Set on the home front during World War II, a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream—a Mappa Mundi / Torch Theatre / Theatr Mwldan co-production—visits Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts Centre on Monday and Tuesday.
Derby-born actress Gwen Taylor returns to her home city with Don Warrington in Alfred Urhy’s Driving Miss Daisy at Derby Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Dolly Parton’s new production 9 to 5 The Musical, a “hilarious story of friendship, gossip and revenge”, tours to Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Lesley Joseph, Sue Holderness, Ruth Madoc, Kathryn Rooney, Camilla Dallerup, Helen Fraser, Deena Payne and Kacey Ainsworth are Calendar Girls at Buxton Opera House from Monday until Saturday.
Vincent Dance Theatre’s UK tour of Motherland stops off at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Vienna Festival Ballet performs two classics at Lichfield Garrick, Coppelia by Delibes on Tuesday and Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker on Wednesday and Thursday.
Opera North takes up a residency at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal with three new productions, Gounod’s Faust on Tuesday and Friday, Don Giovanni by Mozart on Wednesday and Saturday, and Janacek’s The Makropulos Case on Thursday.
Direct from the West End, An Evening of Burlesque sizzles into Leicester’s De Montfort Hall on Wednesday and the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Friday.
East Midlands touring company New Perspectives is on the road with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at Blakesley and Woodend Village Hall, Blakesley, Towcester, South Northants on Wednesday; Ashley Village Hall, Northamptonshire on Thursday; and Little Wenlock Village Hall, Shropshire on Friday.
Created to celebrate Birmingham Royal Ballet's 20th anniversary in 2010, David Bintley's Cinderella returns to Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Sunday, 9 December.
London Classic Theatre stresses The Importance of Being Earnest at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Thursday.
Derby Theatre Studio stages Charlotte Keatley’s My Mother Said I Never Should from Thursday until Saturday.
Adapted by Simon Moore from Stephen King’s award-winning novel Misery which “enthrals the audience from the very beginning to its climactic and unexpected end” is a Blue Orange Productions presentation at Wolverhampton’s Arena Theatre on Friday.
Recreating original West End and Broadway musical hit songs, Beyond the Barricade is at Stoke’s Victoria Hall on Friday.
An evening celebrating the creativity of Corby’s young people, Corby Youth Arts Slam which fuses live digital arts, music, drama, musical theatre and dance takes to the stage at The Core at Corby Cube on Friday.
As part of its tenth anniversary, Sonia Sabri Dance Company is performing Akaar, “an evening of promise, wonder and passion, on Friday and Kaavish, “which presents Kathak dance in a modern, refreshing way by combining elements of Indian and British culture, music, words and movement” on Saturday, both at mac, Birmingham.
Kaleidoscope Youth Theatre Company stages its first production at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales on Friday and Saturday.
Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton’s comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane continues at Curve, Leicester until Saturday.
Ballet Theatre UK takes a journey to the dark and twisting streets of old Dickensian London in A Christmas Carol next Sunday.
Northampton’s Derngate hosts An Evening with Pam Ayres next Sunday.
A “tale of friendship set on an island of rubbish”, Knick Knack and Doo Dad—Reasons to be Cheerful continues at mac, Birmingham until Sunday, 2 December.
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday, 19 January.
Roald Dahl's first children's book and one of his most popular stories, James and the Giant Peach continues at Birmingham Old Rep until Saturday, 2 February.
The Merry Wives of Windsor featuring Desmond Barrit as Falstaff and Anita Dobson as Mistress Quickly continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford until Saturday, 12 January alongside the first major stage adaptation of Russell Hoban's book The Mouse and His Child (press night Thursday, 29 November) which also runs until 12 January; in the Swan The Orphan of Zhao continues until Thursday, 28 March while the world premiere of Adrian Mitchell’s adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov continues until Saturday, 30 March.