Set in Afghanistan in 2009, Vamos Theatre’s A Brave Face explores post-traumatic stress and its impact when it visits the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Monday and the Theatre at mac Birmingham on Wednesday.
A cast of deaf and hearing actors using British sign language and spoken English tackle John Godber's comedy Up 'n' Under, a fingersmiths co-production with the New Wolsey Theatre, in the Studio at Birmingham REP from Monday until Wednesday.
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 Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Monday, Thimblemill Library, Smethwick, West Midlands on Thursday, Newhampton Arts Centre, Wolverhampton on Friday and The Angel Centre, Worcester on Saturday.
Dance takes centre stage at Birmingham Hippodrome, with six performers using dance and acrobatics to delve deep into the human body in Motionhouse’s Charge on Tuesday while on Friday and Saturday Canada’s leading contemporary dance company Ballet British Columbia returns with Ballet BC.
A new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, a Children’s Touring Partnership and Northampton Royal and Derngate co-production, visits Malvern Theatres from Tuesday until Saturday.
Harry Gibson’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting Live returns to the Studio at Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Saturday.
The première of Paul Nolan’s “poignant and personal story based on the life and times of his relatives’ involvement at Passchendaele”, The Window opens in the Studio at the Albany Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Matthew Spangler’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, a “haunting tale of friendship which spans cultures and continents”, returns to Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday 24 March.
Opera North is at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham with Puccini’s Madama Butterfly on Tuesday and Thursday, Don Giovanni by Mozart on Wednesday and Friday and Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) on Saturday.
Returning to the stage after a ten-year absence, Francesca Beard’s one-woman show How To Survive A Post-Truth Apocalypse, an “epic adventure through a wonderland of lies, fictions and Wikipedia facts”, asks whether the truth can set us free in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Wednesday.
Featuring Andrew Ryan, Birmingham-born Michael Sherwin and Sarah Wynne Kordas, Anthony Horowitz’s psychological thriller Mindgame, presented by Angela Browne and Tabs Productions, visits the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.
Inspired by Agatha Christie, The 39 Steps and film noir, New Old Friends’ Crimes Under the Sun tours to The Theatre, Chipping Norton on Wednesday and Thursday and Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
Shrek the Musical stops off at Northampton’s Derngate from Wednesday until Sunday 25 March.
The National Theatre production of War Horse, Nick Stafford’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, gallops into the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham from Wednesday until Saturday 7 April.
Blackeyed Theatre educates the audience at Lichfield Garrick with John Godber’s Teechers on Thursday.
In a “powerful and provocative exploration of identity and beauty”, Marlene McKenzie explores an issue facing many women today, skin lightening, in Lite in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Thursday.
Tom Dale Company presents a “visceral, explosive and captivating double bill of works that bear witness to the phenomenal impact electronic music has on dance”, Step Sonic / Subterrania, in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Thursday.
Set “in a seaside hotel of childhood summers”, Jane Upton’s autobiographical play Finding Nana visits Geddington Village Hall, Northamptonshire on Friday.
A new show challenging what exactly makes a nation, Post by Xavier de Sousa can be seen in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.
Set on the beach at the end of time where people “grapple with universal destruction and deck-chairs”, The 4 Clowns of The Apocalypse, the first clown show by Absolute Theatre and Teatro Montemuro, tours to The Performance Hub, University of Wolverhampton, Walsall on Friday, Thimblemill Library, Smethwick on Saturday and the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham on Sunday.
Agatha Christie and Frank Vosper’s thriller Love From a Stranger continues on the Northampton Royal stage until Saturday.
As part of U.Dance 2018, Dance4 presents Xzibit, a collection of dance works choreographed by young people mentored by internationally recognised specialists, on Saturday and Episodes, a celebration of Nottinghamshire’s youth talent, on Sunday, both in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham.
Sean McKenzie and Jo Mousley continue to perform Jim Cartwright’s comic two-hander Two at Derby Theatre until Saturday 24 March.
Elizabeth Robins’s rarely performed play Votes for Women continues at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre until Saturday 24 March.
The “extraordinary” true story of a group of convicts and a young officer who rehearse and perform a play—Australia's first theatrical production—is told in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good, a Ramps on the Moon and Nottingham Playhouse co-production which continues at the Playhouse until Saturday 24 March (press night Tuesday 13 March).
Matilda the Musical’s new tour continues at Curve, Leicester until Saturday 24 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.