Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller The 39 Steps, which recently completed a nine-year run in the West End, starts a UK tour in Northampton, taking to the Royal stage from Thursday until Saturday 16 January.
Andy Reiss, David Fawcett, Katie Leeming and Rebecca Vere perform songs from The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Wicked, The Lion King, West Side Story, Evita, Blood Brothers and more in Beyond the Barricade at Derngate, Northampton on Saturday.
Derby-born Esmé Sears plays the title role in Derby Theatre’s Christmas production Cinderella which continues until Saturday.
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.
Tony Maudsley from ITV’s Benidorm plays Edna Turnblad and Claire Sweeney is Velma Von Tussle in a new production of the musical Hairspray which continues at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday.
Hereford theatre The Courtyard welcomes back Jason Marc Williams in Beauty and the Beast which continues in the main house until Saturday.
Christopher Biggins, Simon Webbe and Ben Nickless head the cast of Aladdin at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham which continues until Sunday.
The Theatre Chipping Norton ventures into Sherwood Forest with a new version of Robin Hood which continues until Sunday.
Stafford Gatehouse Theatre’s panto with a “rock and roll twist”, Jack and the Beanstalk, continues until Sunday.
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 while in the Studio Nikolai Foster directs David Wood’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches which continues until Sunday 17 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.
John Altman is Captain Hook and the Chuckle Brothers play Paul and Barry Smee in Peter Pan at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton which continues until Sunday 24 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.
Marti Pellow, Julian Clary, Lee Mead, Matt Slack and Andrew Ryan head the cast of “the UK’s biggest pantomime” Aladdin which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 31 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.