Vamos Theatre’s Nursing Lives, “a love story set in the early 1980s of Thatcher’s Britain and the hard-working, heart-breaking, swing-dancing world of the UK’s wartime hospitals”, visits the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Monday.
Shaun Williamson and Emma Barton appear in Richard Bean’s One Man, Two Guvnors at Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
Olivier Award-winning rock spectacular Return to the Forbidden Planet which is on its 25th anniversary UK tour blasts off to the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Monday until Saturday.
A new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar, featuring Glenn Carter as Jesus and Rhydian Roberts as Pontius Pilate, spreads the word at Northampton’s Derngate from Monday until Saturday.
The story of dating and finding Mr Right, Sex in Suburbia, written by and starring Claire Sweeney, visits Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday.
Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre celebrates St Patrick’s Day with the “heartbreaking yet heart-warming story” Essence Of Ireland on Tuesday.
Blackeyed Theatre tours John Godber’s Teechers to the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Thursday and Friday.
The Children’s Touring partnership production of Angus Jackson’s adaptation of John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Alexandra Cassidy, a former member of Mansfield-based Cantamus Girls Choir, stars as Siebel in Swansea City Opera’s performance of Gounod’s rarely performed Faust at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday and Mansfield Palace Theatre on Sunday.
MonologueSlam UK, “the ultimate showcase for actors from all backgrounds and profiles”, returns to The Studio at Birmingham REP on Thursday.
Black, a “provocative and challenging new show from 20 Stories High that digs deep at the heart of racial tensions in the UK today”, will be performed at mac Birmingham on Thursday and Friday.
Marking the 70th anniversary of Fassbinder’s birth, Little Earthquake joins forces with the University of Birmingham to stage The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, a “classic melodrama from the boozed-up, bisexual bad boy of German cinema”, at the university’s department of drama and theatre arts on the Selly Oak campus from Thursday until Saturday.
Penelope RETOLD, “an irreverent collision of classic myth, The Odyssey and contemporary rage”, written and performed by Caroline Horton, is a Derby Theatre production which tours to Lincoln Performing Arts Centre on Friday.
Claudia Morris stars in Secret Love, a musical celebrating the life and career of Doris Day, at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre on Friday.
Homer’s island-hopping adventures “are retold as you’ve never seen them before” in The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey in The Studio at Birmingham REP on Friday and Saturday.
Moscow Ballet La Classique returns to the Belgrade, Coventry with its re-telling of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty on Friday and Saturday.
Blue Orange Arts stages Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday afternoon (evening performance sold out).
True-life memories of colonial India are shared in Lavender Junction, a one-woman show written and performed by Lisa Stenhouse at Leicester’s pub theatre Upstairs at the Western on Saturday.
Writer and director Polly Teale transports Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Little Mermaid to a contemporary setting in Mermaid which continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
The musical Top Hat continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.
A new version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, adapted by Theresa Heskins, the artistic director of Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic, continues in the Staffordshire theatre-in-the-round until Saturday 28 March.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ - The Musical continues at Leicester’s Curve Theatre until Saturday 4 April (press night Tuesday 17 March).