Set on the home front during the Second World War, Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream gets a new interpretation from Mappa Mundi, the Torch Theatre and Theatr Mwldan at Buxton Opera House on Monday and Tuesday.
Clare Buckfield, Vicky Entwistle and Hayley Tamaddon appear in “the ultimate girls’ night out” The Vagina Monologues at Derngate, Northampton on Monday and Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.
David Robb, who played Dr Clarkson in the ITV series Downton Abbey, and James Roache, making his stage debut, feature in Hugh Janes’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s The Haunting at Derby Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Wolverhampton Grand discovers that Grease is the word from Monday until Saturday.
Satinder Chohan’s play Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi, a “gripping new drama about sport, nationhood and belonging, with a haunting love story at its heart”, fights its way into mac, Birmingham on Tuesday.
A “new hard-hitting contemporary dance work, which takes a look at modern morality, physicality and the presence of spirituality in our lives”, There Is Hope is a Rosie Kay Dance Company presentation at Wolverhampton’s Arena Theatre on Tuesday.
Dave Willetts and Marti Webb revive 42nd Street at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Tuesday until Saturday.
Theatre Royal Brighton Productions tours Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange, featuring Robert Bathurst as Robert, to Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Madcap theatre company Oddsocks has the Bridge House Theatre, Warwick in its sights with The Adventures of Robin Hood from Wednesday until Saturday.
Playbox Theatre’s Shakespeare Young Company stages The Winter’s Tale—The Beautiful and the Damned at The Dream Factory, Warwick from Thursday until Sunday.
New London Opera Players presents Beethoven’s Fidelio at Buxton Opera House on Friday.
Taste Productions returns to Buxton with its re-telling of a Charles Dickens’s novel, “bringing to life the pathos and tragedy of the Victorian workhouse and the life of the countless unknown urchins who struggled to stay alive in the filth of the world’s greatest city—all performed with a Brechtian/physical theatre and multi-role twist” in Oliver—With a Twist! in the Pauper’s Pit Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
Youngsters aged 11 to 13 who are members of the Kaleidoscope Intermediate Theatre Company stage their debut production in Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre, Hattie Naylor’s The Odyssey, on Friday and Saturday.
“The ultimate ‘60s Christmas party”, Eric in Wonderland, with David Graham “murdering yet another literary classic”, trips into the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Friday until Saturday, 15 December.
The Christmas show of the rock ‘n’ roll musical extravaganza That’ll Be the Day drums up a party atmosphere at Northampton’s Derngate on Saturday.
East Midlands-based New Perspectives is on the road with Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at Gayton Parish Church, Gayton, South Northants, on 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.
Created to celebrate Birmingham Royal Ballet's 20th anniversary in 2010, David Bintley's Cinderella continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday, 9 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 première of Adrian Mitchell’s adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov continues until Saturday, 30 March.