Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, the classic American musical set in 1850s Oregon, visits Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Andrew Paul and Corrinne Wicks encounter The Devil at Midnight at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Robert Powell is Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie’s first crime caper written for the stage, Black Coffee which tours to the Belgrade, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
International Dance Festival, Birmingham continues with Sadler’s Wells associate artist Sylvie Guillem’s 6,000 Miles Away at Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday and Wednesday, Aakash Odedra Company’s Murmur and Inked at the Patrick Centre, also on Tuesday and Wednesday, Montreal circus company Les 7 Doigts de la Main with Séquence 8 at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday and Company Decalage with Match and Halfway to the Other Side at the Patrick Centre on Friday and Saturday.
Arguably the greatest musical of all time, West Side Story returns to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday 17 May.
Ballet Cymru presents a “sparkling and refreshing” version of Beauty and the Beast at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Wednesday.
Andy Barrett’s new play The Second Minute, a Nottingham Playhouse production which explores the emotional impact of World War I on the ordinary men who became soldiers and the families they left behind, tours to Nottinghamshire venues Thrumpton Village Hall on Wednesday, Thoresby Riding Hall Theatre on Thursday, Chilwell Arts Theatre on Friday, The Theatre, South Nottingham Academy on Saturday and Harworth and Bircotes Town Hall on Sunday.
Motionhouse’s new production Broken, which examines our precarious relationship with the earth, erupts onto the Buxton Opera House stage on Thursday.
English Touring Opera returns to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry with Benjamin Britten’s Paul Bunyan on Thursday and Mozart’s The Magic Flute on Friday and Saturday.
Mysterious mummies get in the way when Scooby Doo and the Mystery of the Pyramid visits Northampton’s Derngate from Thursday until Sunday.
A “funny, hard-hitting insight on English society, football and comedy today”, England Away by Paul Hodson kicks off at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Friday.
Circling the outskirts of Birmingham on the number 11 bus, two teenagers develop an unusual and unlikely friendship in Rachel De-lahay’s Circles which stops off at The Door at Birmingham REP from Friday until Saturday, 24 May.
Caroline Horton performs You’re Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy, a “tender, comic portrayal of one woman's experience of love and war”, in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Buxton Opera House swings to the sound of the Rat Pack Live on Saturday.
Shelagh Delaney’s “kitchen sink” drama A Taste of Honey continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday.
Northampton’s Royal and Derngate continues to stage the world première of Tamsin Oglesby’s adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s farce Every Last Trick until Saturday.
Komola Collective travelled to Bangladesh to record five women's first-hand accounts of the war of independence in Bangladesh and their stories form Birangona: Women of War which will use physical performance, dance and animation when it is performed at The Drum, Birmingham on Sunday.
The world première of the musical Water Babies, based on Charles Kingsley’s 1863 novel of the same name, continues at Leicester’s Curve until Saturday 17 May.
Bob Eaton’s play I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire!, inspired by the stories of women who worked at a Staffordshire munitions factory, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 24 May.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Henry IV Parts I and II continue until Saturday 6 September while in the Swan Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl continues until Tuesday 30 September and Arden of Faversham continues until Thursday 2 October (press night Tuesday 6 May).