Saint Petersburg Classic Ballet visits Northampton’s Derngate with Giselle on Monday and Tuesday and Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker from Wednesday until Saturday.
Oliver Mellor, Marcus Hutton and Terri Dwyer appear in Talking Scarlet’s production of Frederick Knott’s Dial M For Murder at Buxton Opera House from Tuesday until Friday.
Direct from London’s West End, Thriller Live “takes you on an electrifying journey through the magic of Michael Jackson” at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
The first full-length show from Birmingham writer and performer Amahra Spence, Abuelo follows a woman’s quest to trace the legacy of her “jolly, gambling, allotment-obsessed, storytelling grandfather” and is staged in The Door at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday.
Northamptonshire theatre-makers have been collaborating on new works and the result can be seen in a showcase, Launchpad, at The Core at Corby Cube on Saturday.
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 which continues on the Royal stage until Saturday.
Nottingham Playhouse panto favourites John Elkington, Tim Frater and Rebecca Little turn again in Dick Whittington which continues until Saturday.
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.
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 while in the Studio David Wood’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches continues until Sunday.
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.