Talking Scarlet performs a new comedy by Return of the Saint star Ian Ogilvy, Swap!, at Buxton Opera House on Monday and Tuesday.
English Touring Opera is at Wolverhampton Grand with Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride on Monday and Don Giovanni by Mozart on Tuesday.
Emily Atack plays Holly Golightly in the Leicester Curve production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
Robert Daws, Amy Robbins, Susan Penhaligon, Robert Duncan, Ben Nealon, Steven Pinder and Lucy Dixon feature in the Agatha Christie Company’s Rehearsal for Murder at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Monday until Saturday.
Matt Rickson takes the role of Edna Turnblad and is joined by Claire Sweeney, Peter Duncan and Brenda Edwards in Hairspray which makes waves at Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Long-running television drama series Heartbeat is brought to life on stage at Derngate, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.
Students from Vision West Nottinghamshire College perform Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Tuesday.
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan presents Songs of the Wanderers on a set “featuring three tons of falling, golden rice” at Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Nederlands Dans Theater 2 performs a “vibrant mixed repertoire of work” at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Off the Fence Theatre Company’s Girls with Balls by Ann Richards, “a new play which takes a bold, brash look at women, men and the beautiful game”, aims to hit the back of the net at Lincoln Drill Hall on Tuesday and the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Thursday.
Gustave Flaubert’s complex novel Madame Bovary is “lovingly derailed” by ensemble company Peepolykus as The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! at the Royal, Northampton from Tuesday until Saturday.
Reece Bahia from Coventry takes the lead in Laila the Musical which tours to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Sunday.
Mansfield Palace Junior Youth Theatre presents The Wonderful Smells by Julia Donaldson in the Dance Studio at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday.
Graeme of Thrones, an “original and unauthorised parody on the international phenomenon that is Game of Thrones”, takes the audience at Lichfield Garrick on a journey through the Seven Kingdoms on Thursday.
HND Year 1 students from West Nottinghamshire College tackle John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Thursday.
JOAN, a Derby Theatre production which takes a new look at Joan of Arc and is performed by Drag Idol Champion 2014 Lucy Jane Parkinson, aka LoUis CYfer, tours to mac Birmingham on Thursday and Lichfield Garrick on Friday.
Final year students at the University of Derby perform William Golding’s Lord of the Flies at Derby Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
A new play by Ishy Din inspired by the real story of Khuddadad Khan, the first South Asian soldier to be awarded a Victoria Cross for his bravery at the first battle of Ypres, Wipers can be seen in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade from Thursday until Saturday 21 May.
Original member Jenny Eclair is joined by Susie Blake and Kate Robbins in Grumpy Old Women at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
The latest incarnation of a show that has played to most of the western world, Puppetry of the Penis – The Vegas Show reveals all at Lincoln Theatre Royal on Friday and Wolverhampton Grand on Saturday.
A play exploring the childhood behavioural disorder ADHD, Evan Placey’s one-person show WiLd! is at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
A new production of Gogol’s The Government Inspector, produced by Birmingham REP in association with Ramps on the Moon—a network of seven theatres dedicated to increasing opportunities for disabled people—continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
A “lost treasure of Edwardian theatre”, Cicely Hamilton’s Diana of Dobson’s, a “rags-to-riches story mixing comedy with social commentary and set in the unseen world of overworked, underpaid shop girls”, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
Lucy Jones plays Elle Woods in a new production of the comedy Legally Blonde the Musical at Curve, Leicester which continues until Saturday.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Paapa Essiedu plays Hamlet which continues until Saturday 13 August and Gillian Bevan becomes the first woman to take on the role of British ruler Cymbeline which continues until Friday 12 August (press night Tuesday 10 May); 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.