European Arts Company returns to Stafford Gatehouse Theatre with Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted by Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the story’s publication, on Monday.
Fol Espoir takes its World War II comedy, Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, which pokes fun at British eccentricities and the American troops who tried to understand them, to Heanor Baptist Church, Derbyshire on Monday, Pinxton Village Hall, Derbyshire on Tuesday, Anslow Village Hall, Staffordshire on Wednesday, Century Theatre, Coalville, Leicestershire on Thursday, Stoke Bliss and Kyre Village Hall, Worcestershire on Friday, Marchington Village Hall, Staffordshire on Saturday and Winthorpe Community Centre, Nottinghamshire on Sunday.
Leicester’s Curve hosts two productions, Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s musical Mary Poppins from Monday until Saturday 24 October while Tennessee Williams’s seminal work A Streetcar Named Desire, which opens Nikolai Foster’s inaugural season as artistic director and features Charlie Brooks as Blanche and Stewart Clarke as Stanley, runs from Friday until Sunday 8 November (press night Tuesday 20 October).
The world première of the Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Northampton Royal and Derngate production of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Stephen Daldry’s production of J B Priestley’s thriller An Inspector Calls returns to the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Tuesday until Saturday.
Brian Capron and Liza Goddard appear in a new musical comedy The Smallest Show on Earth with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, which tours to the Belgrade, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke plays Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard the Musical and wants to dance with somebody at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday 24 October.
A “new annual celebration of independent and fringe arts”, Nottingham Fringe Festival takes place across six city-centre venues from Tuesday until Sunday 25 October.
BBC Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood and Birds of a Feather actress Lesley Joseph share the role of tyrannical Miss Hannigan in a new production of the musical Annie at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday 31 October.
Rumpus Theatre Company takes its “spine-chilling” new play The Haunted Dolls’ House, based on the ghost story by master of the genre M R James, to the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Wednesday.
Eastern Angles Theatre Company presents its “New Town musical” Parkway Dreams, created by EastEnders writer Kenny Emson and inspired by the city of Peterborough, at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Wednesday.
Jars of Clay Theatre Company stages Moonlight on the Cut, “a story of passion and betrayal, heartbreak and all-consuming love”, at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Wednesday until Saturday.
Written and performed by Andrew “Mulletproof” Graves, God Save The Teen is “a show about growing up and getting it wrong” at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Thursday.
Staffordshire's Fired Up Theatre returns to Lichfield Garrick’s Studio with a “fright fest”,The Hound of the Baskervilles, on Friday and Saturday.
English Touring Opera visits Buxton Opera House with a season of French opera: Pelleas et Melisande by Debussy on Friday, Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann on Saturday and Werther by Massenet on Sunday.
Derby Theatre associate company LaPelle’s Factory invites you “on a hilarious and mysterious journey that crashes through flawed beliefs, pop delusions and odd expressions of love” in Cloudcuckoolanders in Derby Theatre Studio on Saturday.
Cathy Tyson plays Evangeline in She Called Me Mother, an “original piece of drama written in the Trinidadian vernacular” which “poses questions about Evangeline’s life and what it means to be elderly and homeless in our society today”, which she performs at Leicester’s pub theatre Upstairs at the Western on Saturday.
James Phillips’s award-winning play The Rubenstein Kiss which is having its regional première continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
A “colourful portrait of village life in 1970s West Midlands during the era of flares, power cuts and glam rock”, the stage adaptation of Meera Syal’s novel Anita and Me continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 24 October (press night Tuesday 13 October).
A double bill of Alan Ayckbourn plays, a revival of Confusions and his 79th play Hero’s Welcome continue at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 24 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.