Opera and Ballet International presents an Ellen Kent production of Verdi’s Aida at Wolverhampton Grand on Monday.
Philip Whitchurch plays William Shakespeare and his wife Sally Edwards is Anne Hathaway in Shakespeare, His Wife And The Dog in The Door at Birmingham REP from Monday until Wednesday.
A series of performances by children from Corby in Northamptonshire can be seen in the Shakespeare Schools Festival at The Core at Corby Cube on Tuesday and Wednesday.
When the Eye has Gone, a one-man show written by former Kent and Derbyshire all-rounder turned playwright James Graham-Brown about tragic England batsman Colin Milburn, tours to cricket clubs Leicestershire on Tuesday, Nottinghamshire on Wednesday, Northamptonshire on Thursday and West Hallam Cricket Club, Derbyshire on Friday.
Mike Poulton’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, a Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Northampton Royal and Derngate production, visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Anonymous Is A Woman Theatre Company’s Think of England, a “rollicking new play about courage, bravery and swing dancing”, will be performed at Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek on Thursday and Nottingham N_Space on Saturday.
After four West End runs and tours all over the world, Scamp Theatre takes Stick Man by Julia Donaldson to Coventry for a Christmas season at Warwick Arts Centre from Thursday until Saturday 31 December.
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production of Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky, which has been part of Birmingham’s Christmas tradition for 25 years, returns to the city’s Hippodrome from Friday until Tuesday 13 December.
New Perspectives Theatre Company’s tour of the world première of David Rudkin's adaptation of the M R James ghost story Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You spooks Gretton Village Hall, Northamptonshire on Saturday.
Chapterhouse Theatre Company gets into the festive spirit with Laura Turner’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Saturday.
The Christmas special of “the UK’s most popular rock ‘n’ roll variety show” That’ll Be The Day is at Derngate, Northampton on Saturday.
Marc Bayliss plays Hook, Holly Atterton is Tinkerbell, Adam Moss is Smee and Jessica Punch plays the title role in Peter Pan at Mansfield Palace Theatre from Saturday until Saturday 31 December.
The Theatre Chipping Norton sets sail with a twist on the Daniel Defoe classic, Robinson Crusoe and the Pirate Queen, which continues at the Oxfordshire theatre until Sunday 8 January.
A new adaptation by New Vic artistic director Theresa Heskins of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen continues at the Newcastle-under-Lyme theatre-in-the-round until Saturday 28 January.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Simon Russell Beale returns for the first time in 20 years to play Prospero in The Tempest which continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Saturday 21 January while 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.