Vamos Theatre’s Nursing Lives, “a heart-warming wartime tale of bravery and love, told through physical communication, from the UK’s leading full mask theatre company”, is at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Tuesday, Guildhall Theatre, Guildhall Arts Centre, Grantham, Lincolnshire on Wednesday and Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Thursday.
Jesus Fernandez’s flamenco piece Cadiz which “portrays Fernandez’s personal reflections towards his Andalucian roots” will be performed in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Tuesday and at Deda, Derby on Friday.
The latest productions in Birmingham Stage Company’s Horrible Histories series, Groovy Greeks and Incredible Invaders, force their way into Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Theatre Royal Stratford East production of Joan Littlewood’s musical Oh What a Lovely War visits Birmingham REP’s main stage from Tuesday until Saturday.
Michael Praed, Noel Sullivan, Carley Stenson and Mark Benton appear in the national tour of Jerry Mitchell’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which opens at the New Alexandra Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Octagon Theatre Bolton and Newcastle-under-Lyme New Vic production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives transfers to the New Vic from Wednesday until Saturday 23 May.
Armed each with a Dictaphone and a pair of wellies, three women begin a search to satisfy their lust for adventure which is revealed in The Gramophones’ Wanderlust in the Old Library Theatre, Mansfield on Thursday.
Ginny Davis and James Goldsworthy perform Ginny Davis’s Fashionably Late, a comedy about a family coping with tragedy, in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
Inspired by events in the playwright's own life, Ella Carmen Greenhill’s Plastic Figurines, “a funny and moving new play that explores the relationship between siblings with very different views of the world”, will be staged in Derby Theatre’s Studio on Saturday. (Hear playwright Ella Carmen Greenhill and director Adam Quayle talk about this production in the BTG podcast.)
Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, presented by Nottingham Playhouse, Curve Theatre and Tom O'Connell for QNQ, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
Northampton’s Royal and Derngate and Shakespeare’s Globe continue to stage King John in the candlelit knave of the Holy Sepulchre Church, Northampton, marking the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, until Saturday 16 May.
Jessie Hart, originally from Wall Heath near Dudley, continues as Baby Houseman in the tour of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 23 May.
The Royal Shakespeare Company continues to stage in the Swan Theatre, Stratford John Ford’s rarely performed play Love's Sacrifice until Wednesday 24 June and Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta until Tuesday 8 September.