Bob Kingdom offers a chance to experience the electrifying presence of Dylan Thomas’s last lecture tour in Dylan Thomas: Return Journey at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Monday.
Balletboyz returns to Nottingham Playhouse with the TALENT, featuring two dance pieces by choreographers Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett, on Monday.
David Essex stars in the Birmingham REP production of Morris Panych’s The Dishwashers which takes to the Nottingham Theatre Royal stage from Monday until Saturday.
Sam Attwater and Helena Blackman feature in a new production of the classic American dance musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
Northampton’s Royal and Derngate hosts the National Theatre Connections festival from Monday until Saturday.
Black Box Theatre Company stages a “bold and exciting new production” of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio, Buxton on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre should feel pretty when it welcomes the touring production West Side Story from Tuesday until Saturday 19 April.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company takes its production of The Bible: The Complete word of God (abridged) to The Brewhouse, Burton-on-Trent on Wednesday.
Dark Horse Theatre presents Vanessa Brooks’s Sing Something Simple (The Greatest Hits Volume 2) at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Wednesday.
John Berkavitch is joined by some of the country’s “most innovative break-dancers” as he explores the feeling of Shame through a combination of narrative spoken-word, hip-hop and contemporary dance, illustration, animation and music at mac, Birmingham from Wednesday until Friday.
The University of Leicester’s theatre group, LUTheatre, stages William Shakespeare’s Richard III in Leicester Cathedral from Wednesday until Friday.
Physical dance theatre company Gecko returns to Derby Theatre with Institute, “an intimate, funny and moving exploration of what it means to care”, 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 Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham on Thursday.
Leesa Harker’s one-woman send-up 51 Shades of Maggie, a “(slightly filthy) journey of love, booze and whips”, visits Mansfield Palace Theatre on Friday.
A “fast, furious and funny new family drama about inter-generational and cross-cultural relationships”, Egusi Soup, a Menagerie Theatre Company and Bury Theatre Royal co-production, is at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday and Saturday.
Rachel Young invites audience members to become fellow researchers in her quest to find an alternative female identity in The Way I Wear My Hair in Derby Theatre’s Studio on Saturday.
Glass-Eye Theatre stages The City and Iris, the story of a woman who breaks her glasses and takes an unusual journey through the city she thought she knew, in Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Saturday.
A “darkly comic story” outlining “the intriguing puzzle of how six people’s lives interweave and unravel” is told in Laura Lindsay and Peter Carruthers’s Hidden, a Black Toffee presentation, in the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio, Buxton on Saturday.
Birmingham Hippodrome continues to stage the Chichester Festival Theatre production of the musical Singin’ in the Rain until Saturday.
Shelagh Stephenson’s award-winning snapshot of family life The Memory of Water continues at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre until Saturday.
A new production of the musical Hairspray continues at Leicester’s Curve until Saturday.
Wolverhampton Grand hosts The Ceri Dupree Show, a “glamorous evening of hysterical comedy, amazing vocal impersonations and jaw-dropping, eye-popping costumes”, on Sunday.
Buxton Opera House celebrates the popularity of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in Let’s Hang On Sunday.
Forty years to the day since Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest, Mansfield Palace Theatre says Thank You for the Music on Sunday.
Harold Brighouse’s Hobson’s Choice continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 12 April.
An “anarchic” new version of Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera, a co-production between Graeae Theatre Company, Birmingham REP, Nottingham Playhouse, New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and West Yorkshire Playhouse continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 12 April.
The Spanish Golden Age Season at Coventry’s Belgrade, which features A Lady of Little Sense by Lope de Vega in a new translation by David Johnston, Don Gil of the Green Breeches by Tirso de Molina in a new translation by Sean O’Brien and Punishment Without Revenge by Lope de Vega in a new translation by Meredith Oakes, continues until Saturday 19 April.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Henry IV Parts I and II continue until 6 September (press performance Wednesday 16 April).