A cast of 24 sails into Derngate, Northampton in Titanic the Musical from Monday until Saturday.
Madeleine Shaw and Lesley Garrett romp through the life of Newport suffragette Margaret Haig Thomas in Welsh National Opera’s Rhondda Rips It Up! in the Forum Theatre, Malvern on Tuesday while Rachel Wagstaff’s adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong, which marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, flies into the Festival Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Open Road Productions stages a new musical Grace—The Lighthouse Girl with songs and music by Phil Baggaley and a script by William Varnam in the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Wednesday until Saturday.
Nottingham-based Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama, otherwise known as MADD College, presents its annual show, The Greatest Gift is You—MADD College Annual Showcase 2018 at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday and Saturday.
Two showcases created by The Core at Corby Cube’s Get Involved groups, Incredible Sparks, highlighting the talent of The Core’s youngest youth theatre group Sparks which will be performed by children aged from five to eleven, and Incredible Actions, developed by young people aged from 12 to 18, will be staged at The Core on 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 which continues until Saturday.
A “play for the 2018 World Cup year, for football fans, non-football fans, children and families”, Evan Placey’s Keepy Uppy, a Tutti Frutti production, plays an away game at mac Birmingham on Sunday.
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; and in the Swan Theatre, John Webster’s blood-soaked revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi continues until Friday 3 August and Sam Kenyon’s new musical Miss Littlewood, which charts the emotional highs and lows of Joan Littlewood’s journey from the East End to the West End, continues until Saturday 4 August (press night Tuesday 3 July).