The Reduced Shakespeare Company shrinks the world’s greatest sporting events down to theatrical size in The Complete World of Sports (Abridged) at Buxton Opera House tomorrow (Monday) and Nottingham Playhouse on Friday and Saturday.
Hayley Mills and Belinda Lang star in Ladies in Lavender, based on the film written and directed by Charles Dance which has been adapted by Sean McKenna, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from tomorrow until Saturday.
Menace and murder lurk in high places in Charles Ross’s play Dead Ringer at Derby Theatre from tomorrow until Saturday.
Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black, a company “with a passion to highlight and celebrate the talents of black and Asian dancers from around the world”, returns to the Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham on Tuesday with a mixed bill of premieres including Christopher Hampson’s Storyville, a “dark tale of love, corruption and survival set in the nightclubs of 1900s’ New Orleans”.
Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing take their live show Midnight Tango to Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Pantaloons discover The Importance of Being Earnest when they perform Oscar Wilde’s play in the open air at Nottingham Castle on Wednesday.
Featuring a cast of young singers at the start of their professional careers, Opera Holloway presents a triple bill of The Bear by William Walton, Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Telephone and Hand of Bridge by Samuel Barber at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre on Wednesday.
Jon Culshaw is the Voice of the Book in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at Leicester’s De Montfort Hall on Wednesday while Christopher Timothy takes over the role when the show moves to Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall on Thursday.
Dragon Breath Theatre and Leicester’s Curve stage a giant of a show, Gulliver’s Travels, at The Core at Corby Cube on Thursday.
Emerging grime artists and producers Deci4life and Smash premiere their new spoken word theatre show, Same Difference, about a brotherhood of two young men adopted into a Jamaican family, at The Drum, Birmingham on Thursday.
Dare to Diva Productions presents the world premiere of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Diva, a “choreo-poem” written and performed by Leicester’s Carol Leeming as part of the Cultural Olympiad Festival, at Curve, Leicester on Thursday and Friday.
Heartbreak Productions’ open-air tour of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing takes in Twycross Zoo, near Atherstone, on Thursday, Charlecote Park near Warwick on Saturday and Snibston Discovery Museum, Coalville on Sunday.
Northampton Royal and Derngate’s Youth Theatre enters a mythological world of mighty gods, courageous heroes and terrifying creatures in In The Beginning There Was Chaos on the Royal stage on Friday.
Ekatva, a 90-minute dance-drama which is “an experiment to touch the lives and spirits of 16 underprivileged children through dance and art while inspiring the souls of thousands across the world”, will be performed at The Drum, Birmingham on Friday.
London Classic Theatre Company’s production of Peter Shaffer’s Equus continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
James Yarker’s new play The Just Price of Flowers, presented by Birmingham REP and Stan’s Café, continues at A E Harris, 110 Northwood Street, Birmingham until Saturday, 30 June.
Northampton Royal and Derngate’s new version of Euripides’ Greek tragedy The Bacchae continues at the Northampton Chronicle and Echo printing press rooms on Earl Street in the town until Saturday, 30 June while Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding continues on the Royal stage until 30 June.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Julius Caesar runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until 7 July while Richard III and King John both continue in the Swan until 15 September.