Bold Text Playwrights—working playwrights who aim to create more opportunities and new platforms for their work in the Midlands and beyond—return to Birmingham REP with Doubled Up, new plays Cold Cuts by Nicola Jones and Stephen Jackson’s ellaYella—The Poppera on Monday.
Marti Pellow continues his role as Narrator and Maureen Nolan is Mrs Johnstone in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers which visits Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
Stoke’s Regent Theatre discovers the bare truth when The Full Monty arrives from Monday until Saturday.
Lichfield Garrick presents two ghost stories by M R James, Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad and The Ash Tree which will be performed in the Studio on Tuesday.
Based on John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, Kneehigh’s Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other Love Songs) tunes up at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Two worlds collide when “the scaffolders from hell” descend on a quiet theatre in John Godber’s new comedy Poles Apart at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Tuesday until Saturday.
New Old Friends’ adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s The Falcon’s Malteser, a “hilarious family film noir pastiche following the adventures of the hopelessly inept private detective Tim Diamond and his sharp-witted brother Nick”, visits Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Wednesday.
An original play about the “actual” story of Count Dracula, Dracula’s Ghost spooks Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Wednesday.
Inspired by a German expressionist film by F Murnow, Proper Job Theatre’s Nosferatu “tells the dark and mysterious tale of the sailors in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula as they journey from Varna to Whitby with an unknown cargo” at mac birmingham on Wednesday.
One of dance company Rambert’s best-loved works Rooster, “bringing the rock ’n’ roll swagger of the Rolling Stones to life”, forms the centrepiece of a triple bill which also features Frames by Alexander Whitley and Transfigured Night by Kim Brandstrup on the main stage at Birmingham REP from Wednesday until Saturday; in The Studio at the REP Little Bulb Theatre’s production of Orpheus, “a musical re-imagining of the Greek myth” which is on its first UK tour, also runs from Wednesday until Saturday.
Matthew Bourne’s “gothic romance” Sleeping Beauty dances into Curve, Leicester from Wednesday until Sunday.
The Russian State Ballet and Opera House takes a new adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker to Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Thursday.
Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre and Night Project Theatre present the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Blue Orange Theatre from Thursday until Saturday 7 November.
Los Angeles actor Miles Allen takes a “rip-roaring ride through the greatest television show ever made” in One Man Breaking Bad—The Unauthorised Parody at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Friday.
The “fabulous, award-winning, scene-stealing” Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo who “combine a genuine love of ballet with parody” dance into the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Friday and Saturday.
Opus Theatre Company performs comedy writer David Tristram’s latest work Going Green in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick from Friday until Sunday.
European Arts Company brush up on a new version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted by John O'Connor and Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland and timed to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the publication of Wilde’s only novel, at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Saturday.
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.
John Hinton and Jo Eagle have written and perform a “radioactive musical comedy about the death and life of Marie Curie”, The Element in the Room, at Leicester’s pub theatre Upstairs at the Western on Sunday.
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.
Tennessee Williams’s seminal work A Streetcar Named Desire, which features Charlie Brooks as Blanche and Stewart Clarke as Stanley, continues in the Studio at Curve, Leicester until Sunday 8 November.