John Godber’s sideways look at the National Health Service, This Might Hurt, makes an appointment at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Monday.
Aimed at “making Shakespeare accessible and enjoyable for nine to 13-year-olds”, Macbeth—Blood Will Have Blood, adapted by The Core at Corby Cube’s director Nick Walker, returns to the Northamptonshire venue from Monday until Wednesday.
Featuring the music of the Small Faces, Carol Harrison’s All or Nothing—The Mod Musical is a “trans-generational musical experience” at Buxton Opera House from Monday until Wednesday.
Paul Nicholls, Jack Ellis and Ben Onwukwe appear in Owen O’Neill and Dave Johns’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption at Leicester’s Curve from Monday until Saturday.
Richard Alston Dance Company takes its latest programme An Italian in Madrid and Rejoice in the Lamb to Derngate, Northampton on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Based on the diaries of celebrated politician Tony Benn, the Nottingham Playhouse production of Tony’s Last Tape by Andy Barrett, which features Philip Bretherton, visits Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire on Tuesday and Lincoln Drill Hall on Wednesday and Thursday.
Dance company Motionhouse starts a new tour of Scattered, which explores “humanity’s relationship with water” and “combines Motionhouse’s highly physical trademark style with entrancing digital imagery in an extraordinary interaction between film and live performance”, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday and The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Friday.
Lucy O’Byrne plays Maria, Andrew Lancel is Captain Von Trapp and Jan Hartley plays Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
Tom Grace, Matt Ray Brown and Rory Fairbairn head the cast of Immersion Theatre’s tour of R C Sherriff’s Journey’s End at the Guildhall Arts Centre, Grantham on Wednesday.
Liverpool actor Daniel Taylor plays John Lennon in John Waters’s Lennon Through a Glass Onion at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Wednesday.
A story about memory and free will with a live percussive jazz score, Rhum and Clay’s 64 Squares checks into mac birmingham on Thursday.
All 75 onstage deaths in the works of William Shakespeare are re-enacted in Spymonkey’s The Complete Deaths at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Thursday and Friday.
Tim Barlow reflects on life at 80 in a new collaborative work by writer/theatre-maker Sheila Hill and photographer/videographer Hugo Glendinning in Him in The Door at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday while in the main house Kneehigh’s 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, based on Michael Morpurgo’s book of the same name, runs from Thursday until Saturday 15 October.
The Birmingham REP and Leicester Curve co-production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest gets a “stylish, fresh and contemporary spin” in the Studio at Curve from Thursday until Saturday 29 October.
“The world’s most famous and strangest puppeteers” are heading to Northampton with their latest production, Puppetry of the Penis—The Vegas Show, which reveals all at Derngate on Friday.
Kicking and Screaming, a baby-friendly production for parents and their babies presented by Tangled Feet, tours to the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
Rani Moorthy plays all five characters in Rasa Productions’ Whose Sari Now?, a “multifaceted show that looks at the sari from fresh and unexpected ways”, in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Friday and Saturday.
Russian State Ballet and Opera House presents Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker on Friday and Swan Lake on Saturday at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and Bizet’s Carmen at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Sunday.
Nigel Williams’s adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies has an adventure at The Courtyard, Hereford from Friday until Saturday 15 October.
Tom Wells’s comedy about marriage, families, making ends meet and dodgy plumbing, The Kitchen Sink continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
Eccentric Nottinghamshire aristocrat William Cavendish-Bentinck who hid himself away and was fascinated with tunnels is the subject of Nick Wood’s adaptation of Mick Jackson’s novel The Underground Man which continues in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
David Bintley’s world première of Shakespeare’s The Tempest for Birmingham Royal Ballet continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.
Incomparable detective Charlie Resnick takes to the stage for the first time in the première of John Harvey’s adaptation of his own novel Darkness, Darkness which continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 15 October (press night Tuesday 4 October).
Hugh Maynard is the first black performer from the UK to play the lead role in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd—The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Derby Theatre until Saturday 22 October.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Gillian Bevan is the first woman to take on the role of British ruler Cymbeline which continues until Saturday 15 October and Antony Sher plays the title role in Gregory Doran’s production of King Lear which continues until Saturday 15 October; and in the Swan Theatre, Blanche McIntyre directs The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, which continues until Tuesday 7 February while Aphra Behn’s The Rover continues until Saturday 11 February.