Ayub Khan Din’s semi-autobiographical account of British Asian life in the 1970s and the clash of cultures between a multi-cultural family East is East visits Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Outdoor touring company Heartbreak Productions has two of its shows at Brueton Park, Solihull: David Walliams’s Mr Stink on Tuesday and Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost on Wednesday.
Madcap Productions tours Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to mac birmingham on Friday and Arley Arboretum, Worcestershire on Saturday.
Zodiac Theatre presents its latest project, Imaginary Lines by Reggie Oliver, at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Friday and Saturday.
Lichfield Garrick hosts Rhythm of the Dance, a live show celebrating the rich history of Ireland and the art of Irish dance, on Saturday.
A festival of plays inspired by the Staffordshire Hoard—the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever found—continues at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre, with double bills of Theresa Heskins’s Unearthed and The Gift by Jemma Kennedy and The Throne by Frazer Flintham and Chris Bush’s Larksong continuing on the main stage until Saturday while in the Studio Gold, written and performed by Francesca Millican-Slater, also continues until Saturday.
Derby Theatre’s “summer festival of theatre with innovative performances, insightful workshops and much more”, DEparture Lounge takes place from Saturday until Friday 31 July.
The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, “the UK’s premier open-air touring theatre company”, performs Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire on Sunday.
Brian Conley takes the lead role in Barnum at Birmingham Hippodrome which continues until Saturday 1 August.
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, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta continues until Tuesday 8 September and Volpone until Saturday 12 September.