John Godber’s unique brand of observational comedy will be in evidence when Reform Theatre Company and Harrogate Theatre stage April in Paris at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Tuesday.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company will condense 37 plays into 97 minutes in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Tuesday.
Northern Ballet performs a double bill of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and Perpetuum Mobile, choreographed by Scottish Ballet’s artistic director Christopher Hampson at the Regent Theatre, Stoke on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Captain Tempest and his fearless crew take a journey into hyperspace and beyond when the New Youth Theatre blasts off with Return to the Forbidden Planet at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Angus Jackson’s adaptation of John Boyne’s novel set during World War II, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, “a heart-wrenching tale of an unlikely friendship between two innocent boys”, tours to Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory and Tobacco Factory Theatres turn Derby Theatre into Verona for Romeo and Juliet from Tuesday until Saturday.
A “gripping theatrical exploration of terror”, Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s novel The Woman in Black visits Buxton Opera House from Tuesday until Saturday.
Leicester’s Curve hosts the revival of one of Matthew Bourne’s most requested productions, the dance thriller The Car Man, from Tuesday until Saturday.
Northampton Royal and Derngate’s Young Company: Immerse explores the theme of spending time with strangers in Kontakt, performed in the theatre’s Underground space, from Tuesday until Sunday.
Birmingham Royal Ballet presents artistic director David Bintley’s first and arguably most famous piece, Carmina Burana, alongside the world première of his latest one-act ballet The King Dances, at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday 27 June.
Little Earthquake stages a “funny, messy and moving new show for everyone who knows what it’s like to feel different”, The Boy Who Became a Beetle, at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Thursday.
Joan Greening’s black comedy Terror in which two courtesans are in prison awaiting the guillotine will be presented in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick on Friday.
Written and directed by Roux Gilbear, Hands Up—Don’t Shoot, a fictitious play in which two New Yorkers on holiday in Ferguson, Missouri are caught up in the unrest after Michael Brown was shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson, will be performed at The Drum, Birmingham on Friday.
Emteaz Hussain’s “21st century urban love story” Blood, a Tamasha and Coventry Belgrade Theatre production, visits the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
Mike Maran plays Sam Young who remembers the life of his friend, Scottish naturalist and explorer John Muir, in Maran’s new play John Muir: Rhapsody in Green at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
National Youth Dance Company is at mac birmingham with Frame(d), a new work created by 2014-15 guest artistic director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui which revisits moments from his established catalogue of work as well as incorporating new ideas and movement from the dancers, on Sunday.
Northampton’s Royal and Derngate and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse’s co-production of Arthur Miller’s “play for the screen” The Hook continues in the Royal, Northampton until Saturday 27 June.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Hugh Quarshie and Lucian Msamati team up to play Othello and Iago in Iqbal Khan’s production of Othello which continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Friday 28 August and plays in repertoire with The Merchant of Venice which continues until Wednesday 2 September; 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.