A “love letter to schools of the ‘90s, asking big questions about a country in special measures”, Education Education Education by the Wardrobe Ensemble visits the Theatre at mac Birmingham on Tuesday.
New Youth Theatre at Mansfield Palace Theatre tells how Eliza Doolittle is transformed into My Fair Lady on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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 Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Tuesday, Playhouse Cinema, Leominster on Wednesday and Pentabus Arts, Ludlow on Thursday.
Stafford Gatehouse Youth Theatre goes on a Far Eastern adventure with Disney’s Mulan Jr in the theatre’s MET Studio from Tuesday until Friday.
Mischief Theatre’s The Play That Goes Wrong returns to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry for another calamitous week from Tuesday until Saturday.
Phil Daniels takes the lead in David Edgar’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Madalena Alberto is Eva Perón in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Party Somewhere Else, a “Nottingham-based collective of maverick creatives who happen to be women”, stages its first The Party Somewhere Else Festival at Nottingham Playhouse from Tuesday until Saturday.
Inspired by Agatha Christie, The 39 Steps and film noir, New Old Friends’ Crimes Under the Sun tours to The Roses, Tewksbury, Gloucestershire on Wednesday.
The Bristol Old Vic and Shakespeare’s Globe co-production of The Little Matchgirl and Other Happier Tales, written by Joel Horwood from the Hans Christian Andersen originals and directed by Emma Rice, stops off at Malvern Theatres from Wednesday until Saturday.
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 the Freemans’ original dancing club space, now a large function room above La Brasserie restaurant on Lower Mill Street, Kidderminster, on Thursday.
The Royal Shakespeare Company takes a stab at Julius Caesar in its First Encounters with Shakespeare series, “the perfect introduction to Shakespeare for 7- to 13-year-olds”, in the Other Place, Stratford from Thursday until Saturday.
Pasha Kovalev from Strictly Come Dancing and his dance partner Anya Garnis take their new show The Magic of Hollywood to The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Thursday and the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on Friday and Saturday.
Puppet artists and companies from across the UK and abroad will take part in Nottingham Puppet Festival at various venues across the city from Thursday until Sunday.
Honey, a new play by Tiffany Hosking weaving together “an intimate story about the lives of a young man, his mother, her tattoo artist sister and those who want to love them” which “explores a patchwork of life in the Welsh mountains where bees, bomb disposal and autism are all wrapped up in a joyous folk music soundtrack”, should taste sweet in the Studio at the Albany Theatre, Coventry on Friday.
Amputee poet and performer Jackie Hagan interviewed more than 80 people from the margins of society—with a particular emphasis on class, mental illness and disabilities—to explore the impact of benefit cuts for This is Not a Safe Space as part of a festival called DeStress Fest at the Attenborough Centre, Leicester on Friday and Saturday.
“The UK’s premier rock and roll production” That’ll Be The Day returns to Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
Set “in a seaside hotel of childhood summers”, Jane Upton’s autobiographical play Finding Nana ends its current tour in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Matthew Spangler’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, a “haunting tale of friendship which spans cultures and continents”, continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Sean McKenzie and Jo Mousley continue to perform Jim Cartwright’s comic two-hander Two at Derby Theatre until Saturday.
Elizabeth Robins’s rarely performed play Votes for Women continues at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre until Saturday.
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.
Matilda the Musical’s new tour continues at Curve, Leicester until Saturday.
Tweedy the Clown, who features in the annual Cheltenham Everyman Theatre panto, stages a new show for all the family, Tweedy’s Slapstick Symphony, at the Everyman on Sunday.
Swansea City Opera performs Rossini’s most famous comic opera The Barber of Seville at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Sunday.
Shrek the Musical continues at Northampton’s Derngate until Sunday.
The National Theatre production of War Horse, Nick Stafford’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, continues at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham until Saturday 7 April.
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 while in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack head the cast of Macbeth which runs until Tuesday 18 September (press night Tuesday 20 March).