Mischief Theatre has two productions in the Midlands, The Play That Goes Wrong at Curve, Leicester from Monday until Saturday while the company’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.
Lucy O’Byrne, Mike Sterling and Glenn Carter are among the cast of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita which tours to Malvern Theatres from Tuesday until Saturday.
Back in the UK for the first time in seven years, Flashdance the Musical featuring Strictly Come Dancing winner Joanne Clifton and A1 singer Ben Adams welds its way into the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday while on the B2 stage Strictly Arts revives its multi-disciplinary drama Freeman, inspired by the first man in America to plead insanity as his defence, from Wednesday until Saturday.
Headlong stages Penelope Skinner’s Meek, a “haunting vision of ruthless state control, tense friendships and one woman’s determination not to be broken”, in The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.
Jars of Clay Theatre Company presents “Macbeth with a twist”, Lady Macbeth and her Servants, at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Wednesday until Saturday.
A cast of 40 from Derby Youth Musical Theatre performs Legally Blonde: The Musical on the main stage at Derby Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday while in the Studio Karim Khan’s Beyond Shame, a “powerful new play confronting the reality of forced marriages and honour-based abuse still happening today in the UK”, has its premiere from Thursday until Saturday.
Featuring stories by Ola Animashawun, Marcia Layne, Alan Pollock, Nick Walker and Paven Virk, Meet Me in the Ruins will present audiences with a series of snapshots rooted in local history and following five characters all at a crossroads in their lives in the open air at Coventry Cathedral from Thursday until Saturday.
Maxine Peak’s Play Queens of the Coal Age, which recreates the attempts of a small group of women in 1993 to highlight the decimation of the UK's coal mining industry, digs in at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme, from Friday until Saturday 29 September.
Jenny Wren Productions performs a “playful” adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Emma, written by Martin Millar and Doon MacKichan, at the Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham on Saturday.
Jersey Boys, the musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, continues to work its way back to Wolverhampton Grand until Saturday.
The Royal Shakespeare Company production inspired by Roald Dahl’s book, Matilda the Musical continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.
Peppa Pig and friends hog the Derngate, Northampton stage with Peppa Pig’s Adventure on Saturday and Sunday.
Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company takes its re-potted version of the children’s story The Enormous Turnip to Lichfield Garrick on Sunday.
The world première of Bryony Lavery’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday 22 September.
Sweet Charity, the first musical Nottingham Playhouse has staged since 2006, continues until Saturday 22 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.