Marking the centenary of the end of World War I, Rachel Wagstaff’s adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s novel Birdsong flies into Derby Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Jenny Eclair, Dillie Keane and Lizzie Roper are Grumpy Old Women to the Rescue at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday.
Playwright David Edgar makes his professional stage debut in his play Trying it On, which looks at 1968, the year of “some of the most important and formative events in modern history”, at Birmingham REP on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Bill Kenwright’s Classic Thriller Theatre Company visits the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry with Antony Lampard’s adaptation of Edgar Wallace’s The Case of the Frightened Lady, featuring Gray O’Brien, Deborah Grant, Denis Lill, Philip Lowrie, Ben Nealon, April Pearson, Glenn Carter, Roy Marsden and Oliver Phelps, from Tuesday until Saturday.
Leicester’s Curve celebrates the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in Walk Like A Man from Tuesday until Saturday while the original cast of The Play That Goes Wrong takes to the stage in Mischief Movie Night from Thursday until Saturday.
The Take That musical The Band by Tim Firth should shine at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday 23 June.
A “specially commissioned score and circus elements combined with the finest classical dance” will be no fairy tale when Ballet Cymru presents Cinderella at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Wednesday.
As part of Birmingham International Dance Festival, contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers Candoco performs Yasmeen Godder’s Face In and Let’s Talk About Dis by Hetain Patel at mac Birmingham on Wednesday and Thursday.
The première of Love Lies Bleeding, presented by Everyman regulars Jenny Wren Productions and Stroud-based author Jamila Gavin, ends its current tour in the Studio at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Wednesday until Saturday.
“Shakespeare innovators” Oddsocks put their irreverent stamp on The Tempest, transporting the action from a desert island to a distant galaxy at Markeaton Park Craft Village, Derby from Thursday until Saturday.
Midlands-based collective Laura Ryder and Co’s physical theatre production about the plight of Britain’s bees, The Bee Project buzzes into the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.
James Fritz’s Lava “takes a timely look at relationships, young people and a world that makes little sense in a story set during a natural disaster” in a Nottingham Playhouse and Fifth Word presentation in the Neville Studio at the Playhouse from Thursday until Saturday 30 June.
London-based fringe company Proforca Theatre makes its debut at The Albany Theatre, Coventry with James Lewis’s new play Feel which “tells of a search for fulfilment, second-hand love and the hope of one day becoming something better than you are” in the Studio on Friday and Saturday.
A new solo production of “multi-splendous physical buffoonery by the international physical theatre company Kallo Collective and acclaimed production company Show Pony”, Only Bones v1.0 visits the Hexagon Theatre at mac Birmingham on Friday and Saturday.
Karl Collins is back in his home city to take the lead role in Shebeen, a play which centres on Nottingham’s Caribbean community in the late 1950s, which continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
Oily Kart’s new work for young people aged from 3 to 19, Kubla Khan, comes in three versions at Derby Theatre, for those who are deafblind with or without any cognitive impairment, for those on the autism spectrum and for those with profound and multiple learning disabilities, on Saturday and Sunday.
The regional première of Tanya Ronder’s drama Table continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 23 June.
Taking over Birmingham’s streets and squares, “championing the best of current choreography and putting local talent on an international stage”, Birmingham International Dance Festival 2018 continues at various venues until Sunday 24 June.
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; 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; and in The Other Place, Spring Mischief Festival #WeAreArrested by Can Dündar and Day of the Living by Darren Clark, Amy Draper and Juliet Gilkes Romero continues as a double bill until Saturday 23 June.