Apollo Theatre Company in association with Spike Milligan Productions stages The Goon Show at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on Monday.
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 Malvern Theatres from Monday until Saturday.
Bill Kenwright’s Classic Thriller Theatre Company visits Derby Theatre with Antony Lampard’s adaptation of Edgar Wallace’s The Case of the Frightened Lady, featuring John Partridge, Deborah Grant, Robert Duncan, Philip Lowrie, Matt Lacey, Scarlett Archer and Matt Barber, from Monday until Saturday.
Noctium Theatre takes its new play Hymns for Robots, centred on the “mother of electronic music”, Coventry-born Delia Derbyshire, who is best remembered for her work on the original Doctor Who theme tune, to the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Friday while Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds’s musical Salad Days is on the menu on the main stage from Wednesday until Saturday.
Russian State Opera returns to the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham with Bizet’s Carmen on Thursday and La Traviata by Verdi on Friday.
Mark Farrelly performs a new, one-man show The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton, which portrays the life of the man who wrote the play Gaslight, in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick on Friday.
Maison Foo uses its “trademark style of humour, clowning and physical theatre mixed with exciting new experiments in miniature puppetry and live camera” in A Thing Mislaid, which “celebrates and questions the idea of what it means to leave your birthplace in search of a place to call home once more” at Deda Derby on Friday and Saturday.
Marking his final performance as a dancer in a full-length piece, Akram Khan presents his new solo work Xenos, which looks at the experience of colonial soldiers in World War I, at Curve, Leicester on Friday and Saturday.
A “powerful and humorous look at an education system buckling under government cuts and targets”, Burning Books can be seen in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Anna Jordan’s new play Pop Music, a “euphoric, nostalgic, pop-tastic theatre party for anyone who’s ever made a fool of themselves on the dance floor”, continues in The Door at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
The world première of Bryony Lavery’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday.
Sweet Charity, the first musical Nottingham Playhouse has staged since 2006, continues until Saturday.
Shrek the Musical continues to offer “an irresistible mix of adventure, laughter and romance” in the theatre Royal, Nottingham until Sunday.
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, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 29 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; in the Swan Theatre, Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine continues until Saturday 1 December and Molière’s classic Tartuffe is brought up to date in a new version by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto which continues until Saturday 23 February 2019; and in The Other Place, David Edgar’s Maydays runs from Thursday 20 September until Saturday 20 October.