Ex-service personnel take the stage in Bravo 22 Company’s Unspoken, which brings to light the lives interrupted and changed by war, in the Patrick Studio at Birmingham Hippodrome on Monday and Tuesday while War Horse gallops onto the main stage from Wednesday until Saturday 3 November.
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 Birmingham REP from Monday until Saturday while in The Door the REP and Told by an Idiot dissect a drugs debate in All You Need is LSD, a new comedy by Leo Butler which continues until Saturday.
A new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s bloodthirsty tale Dracula, a Touring Consortium Theatre Company production in association with Everyman Theatre Cheltenham, shocks the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Stephen Daldry’s production of J B Priestley’s classic thriller An Inspector Calls returns to the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.
A musical adaptation of Jeff Pope’s ITV mini-series, Cilla the Musical steps inside Leicester’s Curve from Tuesday until Saturday.
A double Alan Ayckbourn bill moves from the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough to the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme, with Joking Apart taking to the theatre-in-the-round from Tuesday and Better Off Dead from Thursday, both until Saturday 27 October.
Rumpus Theatre Company should get a good reception when The Devil’s Bride, a “fiendish” new play by Richard Layton based on a story by Victorian Gothic horror author Sheridan Le Fanu, books into the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Wednesday.
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Private Peaceful, Simon Reade’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s book, is a Scamp Theatre presentation at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Wednesday and Thursday.
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 mac Birmingham on Wednesday and Lincoln Drill Hall on Thursday.
Swedish playwright August Strindberg is holed up in a Paris hotel in 1896 after abandoning theatre and trying his hand at alchemy when he receives visits from his ex-wives in The Blinding Light by Howard Brenton, presented by Here to There Productions, at the Courtyard Theatre, Hereford from Wednesday until Saturday.
New Perspectives and Pentabus collaborate to present Deirdre Kinahan’s Crossings, inspired by real-life occurrences of cross-dressing in the military, at Shropshire venues Pentabus Theatre, Bromfield on Wednesday and Thursday, All Stretton Village Hall on Friday and Ludlow Assembly Rooms on Saturday.
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood make their first forays into the “exciting world of Regency society” in Laura Turner’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, staged by Chapterhouse Theatre Company at Buxton Opera House on Thursday.
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” at the Old Library Theatre, Mansfield on Thursday.
Theatre Absolute's programme of new theatre, Are We Where We Are, is back with two new pieces, The Things We Tell Ourselves, written and performed by Cristina Catalina, and Stephanie Ridings’s Don’t Cry for Me, at the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry on Thursday.
Choreographer Tom Dale’s “mesmeric” dance installation I Infinite, a solo dance piece performed in a white cube space with a digitally animated environment, can be seen at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Thursday and Friday.
Blue Orange Arts gets its teeth into Bram Stoker’s Dracula at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday 20 October.
A new solo performance by David Edgar about how our young selves might—and our old selves do—relate to each other, Trying it On tours to mac Birmingham on Friday.
Ballet Theatre UK dances into the Albany Theatre, Coventry, with Beauty and the Beast on Friday.
Metro Boulot Dodo’s virtual reality experience telling the “compelling” stories of the forgotten Caribbean and South Asian soldiers of World War I, Empire Soldiers “blends performance and technology” at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Friday and Saturday.
All-male comedy ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo dances into Buxton Opera House on Saturday.
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, which continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 20 October.
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.