Selina Thompson performs her own piece salt. which examines “where colonial history exists in the everyday, the politics of grief and what happens inside Selina's head” every time someone asks her where she is from in the Studio at Birmingham REP on Monday and Tuesday; in The Door, Janice Connolly and Michael Crouch present Stuff, a “quirky and comedic new production that respectfully shines a light on the subject of hoarding”, from Wednesday until Saturday; and on the main stage Hugh Dennis, John Marquez and Lesley Garrett play a cast of thousands in Patrick Barlow’s The Messiah from Thursday until Saturday 27 October.
Curmudgeonly crime-fighter John Rebus takes to the stage for the first time in Ian Rankin and Rona Munro’s play Rebus: Long Shadows which tours to Malvern Theatres from Monday until Saturday.
John Partridge, Deborah Grant, Robert Duncan, Phillip Lowrie, Matt Lacey, Scarlett Archer and Matt Barber are among the cast of The Case of the Frightened Lady by Edgar Wallace, a Classic Thriller Company presentation at Lichfield Garrick from Monday until Saturday.
A “comic and candid look” at attention deficit hyperactive disorder developed in consultation with medical professionals and mental health support groups, Art with Heart’s Declaration can be seen at mac, Birmingham on Tuesday.
“The UK’s favourite rock and roll variety production” That’ll Be The Day, pops into Buxton Opera House on Tuesday.
Richard Alston Dance Company presents a mixed bill of Alston’s Brahms Hungarian, Proverb and Mid Century Modern along with Martin Lawrance’s Detour at Derngate, Northampton on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Rifco Theatre Company heads to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry with Dishoom!, a new comedy drama by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, from Tuesday until Saturday.
Victor Oshin will take the lead role in English Touring Theatre’s revival of Richard Twyman’s production of Othello, a co-production with Oxford Playhouse and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Kinky Boots, with book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, tours to Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday 27 October.
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 Culmington Village Hall on Wednesday and Quatt Village 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 Coach House, Malvern from Wednesday until Saturday.
First produced at Shakespeare’s Globe, Ché Walker’s The Frontline, 12 stories told through a series of snapshots, will be performed by the graduates of Leicester Curve’s local actor training programme from Wednesday until Saturday.
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 the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Wednesday, Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-on-Trent on Thursday, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Saturday and Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester on Sunday.
Created by Dante Or Die and written by Chris Goode, User Not Found is a “pioneering and intimate new play performed through smart phones and headphones as you become a fly on the wall of one man faced with keeping or deleting” in the Old Library Theatre, Mansfield on Friday.
Deafinitely Theatre brings its “celebrated bilingual approach to Sarah Kane’s lyrical and haunting play about mental health”, 4.48 Psychosis, in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
Inspired by the role of electricity in the human body, Motionhouse’s multimedia show Charge dances into the theatre at mac Birmingham on Friday and Saturday.
English Youth Ballet performs a double bill of Aurora’s Wedding and Ballet Études at Buxton Opera House on Friday and Saturday.
Northumberland Theatre Company’s Heartspur, a “medieval / '60s mash-up with a touch of Shakespeare, telling the story of Northumbrian hero Harry Hotspur, set in gangland Newcastle in 1963 and using the best of Shakespeare's words alongside songs from the girl bands of the '60s”, tours to Alford Corn Exchange, Lincolnshire on Friday, Spring Bank Arts Centre, New Mills, Derbyshire on Saturday and Wymeswold Memorial Hall, Leicestershire on Sunday.
BOLDtext Playwrights and the West Midlands Police Museum present Behind Bars: Ghosts of the Lock-Up, which takes a theatrical journey through the cells, corridors and stairways of a Grade II listed prison, at The Lock-Up, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham from Friday until Sunday.
Improvised comedy troupe Austentatious conjure up a new “lost” Jane Austen novel based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience at the Y Theatre, Leicester on Saturday.
True-life mountaineering drama Touching the Void, based on Joe Simpson’s best-selling memoir, continues on the Northampton Royal stage until 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 and continues at Nottingham Playhouse 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.
A new musical by Geoff Thompson featuring hit songs by the band The Enemy, We'll Live and Die in These Towns continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday.
Blue Orange Arts continues to get its teeth into Bram Stoker’s Dracula at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday.
The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough continues to present a double Alan Ayckbourn bill of Joking Apart and Better Off Dead at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 27 October.
Nick Stafford’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse continues to gallop onto the main stage at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 3 November.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Troilus and Cressida runs until Saturday 17 November (press night Thursday 18 October); in the Swan Theatre The Comedy of Errors, the RSC’s new First Encounters with Shakespeare offering for younger audiences, runs from Friday 19 until Saturday 27 October, 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, playwright David Edgar makes his professional acting debut in Trying it On from Thursday until Saturday while his play Maydays continues until Saturday 20 October.