Lichfield Garrick hosts An Evening With Pam Ayres on Monday.
The Demon Barbers take their new show The Lock In, which involves a group of street dancers arriving at an apparently deserted pub only to have a dance-floor stand-off with regulars, to Artrix, Bromsgrove on Monday and Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.
Lee Hall’s translation of Brecht’s Mother Courage and her Children, a Blackeyed Theatre in association with South Hill Park presentation, visits Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham on Tuesday.
Coventry-born Barry Walker and show group Smackee showcase classic hits in Phantom and the Musicals at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Tuesday.
Set in New York in the year 2030 when “the undead are livelier than ever”, musical rock show Vampires Rock blasts into the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham on Tuesday.
Batsheva Ensemble, the youth branch of Israel’s contemporary dance group Batsheva Dance Company, makes its first appearance at Birmingham Hippodrome performing Deca Dance by Batsheva’s artistic director Ohad Naharin on Tuesday and Wednesday before travelling to Curve, Leicester on Friday.
British East Asian theatre company, Yellow Earth takes its bite-sized theatre production Dim Sum Nights to the Ming Moon, Hurst Street, Birmingham from Tuesday until Thursday.
ZooNation’s Some Like it Hip Hop which is on its first UK tour stops off at Leicester’s Curve on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall on Friday.
Kneehigh visits Northampton Royal with Emma Rice’s adaptation of Steptoe and Son from Tuesday until Saturday.
Hotbuckle Productions puts its own interpretation on Les Miserables at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre Studio on Wednesday.
Tacit Theatre offers a “fresh and immersive re-telling of seven of the classic stories” in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday.
Jerome K Jerome’s classic tale of boating misadventure Three Men in a Boat, an Original Theatre Company production, sails into Derby Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday.
Nottingham’s Theatre Royal goes back in time to stage stories of the Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians in Horrible Histories from Wednesday until Sunday.
Writers Cindy Claes and Angela McNab have taken well-known classics by Shakespeare and Molière and adapted them to reflect aspects of Jamaican history and culture in New Plays for Jamaica 50 at The Drum, Birmingham on Thursday.
Borderline, a “darkly comic story” about a man’s obsession with The Stone Roses, the Ecstasy culture of the 1990s and his struggle with mental illness, plays in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Thursday and Friday.
Moscow Ballet—La Classique returns to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry with Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker from Thursday until Saturday.
English Touring Opera visits Buxton Opera House with Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten on Friday and Viktor Ullman’s The Emperor of Atlantis on Saturday.
East Midlands touring company New Perspectives is on the road with Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at Foxt Village Hall, Staffordshire on Friday; Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall, Holloway, Derbyshire on Saturday; and Stretton-on-Fosse Village Hall, Warwickshire, on Sunday.
Rumpus Theatre Company stages a “haunting” new play by John Goodrum based on Wilkie Collins’ The Ghost’s Touch at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Saturday.
A “poignant and absorbing new play that follows the stories of two British soldiers almost 100 years apart: one from the Great War of 1914-18 and the second in present-day Afghanistan”, Paper Tom is a Handheld Arts presentation in the Studio at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre on Saturday.
Leicester’s Curve stages Diwali Hangama, the culmination of four days of activity celebrating Diwali, on Saturday.
Ballet Theatre UK celebrates Charles Dickens 200th birthday with A Christmas Carol at Mansfield Palace Theatre next Sunday at 3pm.
It’s anchors aweigh for the new show from Sandra Hunt and Rachel Laurence, Mapp and Lucia Ahoy!, adapted from the novels of E F Benson, at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre Studio next Sunday.
The Boy with Tape on His Face, which combines “mime with noise, stand-up comedy with no talking and drama with no acting”, is at Lichfield Garrick next Sunday.
The House of Burlesque girls find themselves Shipwrecked at Derby Theatre next Sunday.
John Steinbeck’s powerful tale of two outsiders in search of the American Dream, Of Mice and Men, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton’s comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane continues at Curve, Leicester until Saturday, 24 November.
The Merry Wives of Windsor featuring Desmond Barrit as Falstaff and Anita Dobson, making her RSC debut as Mistress Quickly, continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford until Saturday, 12 January while in the Swan The Orphan of Zhao continues until Thursday, 28 March.