A new production of the rock ‘n’ roll variety show That’ll Be The Day takes a trip down memory lane at Buxton Opera House tomorrow (Monday).
The first UK tour of Alan Ayckbourn’s Haunting Julia which features Duncan Preston, Richard O’Callaghan, Joe McFadden and Louise Kempton stops off at Derby Theatre from tomorrow until Saturday.
Liza Goddard and Gemma Bissix hope they’re on a winner in John Chapman’s horse-racing farce Dry Rot at Coventry’s Belgrade from tomorrow until Saturday.
Featuring some of the greatest songs from the rock ‘n’ roll era, Dreamboats and Petticoats tours to the Regent Theatre, Stoke from tomorrow until Saturday.
Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers returns to Birmingham Hippodrome for a two-week run from tomorrow until Saturday, 3 November.
Jane Upton’s first play Bones, “an achingly honest portrayal of a boy struggling to find his place in a world that doesn’t want him”, tours to Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire on Tuesday and The Core at Corby Cube on Friday.
Alan Sillitoe’s The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, adapted for the stage by Roy Williams for Pilot Theatre in association with York Theatre Royal, runs at Nottingham Playhouse from Tuesday until Saturday.
Bill Kenwright’s production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat brightens up the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Robert Bathurst, Gerald McCarthy and Oliver Wilson appear in Joe Penhall’s award-winning Blue/Orange at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Nottinghamshire actor Maurice Roeves takes on the role of the real Lady Chatterley's Lover and reveals the hidden truths behind D H Lawrence's forbidden paintings in Stephen Lowe’s new comedy Just a Gigolo at Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts Centre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Coventry writer Naomi Said will perform her new play The Wedge in Theatre Absolute’s Shop Front Theatre in City Arcade, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Icarus Theatre Collective stages a “bold and exciting new production” of Shakespeare’s most tragic tale Romeo & Juliet at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.
Back by popular demand, An Audience with Pam Ayres returns to Mansfield Palace Theatre on Wednesday.
Shane Shambhu Company, which creates “dynamic visual theatre rooted in the traditional South Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam”, will be staging Leaving Only A Trace at mac, Birmingham on Thursday.
James Hyland takes his one-man show Fagin’s Last Hour, Charles Dickens’s tale of crime and punishment told from Fagin’s point of view and set an hour before his execution, to Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Thursday and Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday.
Looking Glass Theatre presents its new interpretation of Michael Napier‑Brown's adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights at Northampton Royal and Derngate’s Underground auditorium on Friday.
ThickSkin performs The Static by Davey Anderson, a “kinetic coming-of-age story about desire, guilt and mind over matter”, at mac, Birmingham on Friday.
The Rat Pack Live swing into the Meres Leisure Centre, Grantham, Lincolnshire on Saturday.
Russian State Ballet and Opera House dances into Derby’s Assembly Rooms with Sleeping Beauty on Saturday.
Vienna Festival Ballet returns to Artrix, Bromsgrove on Saturday to present Delibes’ Coppelia.
Eat!, a new play featuring dozens of stories about food, continues in the courtyard of the Roundhouse, Birmingham as part of the REP’s off-site season until Saturday.
Music by Bizet stages Carmen, a new English version written and directed by Peter Knapp, at Buxton Opera House next Sunday.
Alan Ayckbourn’s revival of Absurd Person Singular plays in rep along with his latest play Surprises at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday, 3 November.
Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage, a “riotous comedy of frayed nerves and bloated egos”, continues at the Royal, Northampton until Saturday, 10 November.
William Inge’s drama The Dark at the Top of the Stairs which “hasn’t been seen in England for over a generation” continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre until Saturday, 10 November.