Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Sunday.
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.
Shelagh Stephenson’s award-winning snapshot of family life The Memory of Water continues at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre until Saturday 5 April.
A new production of Hairspray continues at Leicester’s Curve until Saturday 5 April.