Cardboard Citizens performs Kate Tempest’s play Glasshouse, which “invites the audience to go on stage and rehearse alternative scenarios to lead to positive changes”, at mac, Birmingham on Monday.
English Touring Opera visits Curve, Leicester with Mozart’s The Magic Flute on Monday and Paul Bunyan by Britten on Tuesday.
Warwick Davis and his Reduced Height Theatre Company race into Derby Theatre with Philip King’s comedy See How They Run from Monday until Saturday.
A new production of Fame the Musical dances into De Montfort Hall, Leicester from Monday until Saturday.
The Richard Alston Dance Company visits Stoke’s Regent Theatre with The Devil in the Detail, inspired by the ragtime music of American composer Scott Joplin, Rejoice in the Lamb, commissioned to celebrate the centenary of Benjamin Britten, and Illuminations, which “paints a vivid picture of the wild young genius Arthur Rimbaud”, on Tuesday.
Leesa Harker’s send-up 51 Shades of Maggie, the “funniest, sexiest (and maybe dirtiest)” show of 2014, tours to Lichfield Garrick from Tuesday until Thursday.
Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the miners’ strike, Brassed Off, a new production by the Touring Consortium, is at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
Birmingham Stage Company’s presentation of David Wood’s adaptation of Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden digs into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Two of “the UK’s most prolific and revered poets”, Benjamin Zephaniah and Lemn Sissay, who has adapted Refugee Boy for the stage, have created a “heartbreaking and hilarious production that pulses with energy, love, loss and hope”; it visits The Studio at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Marti Pellow plays Che in Evita at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday 19 April.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company gets into the right spirit with The Bible: The Complete Works of God (Abridged) at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.
Tangram Theatre presents Albert Einstein: Relativitively (sic) Speaking which contains “the wurst sausage joke ever” at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Wednesday.
Opus Theatre Company gets into a holiday mood in Leslie Sands’s comedy Beside the Seaside in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick from Wednesday until Saturday.
France’s Compagnie Käfig visits Leicester’s Curve with Boxe Boxe, a “breath-taking show which fuses the noble art of boxing with dance”, on Thursday.
Regan De Wynter’s all-male production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore sails into Buxton Opera House on Thursday and Friday.
Featuring an all-women cast, three pieces of new writing which won a competition organised by Blue Orange Writers, A Stab in the Dark by Richard Price, Michael Edan’s Black Hole and Cradle Days by Henry Nolan, will be performed at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday.
Northern Ballet's latest ballet especially for children, Three Little Pigs, should charm audiences at Curve, Leicester on Friday and Saturday.
Miss Nightingale: The Musical, a “heartwarming and hilarious cabaret-style story of love, loss and hope that wonderfully captures the gloriously saucy spirit of the 1940s”, visits mac, Birmingham on Friday and Saturday.
Kaleidoscope Youth Theatre Company presents James Graham’s Bassett, a “pacy, funny and exhausting look at young people who have inherited a world at war”, in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Friday and Saturday.
A new production of That’ll Be The Day rolls into Derngate, Northampton on Saturday.
Featuring more than 40 smash hits of the ‘50s and ‘60s, Bobby Socks and Blue Jeans jives into Buxton Opera House on Saturday.
Harold Brighouse’s Hobson’s Choice continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
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.
Swansea City Opera celebrates The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
Commemorating its 15th year with a new show, “the UK’s longest-running musical theatre concert” Beyond the Barricade decamps to Wolverhampton Grand on Sunday.
Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre continues to stage the touring production West Side Story until Saturday 19 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).