Stephen Chapman is Rigsby in Eric Chappell’s Rising Damp, which tours to Buxton Opera House from Monday until Wednesday.
Celebrating 25 years on stage, Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story raves on at Birmingham Hippodrome from Monday until Saturday.
The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company makes its Wolverhampton Grand debut with a triple bill of The Pirates of Penzance on Tuesday and Wednesday, Iolanthe on Thursday and Friday, and The Mikado on Saturday.
Leamington Spa-based Heartbreak Productions takes its outdoor show Peter Pan and the Lost Boys to Castle Bromwich Hall Hotel on Tuesday and Norman Chamberlain Playing Fields, Birmingham on Saturday and Sunday, while Macbeth starts its summer tour at Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa on Tuesday and Wednesday before going to the Parish Field, Market Bosworth on Thursday, Hartlebury Castle, Kidderminster on Friday and The Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire on Sunday.
Ballet Cymru dances into the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme with Beauty and the Beast on Wednesday.
Birmingham Royal Ballet performs La Fille mal gardee, created by Frederick Ashton in 1960, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Wednesday until Saturday.
The Stage Left and Right intermediate companies at Mansfield Palace Theatre join together in Alan Dawson’s new play Hop Scotch to Wide-eyed Hero, which tells how the Great War separated childhood friends and family, at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Thursday and Friday.
Red Bullet Productions tours Butterfly in Shades of Blue, a romantic comedy-drama which studies how a couple’s relationship changes due to differing aspirations, to the Looking Glass Theatre, Northampton on Friday and Saturday.
Youth Dance England’s main showcase for children and young people, U.Dance 2014, takes place at Nottingham Playhouse from Friday until Sunday.
Curve Young Company presents Honk!, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling, in the Studio at Leicester’s Curve from Friday until Saturday 5 July.
Matribhoomi Theatre’s new season of Punjabiwood comedy plays at The Drum, Birmingham concludes with Paiseyan Di Hera Pheri on Saturday.
Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy Woman In Mind continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Warwick-based Shakespeare Young Company tours The Comedy of Errors to Brueton Park, Solihull on Saturday at 4PM and George Peele’s play The Old Wives’ Tale, reimagined as Old Wives’ Tales, at 6:30PM, and to Brandon Marsh Nature Centre, Coventry on Sunday at 4 and 6PM.
Former Coronation Street actor Eric Potts plays Touchstone and Only Fools and Horses legend John “Boycie” Challis is Jacques in the Stafford Festival Shakespeare production As You Like It which runs at Stafford Castle from Sunday until Saturday 12 July.
Laura Eason’s adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 5 July.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, the Midsummer Mischief festival of world premières runs in The Other Place 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.