Susie Blake is The Queen in Fiona Buffini’s Handbagged which tours to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
Music legend Tommy Steele plays America’s most famous big-band leader in The Glenn Miller Story at Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
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 Pattingham Village Hall, Staffordshire on Monday, Farlow and Oreton Village Hall, Shropshire on Friday and Cardington Village Hall, Shropshire on Sunday.
Birmingham REP puts mental health centre stage in Bedlam—The Festival of Divine Madness from Monday until Sunday, with one of the highlights being Ruby Wax’s Sane New World on Sunday.
The 50th anniversary tour of the theatre version of the classic ‘60s radio show Round The Horne stops off at Lichfield Garrick on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Graham Cole and Diane Keen feature in a “bitter sweet comedy that examines relationships, loneliness and humanity”, Steve Wood’s You’re Never Too Old, at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Richard Alston Dance Company takes three works, Stronghold with a percussive score by Julia Wolfe, Mazur which will be danced to Chopin's Mazurkas and Nomadic which “mixes Asian-influenced, traditional Romani singing with the toughness of an urban beat”, to Derngate, Northampton on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Gareth Gates and Michael Courtney lead a cast of seasoned West End performers in Mad About the Musicals at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.
David Tristram’s comedy Going Green should raise a laugh in the MET Studio at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday.
Banner Theatre’s In a Right State! “celebrates the struggles of past generations who fought to create the welfare state and of current generations campaigning to defend our services” in the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Thursday.
Dublin's “number one award-winning music and dance show” The Irish House Party jigs into Lichfield Garrick on Thursday.
The only industry showcase to be sponsored by casting directory Spotlight, MonologueSlam UK, featuring 22 actors who will perform for an audience including agents, casting directors and directors, takes place in The Studio at Birmingham REP on Friday.
Fifth Word in association with Nottingham Playhouse stages Jane Upton’s All the Little Lights which “considers where we find family and how easy it is to slip through the cracks in society” in Derby Theatre Studio on Friday.
The 30th anniversary show of That’ll Be The Day rolls into Buxton Opera House on Friday.
Performed by an ensemble of six women, Flanagan Collective’s Romeo and Juliet will be “full of pounding beats, six-part choral harmony and raucous, reckless love” when mac birmingham presents it in St Paul’s Church, Birmingham from Friday until Sunday.
A one-woman show that celebrates spirituality and sensuality, The Holy and Horny Farewell Tour, written and performed by Tonya Joy Bolton, visits the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Saturday.
Box of Frogs presents FrogSpawn, a “bewitching improvised Halloween treat featuring spine-chilling spontaneity, magical made-up monsters, unearthly unrehearsed utterings and spur-of-the-moment spectres, songs and spectacles” at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham on 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.
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.
X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke plays Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard the Musical which continues at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham until Saturday.
A “new annual celebration of independent and fringe arts”, Nottingham Fringe Festival continues across six city-centre venues until Sunday.
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.
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 which continues until Saturday 31 October.
Award-winning actress Tara Fitzgerald is Bella Manningham in Northampton Royal and Derngate’s new production of Patrick Hamilton’s classic thriller Gaslight which continues until Saturday 7 November.
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s musical Mary Poppins continues at Curve, Leicester until Saturday while Tennessee Williams’s seminal work A Streetcar Named Desire, which features Charlie Brooks as Blanche and Stewart Clarke as Stanley, continues at Curve until Sunday 8 November (press night Tuesday 20 October).