Tony Maudsley from ITV’s Benidorm plays Edna Turnblad and is joined by Claire Sweeney, Peter Duncan and Brenda Edwards in the new Hairspray tour which visits Northampton Royal and Derngate from Monday until Saturday.
Tommy Steele features in a new musical, The Glenn Miller Story, at the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Monday until Saturday.
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake, “atmospheric, romantic and beautiful”, dances into Birmingham Hippodrome from Monday until Tuesday 6 October.
Simon Cartwright becomes legendary comedian Bob Monkhouse in a new one-man play, The Man Called Monkhouse, at Northampton Royal on Tuesday.
Expect ”tales of love, lust, murder and mayhem” as Impulse Collective presents a contemporary take on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Tuesday and Derby Theatre Studio on Saturday.
Based on The Beggar’s Opera, Kneehigh Theatre’s Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other Love Songs), written by Carl Grose with music by Charles Hazelwood, visits Birmingham REP’s main stage from Tuesday until Saturday while in The Door Bernadette Russell and Gareth Brierley’s How To Be a Hero also runs from Tuesday until Saturday.
Rosalind Ayres, Nigel Havers, Martin Jarvis, Christine Kavanagh and Siân Phillips reprise their West End performances and are joined by Nigel Anthony, Carmen du Sautoy and David Shaw-Parker, performing as The Bunbury Company of Players, in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Different Animal Theatre group takes Emma Rice’s adaptation of Brief Encounter to the Studio at Lichfield Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.
Based on George Orwell’s masterpiece and created by guest choreographer Jonathan Watkins, Northern Ballet’s 1984 “will change the way you think about ballet” when it is performed at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
“Absurd comedy and grotesque puppetry explore nationalism, leadership and the consequences of using another man’s toilet” in Green Ginger’s Outpost at mac birmingham on Wednesday.
Playbox Theatre opens its autumn season at The Dream Factory, Warwick with Jessica Swale’s Blue Stockings, a “powerful drama about women in 1890s Cambridge fighting for the recognition of their education”, from Wednesday until Saturday.
Dean Chisnall continues his role as the beloved swamp-dwelling ogre in Shrek the Musical which pays a monster visit to Wolverhampton Grand from Wednesday until Sunday 11 October.
Working playwrights BOLDtext presents Selfies—four monologues: In Search of The Unhappy Ending by Liz John, Dark Matters by Nicola Jones, Helen Kelly’s Lowering My Voice and The Other Me by Vanessa Oakes—at the Warwick Words festival of literature and spoken word, in Lord Leycester Hospital on High Street, Warwick on Thursday.
The 30th anniversary special show of “the nation’s best rock ‘n’ roll variety show” That’ll Be The Day has a party at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Thursday and Friday.
Apollo Theatre Company stages the 50th anniversary tour of “one of the biggest and best radio comedy shows of all time”, Round the Horne, at Buxton Opera House from Thursday until Saturday.
In The Hundred Years’ War: the Somme to Afghanistan, three actors perform 35 poems each chronicling times of war and conflict, with verse from aggressor and victim, soldier and civilian, at Embrace Arts, Leicester on Friday.
A story “about being young in a digital world, about being a superhero caught in a web, about being able to spend more time with your friends online than face to face”, And Now: The World! is an OpenWorks Theatre and Company of Angels presentation in Derby Theatre Studio on Friday.
Hecat the Witch Goddess conjures up scenes from Shakespeare’s plays depicting the seven deadly sins in 1623 Theatre Company’s Sinful ShaXXXpeare in the Assembly Rooms, Melbourne, Derbyshire as part of Melbourne Festival on 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” and continues in the Guildhall Theatre, Derby until Wednesday.
Brendan Murray’s “heart-warmingly funny” Seeing the Lights continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
Susie McKenna and Steve Edis’s adaptation of Ian Seraillier’s children’s novel The Silver Sword continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday.
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.