Lisa Maxwell is Judy Garland in Peter Quilter’s End of the Rainbow at Lichfield Garrick from Monday until Wednesday.
Graeme of Thrones, an “original and unauthorised parody on the international phenomenon that is Game of Thrones”, takes the audience at Nottingham Playhouse on a journey through the Seven Kingdoms on Tuesday.
Influenced by true stories of young Muslim women growing up in West London, The Diary of a Hounslow Girl featuring Ambreen Razia tours to The Drum, Birmingham on Tuesday.
As part of the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival (neat16), Sadler's Wells's “groundbreaking festival of hip hop dance theatre” Breakin’ Convention visits the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Joe McElderry plays the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
On its first national tour, Torben Bett’s class comedy Invincible hopes to raise a laugh in The Studio at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Strictly Come Dancing’s Pasha Kovalev takes his latest show It’s All About You to Mansfield Palace Theatre on Wednesday.
Fantasmagorical musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Wednesday until Sunday 29 May.
Brussels-based Peeping Tom won an Olivier Award for 32 Rue Vandenbranden in the best new dance production category in 2015 and the show returns to the UK as part of International Dance Festival Birmingham 2016, being performed at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Thursday and Friday.
A homage to actress Shelley Duval and director Stanley Kubrick’s controversial process of film-making in The Shining, Dog Kennel Hill Project’s Shelley on a Loop is a Dance4 presentation at Nottingham Contemporary, part of Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival 2016, on Thursday and Friday.
Final year students at the University of Derby recount The Vagina Monologues at Derby Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
Playbox Theatre and Shakespeare Young Company’s production of Shakespeare’s Henry Vl trilogy reimagined as one play, Games and Thrones, becomes a site-specific production at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick from Thursday until Saturday.
Don Warrington takes the lead role in Shakespeare’s King Lear, a Royal Exchange Theatre with Talawa Theatre Company presentation in association with Birmingham REP which can be seen on the main stage at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday 28 May.
Jodie Prenger appears in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s musical Tell me on a Sunday at Derngate, Northampton on Friday.
Tribute Acts, a “hilarious and boldly honest exploration of father-daughter relationships and whether our remembered pasts are in fact a fiction”, is a TheatreState presentation in the Foyle Studio at mac birmingham on Friday.
Tap the Table Productions performs one of Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies as a “rip-roaring” comedy to “reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and promote understanding of one of our great taboos” in Macbeth Gone Mental at the Masque Theatre, Kettering, Northamptonshire on Friday.
British Columbia company Ballet BC stages a triple bill, part of International Dance Festival Birmingham 2016, at the city’s Hippodrome on Friday and Saturday.
Comedy meets jazz when Sleeping Trees performs Western?, featuring unlikely hero Harry Sudds whose trip to the bank descends into the worst day of his life, at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
Dance4 presents Routes, a performance by regional youth dance companies, in the Djanogly City Academy Theatre as part of Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival 2016 on Saturday.
Birmingham-based Stan’s Café continues to première its latest show Made Up in The Door at Birmingham REP until Saturday (press night Tuesday).
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 continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade until Saturday.
Croatian artists and long-term Birmingham residents Tina Hofman and Kristina Gavran, also known as notnow Collective, find that ambition and children both fight for their attention in Wonderwoman: The Naked Truth in the Foyle Studio at mac birmingham on Sunday and Tuesday 24 May.
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; 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.