The “remarkable” story of Jayaben Desai, the inspirational leader of the 1976-78 Grunwick film-processing factory strike, named among the women who have had the biggest impact on women’s lives over the past 70 years, is told in Townsend Productions’ We Are The Lions, Mr Manager! in the theatre at mac Birmingham on Monday.
Set “in a seaside hotel of childhood summers”, Jane Upton’s autobiographical play Finding Nana visits Pattingham Village Hall, Pattingham, Wolverhampton on Monday, Manton Village Hall, Oakham, Rutland on Wednesday, Kings Bromley Village Hall, Staffordshire on Thursday, St Michael’s Village Hall, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire on Friday and Muskham Rural Community Centre, North Muskham, Newark, Nottinghamshire on Saturday.
Matilda the Musical starts a new tour at Curve, Leicester from Monday until Saturday 24 March while in the Studio Phoenix Dance Theatre presents a new production, Windrush: Movement of the People on Friday and Saturday.
Chanje Kunda combines art, science and philosophy to construct an alternative narrative from a feminist perspective, using spoken word, live art and dance fusion in Superposition in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Tuesday and the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday.
Based on the real-life story of two warring Allied meteorologists tasked with predicting the weather conditions for the D-Day landings, David Haig’s Pressure should turn up the tension at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Paul Nicholas, Sue Holderness, Jeff Rawle and Wendi Peters appear in Ronald Harwood’s Quartet at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday, while the story of a legendary singer-songwriter and activist comes to life in Nina – A Story About Me And Nina Simone, performed by Josette Bushell-Mingo in The Studio, also from Tuesday until Saturday.
Monty Python’s Spamalot, “lovingly ripped off from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, looks on the bright side of life at Malvern Theatres from Tuesday until Saturday.
New Adventures returns to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham with one of its most popular productions, Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella, from Tuesday until Saturday.
Fresh from a record-breaking ten-year run in London’s West End, the Michael Jackson concert show Thriller Live moonwalks into the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Combining “contemporary dance with an essence of Flamenco, Kathak and ACE Dance and Music’s own Afro-fusion style”, TEN can be seen in the theatre at mac Birmingham on Thursday.
Rumpus Theatre Company stages a “spine-chilling play by John Goodrum based on Charles Dickens’ classic ghost story” The Signalman at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln from Thursday until Saturday.
A new “knockout” production from Smoke and Oakum Theatre which follows a boxer and his team who never seem to have much luck, Cornermen punches its way into the MET Studio at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday.
Autin Dance Theatre presents A Positive Life, an “uplifting and engaging message on self-love and relationships”, in the studio at the Albany Theatre, Coventry on Friday.
A new play written by Caroline Jester and based on the true story of Kidderminster legends Frank and Wynn Freeman and their “selfless drive to get a town dancing”, The Dancing Club quicksteps into Malvern Cube, Malvern, Worcestershire on Friday.
Northampton Royal and Derngate’s Actors Company performs Splendour by Abi Morgan in the Underground auditorium on Friday and Saturday while on the Royal stage Agatha Christie and Frank Vosper’s thriller Love From a Stranger continues until Saturday 17 March.
In Derby Theatre Studio fingersmiths presents John Godber’s Up ‘n’ Under with a cast of Deaf and hearing actors using British sign language and spoken English on Friday and Saturday while on the main stage Sean McKenzie and Jo Mousley continue to perform Jim Cartwright’s Two until Saturday 24 March (press night Tuesday 6 March).
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, John Webster’s blood-soaked revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi continues in the Swan Theatre until Friday 3 August (press night Thursday 8 March).