Matthew Bourne takes a fresh look at his modern fairy tale Edward Scissorhands at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Olivier Award-winning OperaUpClose performs a new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro in an English version by Robin Norton-Hale at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Wednesday.
Featuring “all the swagger, patter and razzamatazz of the original live stage shows”, Rat Pack Live takes Las Vegas glamour to Coventry’s Belgrade on Thursday.
Anton du Beke and Erin Boag are joined by six world-class ensemble dancers in That’s Entertainment at Northampton’s Derngate on Thursday and Friday.
Opera Warwick presents its “most ambitious production so far”, Bizet’s Carmen, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.
Luke Kempner’s parody The Only Way is Downton visits The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Friday and Northampton Royal on Saturday.
The East Coast Boys stage their tribute to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Big Boys Don’t Cry, at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre on Saturday.
A new staging of Roald Dahl’s popular children’s book The BFG continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Dance4 presents two annual events that “bring a blast of dance and creativity, giving young people an opportunity to showcase their work”: N.Dance at Derngate, Northampton on Saturday and Episodes at Nottingham Playhouse on Sunday.
Mary Norton’s family adventure The Borrowers continues at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre until Saturday 31 January.
Jane McDonald, Duncan James, Chris Gascoyne, Gary Milton, Paul Zerdin and Matt Slack continue in “Britain’s most popular pantomime” Jack and the Beanstalk at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 1 February.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Christmas Truce continues until 31 January, and Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (Much Ado About Nothing) both continue until 14 March; in the Swan Theatre, David Troughton heads the cast of Thomas Dekker’s Jacobean comedy The Shoemaker's Holiday which runs until Saturday 7 March while the world première of Tom Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer, about J Robert Oppenheimer, known as “the father of the atom bomb”, also continues until 7 March (press night Thursday 22 January).