Derby Theatre will experience a “delightful evening of theatrical absurdity” with the arrival of Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense from Monday until Saturday.
Taking their cues from film noir, gangland Britain and the clowning tradition, Pantaloons Theatre Company puts its own contemporary spin on Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the Studio at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Tuesday.
The tenth anniversary revival of Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree drops off at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry and plays in the Studio from Tuesday until Thursday.
David Hasselhoff plays an extrovert, party-going DJ dad and nightclub owner in Ibiza in Last Night a DJ Saved my Life at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
Welsh National Opera’s new production of Bellini’s I Puritani, set in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, is at Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday while the company also presents Handel’s Orlando on Wednesday and Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd from Thursday until Saturday.
Opera North visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham with Rossini’s The Barber of Seville on Tuesday and Thursday, Jenufa by Janacek on Wednesday and Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate on Friday and Saturday.
Single Shoe Productions takes its debut tour of Crazy Glue, created, directed and performed by Filipa Tomas and Bradley Wayne Smith, to the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Wednesday.
Based on the classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson, Eric Gracey’s adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde, set in the jazz age of the 1930s, will be presented at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Wednesday until 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 Lichfield Garrick on Wednesday and Thursday, Albany Theatre, Coventry on Friday and the Concordia Theatre, Hinckley, Leicestershire on Saturday.
Nottingham-based touring company New Perspectives takes its Christmas show He Wore a Red Hat, which features part-time detective, part-time unpublished poet Josh Rogan who is on a mission to save Christmas, to Shirebrook Village Hall, Derbyshire on Wednesday, Eastham Memorial Hall, Worcestershire on Thursday, Melbourne Assembly Rooms, Derbyshire on Friday, Glebe Field Centre, Crich, Derbyshire on Saturday and Kineton Sports and Social Club, Warwickshire on Sunday.
Opera and Ballet International presents an Ellen Kent production, Bizet’s Carmen, sung in French with English surtitles, at Derngate, Northampton on Thursday and Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Sunday.
One man’s “grasp on reality crumbles when the fantasies, memories and monsters of a recent relationship materialise around him, subjecting him to an onslaught of romantic terrorism” in Babel’s You Must Be the One to Bury Me in Derby Theatre Studio on Friday.
One of the UK’s leading all-male dance companies, 2Faced Dance, visits Artrix at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire with Dreaming in Code on Friday.
John Challis, best known for his role as Boycie in the BBC TV series Only Fools and Horses, talks about his life and career in Only Fools and Boycie at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre on Friday.
Highlighting the wealth of skills and talent in the Northamptonshire town, the Corby Youth Arts Slam takes over The Core at Corby Cube on Friday.
Scott Ritchie and Birmingham Ormiston Academy stages Treasure Island at the Old Rep, Birmingham from Friday until Sunday 3 January (press night Tuesday 24 November).
Opera producer Ellen Kent takes a new production of Tosca by Puccini to the Regent Theatre, Stoke on Saturday.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Tom Turner and Nicholas Le Prevost appear in Congreve’s Love for Love which continues in the Swan Theatre until 22 January.