English Touring Opera returns to Wolverhampton Grand with two new operas, Britten’s Paul Bunyan on Monday and Mozart’s final fantasy The Magic Flute on Tuesday, while ETO in collaboration with the Grand and Wolverhampton Music Education Hub will present the world première of Zeppelin Dreams—the true story of how a Zeppelin airship bound for Liverpool dropped its bombs on Wolverhampton after becoming lost in the fog—on Thursday and Friday.
Birmingham REP marks 100 years since the start of World War I with The Original Theatre Company’s stage show based on Sebastian Faulk’s novel Birdsong from Monday until Saturday.
The Beatles show Let It Be comes together at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Monday until Saturday.
A partnership between the education department at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company results in a performance of The Taming of the Shrew—part of the First Encounter series which is “the perfect introduction to Shakespeare for anyone aged eight and over”—at the New Vic on Tuesday.
Icarus Theatre Collective visits Chesterfield’s Pomegranate Theatre with Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler on Tuesday and Shakespeare’s Othello on Wednesday.
An introduction to Shakespeare for schools, Macbeth – Blood Will Have Blood, is at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire from Tuesday until Friday.
A “fast, furious and funny new family drama about inter-generational and cross-cultural relationships”, Janice Okoh’s Egusi Soup is served up in The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Opera North is at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal with Verdi’s Macbeth on Tuesday and Thursday, Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West on Wednesday and Friday and From Paris with Love including works by Puccini, Brel and Piaf on Saturday.
Physical theatre company Frantic Assembly performs Bryony Lavery’s The Believers, a “thrilling and highly visceral exploration of love and loss”, in the Studio at Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Saturday 29 March.
Birmingham Hippodrome welcomes the Chichester Festival Theatre production of the musical Singin’ in the Rain from Tuesday until Saturday 5 April.
Townsend Productions presents We Will Be Free, a new play about the Tolpuddle Martyrs, at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Wednesday.
Dark Horse, a national touring theatre company which premieres new writing, stages Sing Something Simple (The Greatest Hits Volume 2) at Lincoln Drill Hall on Thursday.
Coventry’s “finest young talent alongside the UK’s brightest professional stars” perform West Side Story in the B2 auditorium at the city’s Belgrade Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
Students from the University of Northampton tackle George Orwell’s Animal Farm in the Royal, Northampton from Thursday until Saturday.
Daniel Bye and ARC Stockton reveal How to Occupy an Oil Rig in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.
Adaire to Dance explores themes of social interaction, lifestyle and routine in Coffee Shop Culture at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Friday.
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, at The Drum, Birmingham on Friday.
Victoria Melody’s solo show Major Tom, which recounts the true story of how she transformed herself into a beauty queen and her basset hound, Major Tom, into a show dog, tours to the Guildhall, Gloucester on Friday and Saturday.
Directed by Ellen Kent, the full Moldovan National Opera and Moldovan National Philharmonic perform La Boheme on Friday and Verdi’s Aida on Saturday at the Regent Theatre, Stoke.
Loosely based on Bram Stoker’s Jewel of the Seven Stars and adapted by Jack Milner, The Mummy, which features Susie Amy, Jason Durr and Dennis Lill, has its world première at Coventry’s Belgrade from Friday until Saturday 29 March.
Ros Connelly’s new play about Emily Wilding Davidson’s death at the Derby, Emily: the Making of a Militant Suffragette will be performed by Elizabeth Crarer in the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Saturday.
Buxton playwright Caroline Small’s The Unknown Land, a “play for one actor and many characters”, will be staged in the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio at Buxton on Saturday.
Edgar Allan Poe's “gripping tale of murder in the dark”, The Tell-Tale Heart, will be performed by Laurence Saunders who shares the stage with sound artist Iain Armstrong who creates live effects and music in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
Three Swedish adventurers head for the North Pole in a hydrogen-filled balloon to explore new lands, map the undiscovered Arctic and plant the Swedish flag at the pole in North, North, North in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Naukar Woti Da, one of a new season of Punjabiwood comedy plays from Matribhoomi Theatre, will be performed in Punjabi at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday.
Lesley Joseph turns up the heat in the musical comedy Hot Flush at Wolverhampton Grand on Saturday.
Celebrating its 15th year, the UK’s longest-running musical theatre concert Beyond the Barricade returns to Buxton Opera House on Saturday.
French troupe Tap Factory, featuring multiple world champion tap dancers who are touring the UK for the first time, stop off at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
Swansea City Opera celebrates The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Sunday.
The Russian State Ballet and Orchestra of Siberia perform Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty at Wolverhampton Grand 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 the musical Hairspray continues at Leicester’s Curve until Saturday 5 April.