Louise Jameson plays Mrs Boyle in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at Derby Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Opera North stages the entire Wagner masterpiece The Ring Cycle, with more than 100 musicians performing 15 hours of music in four instalments, at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
London Classic Theatre presents Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday.
Level 2 performing arts students from West Nottinghamshire College perform Sharman MacDonald’s After Juliet, outlining a tense truce between the Capulets and the Montagues after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Tuesday.
Derby-based company Oddsocks delivers a “high-octane musical version of Shakespeare’s battle of the sexes” Much Ado About Nothing at Lichfield Garrick on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Birmingham Stage Company’s Horrible Histories stories about the Groovy Greeks and Incredible Invaders pitches up at Derngate, Northampton from Tuesday until Saturday.
A performance that examines being “cool”, Lewys Holt’s semi-autobiographical show Of, or At a Fairly Low Temperature mixes contemporary dance with storytelling and comedy in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Wednesday.
Written and directed by Birmingham REP associate director Alexander Zeldin, Beyond Caring, a “brutally honest play which exposes stories of an invisible class”, will be performed in the paint shop at the REP, with the audience seated on the stage of the main auditorium, from Wednesday until Saturday.
Baba Israel, Leo Kay and YAKO 440 take The Spinning Wheel, their multi-media performance exploring the life of Steve Ben Israel, poet, jazz musician, countercultural activist and member of the performance collective The Living Theatre, to mac birmingham on Thursday.
Rachael Young presents her autobiographical show about what it means to be a single woman in her 30s and how we can challenge the social conditions that hold us back in I, Myself & Me in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Thursday.
Rebecca Vaughan explores Queen Elizabeth I’s struggle to reconcile the desires of womanhood with the duties of sovereignty in I, Elizabeth at Lichfield Garrick on Thursday and Friday.
Spymonkey performs all 75 onstage deaths in the works of William Shakespeare in The Complete Deaths at Nottingham Playhouse from Thursday until Saturday.
Welsh National Opera celebrates its 70th birthday with a double bill, Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, at Birmingham Hippodrome on Thursday and Saturday, and In Parenthesis, British composer Iain Bell’s adaptation of the epic poem by Welsh poet, writer and artist David Jones, on Friday.
Set in a bathroom, Nobody’s Home is a “unique and striking exploration of post-traumatic stress disorder” in a modern retelling of Homer’s Odyssey in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.
Written and performed by Nick Wood, A Girl with a Book, which features a writer looking for answers to help him tell the story of three girls shot in Pakistan for wanting to go to school, opens up in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday.
Northern Ballet takes its adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre to Wolverhampton Grand on Friday and Saturday.
Plays in the Park performs Shakespeare’s Henry V in The Park, Nottingham from Friday until Sunday.
The world première of Roy Williams’s play Soul which explores the unconventional life of Marvin Gaye continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday.
Bethany Goodman, Charlotte Fox, James Nicholas and Matthew Tweedale form the cast of Blue Orange Theatre’s production of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland which continues until Saturday.
Rona Munro’s modern trilogy The James Plays, which brings to life three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the 15th century, is staged at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham on Saturday and Sunday.
Steven Arnold, best known as Ashley Peacock in Coronation Street, is Charlie Chaplin’s brother in the “heart-warming and hilarious musical” Chaplin—The Charlie Chaplin Story at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
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, Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan share the roles of Faustus and Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus which continues until Thursday 4 August while Ben Jonson’s satire The Alchemist continues until Saturday 6 August.