Peppa Pig and friends will be jumping in muddy puddles in Peppa Pig’s Adventure at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s play which tells “the true and extraordinary story” of a satirical newspaper created in the mud of the Great War, The Wipers Times, rolls off the presses and into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Let It Be: A Celebration of the Music of the Beatles, an updated version of the show with a new second half which is set a decade after the group went their separate ways, tours to the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Jersey Boys, the musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, works its way back to Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday 8 September.
Here to There Productions stages Jessica Swale’s comedy Nell Gwynn at Hereford Courtyard Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday.
Third from the Right Productions presents Dennis T Giacino’s off-Broadway musical Disenchanted! at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Wednesday until Saturday.
Russian State Ballet and Opera House returns to Coventry’s Belgrade with a double bill of Bizet’s Carmen and Verdi’s La Traviata on Thursday and Friday.
Ian Kennedy Productions stages Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers in the open air at Over Barn, Highnam, Gloucestershire on Thursday, Beacon Park, Lichfield, Staffordshire on Friday and Rays Farm, Bridgnorth, Shropshire on Saturday.
The man with the golden pun, Uncle Eric, will leave audiences at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic shaken and stirred when David Graham Productions continues to stage the ‘60s musical Diamonds are for Eric until Saturday.
Inspired by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture book, Tall Stories’ The Snail and The Whale heads to mac Birmingham on Saturday and Sunday.
Mischief Theatre’s first UK tour of The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 8 September.
The Royal Shakespeare Company production inspired by Roald Dahl’s book, Matilda the Musical, continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 8 September.
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, Romeo and Juliet continues until Saturday 21 September and David Troughton plays Sir John Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor which continues until Saturday 22 September; and in the Swan Theatre, Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine continues until Saturday 1 December.