A new production of the “timeless story of love, despair and hope”, Ghost the Musical visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
Lewis Griffiths (Johnny Castle), Katie Hartland (Baby Houseman) and Carlie Milner (Penny Johnson) will have the time of their lives when they appear in Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage at Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
Legendary Staffordshire funny man Eric returns to the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme with his band of actor-musicians for a “non-stop night of comedy, inspired mayhem and some of the greatest music of the 1960s” in Eric’s Christmas Party from Monday until Saturday 10 December.
Stoke’s Regent Theatre hosts Sunny Afternoon, the story of the early life of Ray Davies and the rise to stardom of The Kinks, from Tuesday until Saturday.
Tom Wells’s Broken Biscuits, a ”beautiful, laugh-out-loud, coming-of-age story”, a Paines Plough and Live Theatre presentation, tours to The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Aakash Odedra Company’s double bill of Echoes and I Imagine dances into Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday and Thursday while in the Studio Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me), a one-man staging of Milton’s epic poem, can also be seen on Wednesday and Thursday.
New Perspectives’ 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 visits Melbourne Assembly Rooms, Derbyshire on Thursday and St Peter’s Church, Cowleigh Malvern, Worcestershire on Friday.
Little Earthquake collaborates with the department of drama and theatre arts at the University of Birmingham on Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando which will be performed in the George Cadbury Hall on the Selly Oak campus from Thursday until Saturday.
The life of a young David Bowie obsessive is dissected in Adrian Berry’s From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Friday.
University of Derby theatre arts final year students present a contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare's The Tempest in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
Lee Brennan is Aladdin and Liz McClarnon plays Princess Jasmine in Aladdin at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from Friday until Tuesday 3 January.
With “the help of a 60cm tall book and lots of humbugs”, an old Dickensian narrator arrives at Mansfield Central Library to tell the tale of A Christmas Carol, “using slapstick, participation and a couple of ghosts”, on Saturday.
Storytellers Libetta, Mabe and Ru narrate The Snow Queen, set against an Eastern European backdrop during World War I, a Little Pixie Productions presentation at Create Theatre, Vision West Nottinghamshire College, Mansfield on Sunday.
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, continues at the city’s Hippodrome until Tuesday 13 December.
Scamp Theatre’s presentation of Julia Donaldson’s Stick Man continues at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry until Saturday 31 December.
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 which continues until Saturday 31 December.
Dick Whittington continues on the main stage at Coventry’s Belgrade until Saturday 7 January while the theatre’s alternative panto, Nick Walker’s Private Dick Whittington, runs in the B2 auditorium from Saturday until Saturday 31 December.
A “breath-taking” new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of adventure and friendship, Treasure Island continues at Birmingham REP until 7 January.
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.
Grease is the word at Leicester’s Curve as artistic director Nikolai Foster directs a new production of the musical which continues until 14 January (press night Thursday 1 December).
Kenneth Alan Taylor writes and directs his 33rd panto for Nottingham Playhouse, Aladdin, which continues until Saturday 21 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; in the Swan Theatre Blanche McIntyre directs The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, which continues until Tuesday 7 February, the world première of Anders Lustgarten’s play The Seven Acts of Mercy continues until Friday 10 February and Aphra Behn’s The Rover continues until Saturday 11 February.