Former X-Factor contestant Marcus Collins has joined the tour of The West End Men, celebrating the leading men of musical theatre, which stops off at Birmingham Town Hall on Monday and Derngate, Northampton on Saturday.
The Deranged Marriage, a Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre co-production which has a new cast and updated script, returns to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Gemma Bissix, Jamie Thompson and John-Henry Keating are the cast of Brian Clemens’s Murderous Liaisons, an Elite Productions presentation at Buxton Opera House from Tuesday until Saturday.
New Perspectives takes Tim Elgood’s new play Unforgettable, which sheds light on the effects of dementia on family relationships, to The Castle, Wellingborough on Tuesday, South Holland Centre, Spalding, Lincolnshire on Wednesday, Richmond Villages, Northampton on Thursday and Old Village Hall, Harrington Road, Northampton on Saturday.
Northern Ballet performs a double bill of Madame Butterfly, the inspiration for the musical Miss Saigon, and Perpetuum Mobile (Perpetual Motion) at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday and at Leicester’s Curve on Friday and Saturday.
Three actors perform 35 poems in The Hundred Years’ War: the Somme to Afghanistan, a Midlands Creative Projects in association with Bloodaxe Books and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry presentation, at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Wednesday.
A new production by Proper Job Theatre Company, The Shape of Things to Come, adapted by Kevin Fegan from the novel by H G Wells, is part of Mansfield Palace Theatre’s series of small-scale productions and will be presented at the town’s Old Library Theatre on Thursday.
Armed with a Dictaphone and a pair of wellies, The Gramophones “set out in search of adventure but what they found instead was something better” in Wanderlust at Rolleston Village Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire on Thursday, Walkeringham Village Hall, Nottinghamshire on Friday, Bonington Theatre, Arnold, Nottingham on Saturday and Greetham Community Centre, Rutland on Sunday.
A Ship of Fools Theatre Company looks at life From The Cradle To The Bin, a “hilarious odyssey about being thrown onto life's scrapheap”, in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.
Martin McDonagh’s black comedy A Skull in Connemara, one of his Leenane trilogy of plays, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
The National Theatre’s award-winning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, adapted by Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon’s book, continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.
American writer and lyricist Donna Moore’s show Cougar the Musical which is having its UK première continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre until Saturday.
The Northern Broadsides production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 13 June.
“Heart-pounding music, passionate romance and sensationally sexy dancing” should ensure audiences at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham have the time of their lives when Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage continues until Saturday 13 June.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Palestinian-Israeli actor Makram J Khoury makes his RSC debut as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice which continues until Wednesday 2 September while in the Swan Theatre, John Ford’s rarely performed play Love's Sacrifice continues until Wednesday 24 June and Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta until Tuesday 8 September.