Inspired by a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson and echoing The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stuart MacRae and Louise Welsh’s new opera The Devil Inside plays in the main house at Birmingham REP while BOLDText Playwrights return to The Door with rehearsed readings of new plays, Three Wheels on the Wagon by Tim Stimpson and All is Well by Vanessa Oakes, both on Monday.
Lisa Maxwell is Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow which tours to Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Wednesday.
Introducing “three of Europe’s most daring solo performers from Spain, Italy and Ireland”, The Best of BE FESTIVAL—“one of the UK’s most exciting European theatre festivals”—visits the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Tuesday.
Based on the playwright’s experiences as a tail gunner during World War II, Terrence Rattigan’s Flare Path flies into Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty dances into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Two out-of-work actors fall into the world of debt recovery in John Godber’s new comedy The Debt Collectors, presented by Reform Theatre Company at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Wednesday.
Dyad Productions’ adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel Dalloway, which “conjures the hopes and regrets of middle- and upper-class London” in 1923, can be seen at mac birmingham on Wednesday.
Off the Fence Theatre Company’s Girls With Balls, “a new play which takes a bold, brash look at women, men and the beautiful game”, tours to South Holland Centre, Spalding, Lincolnshire on Wednesday.
Jodie Prenger is Emma in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s musical Tell Me on a Sunday at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Wednesday.
A musical following the journey of a man who at the end of World War II leaves his beloved homeland in search of a better life in America, Ireland’s Call visits Derngate, Northampton on Thursday.
A political thriller set in a world of espionage and secret agents, Kali Theatre’s The Dishonoured is uncovered at mac birmingham from Thursday until Saturday.
Linda Nolan and Cheryl Fergison appear in the parody Menopause the Musical at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday and at the Regent Theatre, Stoke on Sunday.
A show “about how an acceptance of mortality can drive a passion for life”, Learning How to Die, written and performed by Luca Rutherford, will be staged in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.
Next Page Productions presents Calling for Help!, a new interactive comedy from Liz John and Julia Wright which features Caroline Nash and Oli Leonard and is set in a call centre, at Evesham Arts Centre, Worcestershire on Friday.
“The nation’s favourite rock ‘n’ roll variety spectacular” That’ll Be The Day returns to Derngate, Northampton on Friday.
Sh!t Theatre presents Women’s Hour which looks at “what happens when women are given just one hour a day to think about what it is to be a woman” in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Thirty-six young actors from Playbox Theatre will stage Games and Thrones, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s three Henry Vl plays, at Playbox’s base The Dream Factory, Warwick on Saturday 23, Friday 29 and Saturday 30 April.
English Touring Opera is at Buxton Opera House with Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride on Friday, Don Giovanni by Mozart on Saturday and Donizetti’s Pia de’ Tolomei on Sunday.
A new play by Philip Goulding which documents the life of the singer Gracie Fields, Our Gracie continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme, until Saturday.
Ishy Din’s Wipers, which honours the contribution of the one million South Asian soldiers who fought alongside British troops during World War I, continues at Leicester’s Curve until Saturday.
Michael Pennington takes the lead role in William Shakespeare’s King Lear which continues at Northampton Royal until Saturday.
A double bill of plays inspired by the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found, Caroline Horton’s Tranklements and Gold by Francesca Millican-Slater are uncovered in The Door at Birmingham REP on Saturday and Sunday.
Dance theatre company Phizzical stages Samir Bhamra’s Bring on the Bollywood, a musical combining influences from British classical literature and contemporary Bollywood style, in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Saturday until Saturday 30 April.
Blanche McIntyre continues to direct Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, which she feels is “the greatest farce ever written”, at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 30 April.
A “hilarious and not-so-holy story of hope, coming together and finding your feet when your world is turned upside down”, Folk by Tom Wells continues in the Studio at Birmingham REP until Saturday 30 April (press night Tuesday 19 April).
Lucy Jones plays Elle Woods in a new production of the comedy Legally Blonde the Musical at Curve, Leicester which continues until Saturday 14 May.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Paapa Essiedu plays the lead role in Hamlet which continues until Saturday 13 August, while in the Swan Theatre Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, which features David Threlfall in the title role and Rufus Hound as Sancho Panza, continues until Saturday 21 May and Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan share the roles of Faustus and Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus which continues until Thursday 4 August.