Wendi Peters appears in Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds’ musical Salad Days at Malvern Theatres from Tuesday until Saturday.
London Classic Theatre stages Charlotte Keatley’s My Mother Said I Never Should, a “poignant, bittersweet story about love, jealousy and the price of freedom”, at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Tuesday until Saturday.
Belinda Lang and Jonathan Coy feature in Tom Kempinski’s Duet for One at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.
New Adventures is at Curve, Leicester with a new production of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake from Tuesday until Saturday.
Searchlight Theatre Company delivers Nigel Forde’s adaptation of C S Lewis’s book The Screwtape Letters at the Albany Theatre, Coventry on Wednesday.
Birmingham Royal Ballet stages a mixed bill called Fire and Fury, featuring David Bintley’s The King Dances and the world première of Juanjo Arqués’s Ignite, at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday.
New Perspectives presents a “powerful allegory of brotherhood, vengeance and fate”, Gbolahan Obisesan’s adaptation of Chigozie Obioma’s Man Booker-nominated novel The Fishermen, at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Thursday and Friday.
Vamos Theatre, “the UK’s leading full mask company”, approaches the subject of dementia “with humour and humanity” in Finding Joy in the theatre at mac Birmingham on Thursday and Friday.
Northern Ballet swashbuckles its way into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham with David Nixon’s The Three Musketeers from Thursday until Saturday.
Eddie Kadi, Clinton Elvis and Latisha Antoine are among the cast of the Afrobeats musical Oliva Tweest which tours to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.
Birmingham REP and Told by an Idiot dissect a drugs debate in All You Need is LSD, a new comedy by Leo Butler who accepted an invitation from former government drugs tsar Professor David Nutt to be a guinea pig in the world’s first LSD trials since the 1960s, in The Door at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday 13 October.
Le Navet Bete gets its teeth into Dracula: The Bloody Truth, a “fast-paced, smash-hit, hilarious, family-friendly, comedy show getting to the bottom of the true story behind the famous Count”, in the Royal, Northampton on Friday.
A “sparkling satire on the state of populism in our politics”, New Nigerians, a new comedy from Oladipo Agboluaje, can be seen in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday and Saturday while on the main stage Denise Black plays Lil in a revival of Diane Samuels’s Kindertransport, which examines the story behind thousands of Jewish child refugees who were sent by their parents to England to escape Nazi persecution before the outbreak of World War II, from Friday until Saturday 20 October.
Author Riaz Khan joins the cast of Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual which continues at Curve, Leicester until Saturday.
Charlie Lawson plays John Rebus in the world première of Rebus: Long Shadows by Ian Rankin and Rona Munro, which continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
A new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s bloodthirsty tale Dracula, featuring Cheryl Campbell as Lady Renfield and Philip Bretherton as Van Helsing, continues at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham until Saturday.
The musical Kinky Boots, which has just started a new UK tour, continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday.
Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party, Derby Theatre’s big autumn production, and Abi, a contemporary, one-woman play written by Atiha Sen Gupta in response to Abigail’s Party, both continue until Saturday 20 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.