David Graham Productions returns to the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme with another tale of hapless Eric and his multi-talented band of actors and musicians in Eric’s Christmas Party from Monday until Saturday 12 December.
Writer Chris Thorpe performs his political play Confirmation, “a show about the gulfs we can’t talk across and about the way we choose to see only the evidence that proves we’re right”, in The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Touring company New Perspectives is on the road with its festive-themed comedy, Jack McNamara’s He Wore a Red Hat, at Broadbent Theatre, Lincoln on Thursday, Tennyson D’Eyncourt Memorial Hall, Tealby, Lincolnshire on Friday, The Palace Community Centre, Ibstock, Leicestershire on Saturday and Gayton Parish Church, Northamptonshire on Sunday.
Final-year theatre arts students at the University of Derby present their annual Shakespeare offering, a selection of plays called Shakespeare’s Widows, in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
The Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls continues at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday.
Christopher Biggins, Simon Webbe and Ben Nickless head the cast of Aladdin at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Saturday until Sunday 10 January.
West End performers Andy Reiss, David Fawcett, Katie Leeming and Rebecca Vere go Beyond the Barricade at Christmas at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
Sir Peter Wright’s production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 13 December.
A new version of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Sunday 3 January.
Philip Martin Brown, best known for playing irritable teacher Grantly Budgen in the BBC TV series Waterloo Road, continues as Abanazar in Mansfield Palace Theatre’s production of Aladdin until Sunday 3 January.
Scott Ritchie and Birmingham Ormiston Academy continue to stage Treasure Island at the Old Rep, Birmingham until Sunday 3 January.
Tall Stories Theatre Company brings Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s award-winning The Gruffalo’s Child to life at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry which continues until Sunday 3 January.
Coventry panto legend Iain Lauchlan will be donning his frocks again as Dame Clarabelle Crumble in the Belgrade panto Beauty and the Beast which continues until Saturday 9 January.
The Theatre Chipping Norton ventures into Sherwood Forest with a new version of Robin Hood which continues until Sunday 10 January.
Former Curve artistic director Paul Kerryson returns to the Leicester theatre to direct a new production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! which continues on the main stage at Curve until Saturday 16 January (press night Wednesday 2 December).
Nottingham Playhouse panto favourites John Elkington, Tim Frater and Rebecca Little turn again in Dick Whittington which continues until Saturday 16 January.
Birmingham REP is off to Narnia with an adaptation of C S Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe which continues until Saturday 16 January.
A cast of 13 actor-musicians and 24 young performers continue in a new production of Robin Hood and Marian at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 30 January.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Wendy and Peter Pan continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Sunday 31 January while in the Swan Theatre Congreve’s Love for Love continues until Friday 22 January and plays in repertoire with Helen Edmundson's new play Queen Anne which continues until Saturday 23 January.