Geese Theatre Company, which develops projects in venues such as prisons and secure hospitals, offers an opportunity to see its work outside its normal settings when it stages Stay, a “challenging insight into one man’s cycle of abuse, the attitudes and beliefs which support it and the impact his behaviours have on those around him”, in The Door at Birmingham REP on Monday.
Ben Richards and Noel Sullivan are in the cast of award-winning musical Rock of Ages which visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
London Classic Theatre is at Derby Theatre with the 50thanniversary production of Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane from Tuesday until Saturday.
Emmerdale’s Ben Freeman plays The Fonz while Cheryl Baker is Mrs Cunningham in the musical Happy Days at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
A new production of the Tony Award-winning version of Irving Berlin’s classic musical Annie Get Your Gun, featuring Emma Williams as Annie Oakley, Jason Donovan as Frank Butler and Norman Pace as Buffalo Bill, tours to Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday (hear our podcast episode on this production).
Opera UK performs Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.
Leamington Spa-based Heartbreak Productions begin the first of three summer tours by taking David Kerby-Kendall’s adaptation of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys 2014 to Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa on Wednesday and Thursday and the Lord Mayor’s Show, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham on Saturday.
Clean Break, Royal Court Theatre and Royal Exchange Theatre join forces to stage Vivienne Franzmann’s Pests in The Door at Birmingham REP from Wednesday until Saturday.
Birmingham Royal Ballet performs Ferdinand Hérold’s La Fille mal gardee with choreography by Frederick Ashton at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Sunday.
Stephen Triffitt, George Daniel Long and Mark Adams are The Definitive Rat Pack when they visit Leicester’s Curve from Thursday until Saturday.
Pasha and Katya, stars of Strictly Come Dancing, waltz into Mansfield Palace Theatre on Friday.
The Festival Players find that something wicked comes to the outdoor arena at mac, Birmingham when an all-male cast presents Shakespeare’s Macbeth on Saturday.
Frank Williams, one of the only remaining cast members of Dad’s Army, will reveal some of the secrets behind the TV series in his chat show More Tea Vicar? at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
Blue Orange Arts continues to stage Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday.
More than 30 professional and community actors continue to perform Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee’s Inherit the Wind at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
Northampton Royal and Derngate’s revival of Patrick Marber’s dark comedy set in the world of amateur poker, Dealer’s Choice, continues on the Royal stage until Saturday.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, the Midsummer Mischief festival of world premières runs in The Other Place from Saturday until 12 July while in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Henry IV Parts I and II continue until Saturday 6 September and 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.
Ballet Theatre UK re-tells Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
David Lonsdale and Sarah Jane Buckley continue in John Godber’s September in the Rain at Lichfield Garrick until Saturday 21 June.