Written by Emmy Award winner Nic Young and featuring Tim Hardy, Icarus Theatre Collective’s The Trials of Galileo, a “witty and sometimes chilling one-man play”, explores the conflict between politics and science in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Monday.
Stan’s Café shot a silent film with Japanese actors in and around Tokyo and have added a “witty, poetic, philosophical and sinister” narration in A Translation of Shadows which can be seen in The Door at Birmingham REP from Monday until Wednesday.
Duncan James appears in the hit musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert which returns to the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Monday until Saturday.
Camera Obscura presents The Secret Dance Club which explores “the vital role of music in dementia in maintaining a sense of life’s story” in the Town Hall, Wirksworth, Derbyshire as part of the Wirksworth Festival on Tuesday.
Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace prepare to dance their final theatre show, The Last Tango, at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.
Single Shoe Productions tours its “touching, critically acclaimed theatre piece” Crazy Glue to the Castle Theatre, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire on Wednesday.
Rachael Young invites you to break out of the box and embrace all that you are in I, Myself and Me in the Foyle Studio at mac birmingham on Wednesday and Thursday.
Globe Theatre on Tour stages Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at Curve, Leicester from Wednesday until Saturday.
Derby Youth Musical Theatre gets into the spirit of The Phantom of the Opera at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Wednesday until Saturday.
Sarah Cameron’s solo performance The Red Chair will be served with “tasty nibbles, lashings of dark humour and a dram of whisky to oil the way” at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Thursday.
Riding Lights analyses climate change in Paul Burbridge and Jonathan Bidgood’s “challenging but fun, urgent but hopeful” Baked Alaska at the Assembly Rooms, Melbourne, Derbyshire as part of Melbourne Festival on Thursday.
Tortoise in a Nutshell and Oliver Emanuel perform “in a unique dome structure” The Lost Things, a play about “losing things and finding things you didn’t even know you were looking for”, in Derby Theatre Studio on Friday.
Sleeping Trees Theatre stages a “hysterical re-telling of the classic gangster mob story” in Mafia in the Town Hall, Wirksworth, Derbyshire as part of the Wirksworth Festival on Friday.
A new dance production that explores “the tempestuous life and work of distinguished (but largely forgotten) Welsh female composer Morfydd Owen”, Sweetshop Revolution’s I Loved You and I Loved You will be wrapped up in mac birmingham on Saturday.
Greg Hicks continues in a “gripping” one-man show about death, desire and Beethoven, The Kreutzer Sonata, at The Theatre Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire until Saturday.
HOOD—The Legend Continues, a new play about Robin Hood which marks the 150th anniversary of Nottingham’s Theatre Royal, continues until Saturday.
Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre continues to present Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II until Saturday.
Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s award-winning adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece 1984 continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
The world première of a stage adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s ground-breaking novel Brave New World continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday.
Set on the Isle of Man, Jill Haas’s Troublesome People examines World War II “through the eyes of conscientious objectors, Jewish refugees and farmers” in the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Sunday until Wednesday 30 September.
Brendan Murray’s “heart-warmingly funny” Seeing the Lights continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 3 October.
Paul Allen’s adaptation of the hit film Brassed Off which is helping to celebrate 40 years since Derby Theatre opened continues until Saturday 10 October.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Alex Hassell takes the title role of Henry V which runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Sunday 25 October while in the Swan Theatre Marina Carr’s new play based on the epic tale of Hecuba which explores “war, womanhood and regime change” runs until Saturday 17 October (press night Thursday 24 September).