Rumpus Theatre Company takes John Goodrum’s adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s The Ghost’s Touch! to Key Theatre, Peterborough on Monday and Tuesday.
The National Theatre tour of Patrick Marber’s new version of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
Selladoor opens its new production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men at the Royal, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.
Created “in collaboration with some of the industry’s foremost dancers, composers and designers”, Triple Bill by Joss Arnott Dance features A Movement in 3, RUSH and solo V which can be seen in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Tuesday and in the theatre at mac Birmingham on Wednesday.
Coventry Belgrade Theatre’s spring season gets underway with Bill Kenwright’s tour of The Sound of Music, with The Voice finalist Lucy O’Byrne as Maria and Neil McDermott as Captain Von Trapp, from Tuesday until Saturday while in the B2 auditorium “the UK’s foremost black-led touring theatre company” Eclipse returns with a new play by rapper and beatboxer Testament, Black Men Walking, from Wednesday until Saturday.
Set in London during World War II, Matthew Bourne's Cinderella dances into Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.
The sixth production in the Are We Where We Are programme at the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry is CHOKE, written by Theatre Absolute’s artistic director Chris O’Connell which runs from Tuesday until Saturday 17 February.
The musical Jersey Boys, outlining the rise of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, is working its way back around the UK and walks like a man into the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Tuesday until Saturday 17 February.
Mamma Mia! by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus is the name of the game at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday 24 February.
Written, directed and produced by Graham Woolnough, Tea with the Old Queen, a “funny, witty and poignant play revealing the eccentricities of our monarchy”, has a royal appointment at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Wednesday.
Georgie Cunningham and Joy Carleton play Rebecca and Charlotte who fall in love when they are 5,000 miles apart in Ryan Leder’s Numbered Days, a Theatre in Black presentation at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Wednesday.
Set “in a seaside hotel of childhood summers”, Jane Upton’s autobiographical play Finding Nana takes to the Neville Studio stage at Nottingham Playhouse from Wednesday until Saturday.
Moscow City Ballet presents two ballets in classic Russian style with a full orchestra, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet on Wednesday and Thursday and The Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky on Friday and Saturday in the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham.
A “stirring, stomping, roaring celebration of grassroots resistance to those who plot to tear apart our welfare state, rip up our environmental protections and impose ever more draconian neoliberal misery on millions”, Rise, Like Lions! is a Banner Theatre presentation in the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Thursday.
Mark Bruce Company tours its “haunting, new dance / theatre re-imagining” of Shakespeare’s Macbeth to DanceXchange at Birmingham Hippodrome on Thursday and Friday.
Gecko Theatre’s presentation of Amit Lahav’s The Wedding, with an “extraordinary ensemble of international performers guiding audiences through a dystopian world in which we are all brides, wedded to society”, goes down the aisle at Derby Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
Nichola McAuliffe plays Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations at Malvern Theatres from Thursday until Saturday and again from 15 until 17 February.
A tragic love story of a docker, a waitress and their forbidden love for each other which features the music of Bon Jovi, We’ve Got Each Other by Paul O’Donnell takes a sideways look at the “pomp and circumstance” of modern jukebox musicals in Derby Theatre Studio on Friday.
Point of Echoes, choreographer Ben Wright’s tale of lighthouse keepers which is designed especially for village halls, tours to St Chad’s Village Hall, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire on Friday and Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, Staffordshire on Saturday.
Josette Bushell-Mingo channels Nina Simone’s musicianship and anger at racism into Nina, which touches on the 1960s civil rights movement and draws parallels with the movement today, in the Studio at Curve, Leicester on Friday and Saturday.
“The UK’s finest practitioners of theatrical Victoriana in a macabre vein” Don’t Go into the Cellar returns to the MET Studio at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre with an adaption of tales from “the master of the macabre” Edgar Allan Poe, Pandemonium of Poe, on Saturday.
An “ocean-filled production perfect for those excited about saving our planet, The Dead Sea, devised and performed by Louise White, comes to life at The Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-on-Trent on Saturday.
An “intimate” drama recounting the first meeting between two great Romantic poets and rakish lovers, Byron and Shelley, A Romantic Affair by Peter Roberts is a Lost Boys and Derby LIVE presentation at Kedleston Hall, Derby on Saturday and again on Wednesday 14 February.
The Kneehigh Theatre and Birmingham REP production of Brief Encounter, adapted and directed by Emma Rice, continues on the REP’s main stage until Saturday 17 February while in The Door, Penguins, a new show for children inspired by the true story of two male penguins at New York’s Central Park Zoo, continues until Saturday 10 February.
April De Angelis’s Playhouse Creatures, the first play in a season of work focused on empowerment to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 24 February.
In the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Adrian Edmondson makes his RSC debut as Malvolio and Kara Tointon plays Olivia in Twelfth Night which continues until 24 February; and in the Swan Theatre Mike Poulton’s adaptation of The Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris, Imperium Part I: Conspirator and Imperium Part II: Dictator, continue until Saturday 10 February.