Joined live on stage by a full brass band, Rambert presents Dark Arteries, a “powerful, emotion-filled work about community and change” inspired by the 30th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Thursday.
Tall Stories Theatre Company takes its adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Gruffalo’s Child to The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire from Tuesday until Thursday.
Lisa Maxwell plays Judy Garland in a new UK tour of End of The Rainbow which is at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Middle Ground Theatre Company’s production of the Miss Marple mystery A Murder is Announced, with Judy Cornwell and Diane Fletcher, makes the news at Lichfield Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.
Nigel Williams’s adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies crash-lands at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Actors of Dionysus stages a “high-octane, hugely enjoyable and bang up-to-date take” on the Greek classic Lysistrata by Aristophanes at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.
The first show of a new theatre series at Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, Staffordshire will be Rabbit Theatre’s Dracula, based on the novel by Bram Stoker and performed by David Mynne, on Wednesday.
Penguin Theatre’s new show Later, After, which “lays bare the impact of doing a job that’s beyond stressful, surviving war, then having to face the culture shock of the transition from military to civilian life”, written by Jane Harvey-Berrick and Mike Speirs, featuring Neil Anthony and Flora Sowerby, visits Create Theatre, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire on Wednesday.
Kenneth MacMillan’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, set to Prokofiev’s score, continues Birmingham Royal Ballet’s 2016 Shakespeare celebration at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday.
More than 60 dance groups from across Staffordshire will perform routines which take inspiration from Stoke City Council’s celebrations for European City of Sport in the Regent Theatre's 016 Dance Festival from Wednesday until Saturday 5 March.
“The nation's favourite ballroom couple” Anton du Beke and Erin Boag find that they Just Gotta Dance in the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Thursday.
A “gender-bending evening of seductive and provocative dance” is in store when mac birmingham presents DeNada Dance with Ham and Passion on Thursday.
Hardeep Singh Kohli and Caroline Lennon feature in Seabright Productions’ Outings by Matthew Baldwin and Thomas Hescott, “the world's first show based on coming-out stories”, at Leicester’s Curve on Thursday and Friday.
One of the first British African theatre companies, Tiata Fahodzi stages i know all the secrets in my world, a “heartbreaking play that invites you into the home of a father and son after the bricks come crashing down around them following the loss of their wife and mother”, at The Drum, Birmingham on Thursday and Friday.
A one-woman show from writer-performer Manjeet Mann, Flying Solo is a semi-autobiographical story about family, survival, guilt and self-delusion in The Door at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday.
Hip-hop dance company ZooNation premières its new production Into the Hoods: Remixed at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton from Thursday until Saturday.
Touring company LipService gives Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray a modern twist to observe the hazards of ageing in the public eye in The Picture of Doreen Gray at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday.
Nicholas Farrell, Belinda Lang and David Robb feature in a new production of Alan Bennett’s comedy Single Spies which continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Peter Whelan’s play The Herbal Bed which explores the secret life of Shakespeare’s daughter continues at Northampton Royal and Derngate until Saturday.
Northern Broadsides’ new version of William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives, featuring its artistic director Barrie Rutter as Sir John Falstaff, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play for the Nation which features amateurs performing as the Mechanicals alongside professional actors runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Saturday 5 March while in the Swan Theatre, Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan share the roles of Faustus and Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus which continues until Thursday 4 August.