The Old Vic production of Yasmina Reza’s comedy Art, translated by Christopher Hampton and featuring Nigel Havers, Denis Lawson and Stephen Tompkinson, tours to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
Based on Helen Tse’s family memoir, Mountains – The Dreams of Lily Kwok, which tells the story of three generations of women behind Manchester restaurant Sweet Mandarin, is on the menu at Key Theatre, Peterborough on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Split Second Productions’ two-man re-imagining of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest visits Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire from Tuesday until Friday.
Kneehigh performs its latest production based on Marc Chagall’s paintings of himself and his wife Bella, The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Two theatres will present versions of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, with Leeds-based Northern Ballet taking The Little Mermaid to Leicester’s Curve from Tuesday until Saturday while Metta Theatre transforms the story into Little Mermaid – The Circus Sensation at Malvern Theatres, also from Tuesday until Saturday.
Joe Pasquale is Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em at Northampton’s Derngate from Monday until Saturday while on the Royal stage The National Theatre Connections festival, “a celebration of young people, theatre-making and the importance of access to the arts”, takes place from Tuesday until Sunday.
Tim Firth’s new musical The Band which features the music of Take That should shine at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday 12 May.
“Inspired by Agatha Christie, The 39 Steps and film noir”, New Old Friends’ Crimes Under the Sun tours to Lincoln Drill Hall on Wednesday.
Victoria Jones is Cilla Black in the musical stage show Cilla and the Shades of the ‘60s which visits Mansfield Palace Theatre on Wednesday.
A cast of five including Nichola McAuliffe as Miss Havisham performs a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, a Tilted Wig Productions and Malvern Theatres presentation, at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.
Shrek the Musical stomps into Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Wednesday until Sunday 13 May.
Strauss’s “most intense and shocking opera” Salome gets the Opera North treatment at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Thursday.
Drama and performing arts students from De Montfort University stage Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in the Studio at Curve, Leicester from Thursday until Saturday.
The culmination of a new creative challenge to Nottingham’s young theatre makers, with groups creating an original, 15-minute performance using the same toolbox kit as their inspirational starting point, Toolbox Festival is nailed down in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham from Thursday until Saturday.
“Playing with the concept of balance and imbalance”, BalletBoyz takes a programme of five works, Fourteen Days, to Nottingham Playhouse on Friday.
Third year theatre arts students from the University of Derby mark 20 years since Matthew Shepard was murdered in a homophobic attack in Wyoming with a performance of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
Mark Farrelly writes and performs Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope, “a glorious, truthful and uplifting celebration of a genuinely unique human being” in the MET Studio at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Saturday.
The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster and New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme production of Willy Russell’s Educating Rita, featuring Andrew Pollard and Lauryn Redding, continues at the New Vic until Saturday.
A play for “football fans, non-football fans, children and families”, Evan Placey’s Keepy Uppy is a tutti frutti productions’ presentation in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Sunday.
Let’s Dance International Frontiers Festival, which presents contemporary dance and ballet by local and international performers, continues in various Leicester venues until Saturday 12 May.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack head the cast of Macbeth which continues until Tuesday 18 September, and Romeo and Juliet continues until Saturday 21 September (press night Tuesday 1 May); in the Swan Theatre, Mary Pix's comedy of manners The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich (Or the Beau Defeated) continues until Thursday 14 June and John Webster’s blood-soaked revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi continues until Friday 3 August.