Gary Lucy, Andrew Dunn, Louis Emerick, Chris Fountain, Anthony Lewis and Kai Owen reveal all in The Full Monty at Derngate, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.
Jess Thom who has Tourettes, a condition that makes her say “biscuit” 16,000 times a day, “intertwines comedy, puppetry, singing and incredible tics to explore spontaneity, creativity, disability and things you never knew could make you laugh” in Backstage in Biscuit Land in The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Rumpus Theatre performs a “serving of classic comedy from farce master Derek Benfield” in Look Who’s Talking at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from Tuesday until Saturday.
Cardboard Citizens presents a “powerful and emotive forum theatre show” Cathy, a “provoking discussion and debate inspired by Ken Loach’s pioneering drama Cathy Come Home, at mac Birmingham on Thursday and Friday.
Kenneth Alan Taylor writes and directs his 33rd panto for Nottingham Playhouse, Aladdin, which continues until Saturday.
Joe McElderry who won the sixth series of The X Factor in 2009 takes the title role in Aladdin which continues at Wolverhampton Grand until Sunday.
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.
John Barrowman, Steve McFadden, Danielle Hope, the Krankies, Jodie Prenger and Matt Slack are among the cast of Dick Whittington which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 29 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; 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.