Glenn Carter plays Jesus, Tim Rogers is Judas Iscariot and The X-Factor finalist Rachel Adedeji takes the role of Mary Magdalene in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar at Birmingham Hippodrome from Monday until Saturday.
Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap returns to Buxton Opera House for a second week from Monday until Saturday.
The Door at Birmingham REP hosts the world première of Hayley Pepler’s In the Motherhood which takes “a sharp look at the world of competitive parenting and PTA politics” on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Northampton Royal and Derngate production of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World visits Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
Northern Broadsides takes its production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale to the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Nigel Williams’s adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies explodes onto the main stage at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Terrence Rattigan’s World War II biopic Flare Path flies into the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Litvinenko Project examines the day Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko drank poisoned tea in London in 2Magpies’ unusual drama at Leicester’s pub theatre Upstairs at the Western on Wednesday.
Birmingham Stage Company’s latest Horrible Histories stories featuring Groovy Greeks and Incredible Invaders takes over the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Wednesday until Sunday.
Cathy Tyson appears in Michelle Inniss's She Called Me Mother which invites the audience into the life of Evangeline Gardner—a homeless, 70-year-old Afro-Caribbean woman who finds herself living on the streets—in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Thursday and Friday and in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Saturday.
Previously seen only in Dundee, London and New York, vampire drama Let The Right One In, adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne from John Ajvide Lindquist’s Swedish novel and screenplay, will be performed by Playbox Theatre at the Dream Factory, Warwick from Thursday until Saturday.
Written by Zimbabwean-born playwright and poet Zodwa Nyoni, Nine Lives “threads together humour and humanity to tell the real personal story behind asylum headlines” at Leicester’s pub theatre Upstairs at the Western on Friday.
David Hasselhoff appears in the new musical Last Night a DJ Saved my Life at Derngate, Northampton on Friday and Saturday.
Using “a mix of performance, film and Saturday night-style gameshow games”, Sarah Woods’s The Roadless Trip, “an urgent and irresistible invitation to imagine a positive future together” takes a journey to The Door at Birmingham REP, on Saturday.
Single Shoe Productions’ Crazy Glue which “follows the tragicomic roller coaster of a couple’s romance as they move from the blossoming of first love through to the thornier terrain of married life” gets stuck in at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury on Saturday.
The “biggest explosion England has ever known”, at Factory Number 6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire during World War I, is recreated in Arletty Theatre's Swan Canaries which features comedy, music from the era and physical theatre, in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Based on the accounts of refugees including the family of performer Ardi Mejzini, Sanctum is a Quite Right Theatre presentation Upstairs at the Western, Leicester on Saturday.
Don Maclean and Malcolm Stent lead a cast of 13 in Brummegem Pals, “the story of two ordinary boys, their lives, loves and their families caught up in the horrors of war”, which tours to Redditch Palace Theatre, Worcestershire on Saturday.
Best known as Boycie in BBC1's Only Fools and Horses, John Challis reveals anecdotes from his career in Only Fools and Boycie at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Saturday.
Set in 1915, Home Fires Burning features five short plays “exploring the impact of World War I on family life and women’s rights” at the Mockingbird Theatre in the Custard Factory, Birmingham on Saturday and also from Wednesday 11 until Friday 13 November.
Award-winning actress Tara Fitzgerald plays Bella Manningham in Northampton Royal and Derngate’s new production of Patrick Hamilton’s classic thriller Gaslight which continues until Saturday.
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.
Nottingham Playhouse continues to stage one of the most celebrated plays of the Jacobean era, John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, until Saturday 14 November (press night Tuesday 3 November).
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Tom Turner and Nicholas Le Prevost appear in Congreve’s Love for Love which runs in the Swan Theatre until 22 January (press night Wednesday 4 November).