Birmingham Stage Company’s world première of David Walliams’s Gangsta Granny tours to the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Monday until Saturday.
Children’s theatre company Big Wooden Horse blasts off with Adam Bampton-Smith’s adaptation of Claire Freedman’s Aliens Love Underpants at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire from Monday until Thursday 24 December.
The Nativity 2015, the first production by The People's TheatreOfTheQuarter and based on the centuries-established tradition of mystery plays, “older than Shakespeare, fresher than EastEnders, telling the ageless story of Christmas”, will be performed at St Paul's Church in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham from Wednesday until Friday.
Derby LIVE and Buxton-based Babbling Vagabonds team up for The Potty Professor’s Christmas Miracle at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Thursday until Tuesday 29 December.
Stafford Gatehouse Theatre’s panto with a “rock and roll twist”, Jack and the Beanstalk, runs from Thursday until Sunday 10 January.
David Graham Productions’ tale of hapless Eric and his multi-talented band of actors and musicians, Eric’s Christmas Party, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
Rural touring company New Perspectives takes its festive-themed comedy, Jack McNamara’s He Wore a Red Hat, to Derbyshire venues Fountain Square Church, Tideswell on Saturday and Parwich Memorial Hall on Sunday.
Kelsey Beth Crossley plays Princess Jasmine and James Holmes is Widow Twankey in Aladdin at Buxton Opera House from Saturday until Saturday 2 January.
Sir Peter Wright’s production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday.
All and Sundry presents Dick Whittington at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire from Sunday until Sunday 20 December.
Potteries-born entertainer Jonathan Wilkes is celebrating his tenth year in panto at Stoke’s Regent Theatre, playing Smee in Peter Pan which continues until Sunday 3 January.
A new version of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Sunday 3 January.
Graham Cole, who played PC Tony Stamp for 25 years in the TV series The Bill, plays Hemlock in Lichfield Garrick’s panto Jack and the Beanstalk which continues 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.
Derby-born Esmé Sears plays the title role in Derby Theatre’s Christmas production Cinderella which continues until Saturday 9 January while in the Studio The Elves and the Shoemakers runs from Tuesday until Saturday 26 December.
Coventry panto legend Iain Lauchlan dons his frocks again as Dame Clarabelle Crumble in the Belgrade panto Beauty and the Beast which continues until Saturday 9 January while in the B2 auditorium a new comedy from Coventry writer/director Nick Walker, Vampomime, the alternative Christmas show for grown-ups, continues until Saturday 2 January.
Hereford theatre The Courtyard welcomes back Jason Marc Williams in Beauty and the Beast which continues in the main house until Saturday 9 January.
Christopher Biggins, Simon Webbe and Ben Nickless head the cast of Aladdin at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Saturday until Sunday 10 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.
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.