Jenny Éclair, Dillie Keane and Lizzie Roper are Grumpy Old Women to the Rescue at Derngate, Northampton on Monday.
“Shakespeare innovators” Oddsocks blasts into outer space with a new version of The Tempest, which casts Prospero as an ageing astronaut, in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Thursday while on the main stage Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Hull Truck Theatre and Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic hope to produce an intoxicating version of Compton Mackenzie’s Whisky Galore from Wednesday until Saturday.
Stafford Gatehouse Youth Theatre presents Stephen Sondheim’s musical Assassins in the MET Studio at the Gatehouse from Tuesday until Friday.
Frank Vosper’s 1936 stage adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Love From a Stranger should create a thrill at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Here to There Productions transports As You Like It to the late 1960s when it performs Shakespeare’s comedy in the open air at Ludlow Castle from Thursday until Monday 25 June.
As part of Lichfield Garrick’s commitment to support new work, Lichfield actress Katie Arnstein’s debut one-woman show about the day she stopped being a girl and became a woman, Bicycles and Fish, rides into the Studio on Friday and Saturday.
The regional première of Tanya Ronder’s drama Table continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
The Take That musical The Band by Tim Firth continues at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham until Saturday.
Tall Stories presents Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Snail and the Whale in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Saturday and Sunday.
Victoria Jones plays Cilla Black in Cilla and the Shades of the 60s at the Albany Theatre, Coventry on Sunday.
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 until Sunday.
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 which continues until Saturday 30 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, 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.