Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s play The Wipers Times, which tells the true and extraordinary story of the satirical newspaper created in the mud and mayhem of the Somme, tours to Leicester’s Curve theatre from Monday until Saturday.
“The UK’s number one rock ‘n’ roll variety production” That’ll be the Day is back on the road with a new show and visits Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday.
Nottingham New Theatre, “the only entirely student-run theatre in the country”, opens a new season at the city’s Lakeside Arts with a double bill, Working Class Hero, “a story of understanding and discovery, and of growing up with the belief that we all deserve to be treated fairly”, and The Devil You Know, “a spine-chilling thriller bringing to light the demons lurking in the shadows of the Internet”, in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts on Tuesday and Wednesday.
It would be a crime to miss Mischief Theatre’s The Comedy About a Bank Robbery in the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Lucy O’Byrne and Glenn Carter head the cast of Bill Kenwright’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita which packs its suitcase for the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Simon Harvey directs his “joyful and often surreal” adaptation of US novelist Jim Dodge’s international best-seller Fup, a modern fable about family, love, loss and an overweight, whiskey-swilling duck, presented at Nottingham Playhouse by Kneehigh and o-region from Tuesday until Saturday, while in the Neville Studio, audiences can get comfortable with a new play about family, trauma and a sofa that has seen everything, Tom Powell’s I Dare You, from Thursday until Saturday.
A “sparkling satire on the state of populism in our politics”, New Nigerians, the new comedy from Oladipo Agboluaje, can be seen in The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday, while on the main stage Charlie Lawson plays John Rebus in the world première of Rebus: Long Shadows by Ian Rankin and Rona Munro which continues until Saturday 6 October (hear from Charles Lawson, John Stahl and Ian Rankin in the BTG podcast).
Birmingham Royal Ballet performs “one of the most colourful ballets ever created”, Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter), at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday.
Birmingham Stage Company presents David Walliams’s tale of frights, fights and friendship, Awful Auntie, at Wolverhampton Grand from Wednesday until Sunday.
Cornwall-based Owdyado Theatre takes its new show Twisted Tales, a “darkly comic evening of three short plays”, to Bonington Theatre, Arnold, Nottinghamshire on Wednesday, Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, Staffordshire on Thursday, Broadbent Theatre, Wickenby, Lincolnshire on Friday, Kegworth Village Hall, Leicestershire on Saturday and the Parish Hall, Leicester Forest East on Sunday.
Craig Cash and Phil Mealey’s sitcom Early Doors is transferring from television to the stage and opens up at the Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham on Thursday.
Derby’s annual outdoor entertainment festival Derby Festé will include 22 UK and international companies and celebrates 250 years of circus at various locations from Thursday until Saturday.
A new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s bloodthirsty tale Dracula, featuring Cheryl Campbell as Lady Renfield and Philip Bretherton as Van Helsing, has its première at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Friday until Saturday 6 October.
The Flop, a Hijinx production in association with Spymonkey, promises “an anarchic, slightly rude, hilarious slice of stupidity with live music and unfeasibly large wigs” in the Studio at Derby Theatre on 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, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
The musical Kinky Boots, which has just started a new UK tour, continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday 6 October.
A new musical by Geoff Thompson featuring hit songs by the band The Enemy, We'll Live and Die in These Towns should rock the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Saturday until Saturday 20 October.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, 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 continues until Saturday 20 October.