Malcolm Rennie takes the role of Harry McNish in Shackleton’s Carpenter, Gail Louw’s play about a forgotten Scottish hero who was instrumental in ensuring the survival of all the crew of an Antarctic expedition, at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Monday.
Retired Detective Inspector John Rebus (Charles Lawson) comes up against his old nemesis Big Ger Cafferty (John Stahl) in Ian Rankin and Rona Munro’s Rebus: Long Shadows at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard and adapted by Lee Hall, Shakespeare in Love tours to Malvern Theatres from Monday until Saturday.
Charting the music of Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5, Thriller Live visits the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham for the first time from Monday until Saturday.
An international collaboration between UK Bharatanatyam artist Seeta Patel and Australian choreographer Lina Limosani, Not Today’s Yesterday dances into the Patrick Studio at Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday.
The all-male comedy ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo takes its “fabulous sense of fun and their flawless dance” to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Rifco Theatre Company and Watford Palace Theatre with Oldham Coliseum Theatre present a new play about friendship and courage, Dishoom!, at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday while in the Studio Notnow Collective’s Dadman: The Bathtime Warrior takes a “fresh and funny” look at parenthood from the perspective of dads on Saturday.
“Part verbatim theatre, part improv, part comedy sketch show”, Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence’s Still No Idea can be seen in The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday, while in the Studio, Birmingham company Stan’s Café presents the première of The Capital, “where five very different people’s lives converge and diverge as they criss-cross the city in pursuit of five very different ambitions”, from Wednesday until Saturday.
Nativity! The Musical, written and directed by Coventry’s Debbie Isitt, opens its 2018 UK tour in the story’s native home of Coventry at the Belgrade Theatre from Tuesday until Sunday, while on the B2 stage, a series of classic fables from the Indian literary tradition are re-imagined in Shamser Sinha’s Three Sat Under the Banyan Tree on Friday and Saturday.
A cast of West End singers take their audience on a journey through music from The Greatest Showman, Moulin Rouge, Barnum and other musicals in The Greatest Show at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Wednesday.
Lesley Garrett joins Welsh National Opera for Rhondda Rips It Up! in the Royal, Northampton on Wednesday, the cast of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical will create a new musical comedy from scratch on Thursday and Tall Stories’ The Snail and the Whale swims in from Friday until Sunday.
Lost Boys tells the story of Frankenstein and how Mary Shelley’s novel was conceived in The Creation of Frankenstein at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Wednesday until Saturday.
A “celebration of working-class families who head out to the match each week, stand pitch-side with pride, supporting their local team”, Gary Lagden’s rugby play Fly Half tries to win over the audience Upstairs at the Western, Leicester on Thursday and Friday.
Improvised comedy troupe Austentatious tours An Improvised Jane Austen Novel Live to Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Thursday while Stafford Gatehouse Youth Theatre performs The Town the Great War Built in the MET Studio on Thursday and Friday.
The stage adaptation of Sam McBratney’s children’s book Guess How Much I Love You hops onto the stage at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Thursday and Friday.
I Dare You, Tom Powell’s play about love, family and trauma, visits Curve, Leicester on Thursday and Friday while ten years after the worldwide economic crash that led to the global banking system teetering on the edge, Proto-type Theater’s new show THE AUDIT (or Iceland, a modern myth) looks at how a small nation tackled the crisis on Friday.
New Perspectives and Pentabus collaborate to present Deirdre Kinahan’s Crossings, inspired by real-life occurrences of cross-dressing in the military, at the Old Library Theatre, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire on Thursday, South Holland Centre, Spalding, Lincolnshire on Friday and Geddington Village Hall, Northamptonshire on Saturday.
The Devil’s Bride, Richard Layton’s adaptation of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s tale A Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter, ghosts its way into the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Saturday.
Hugh Dennis, John Marquez and Lesley Garrett continue to play a cast of thousands in Patrick Barlow’s The Messiah at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Kinky Boots, with book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, continues at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre 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.
A new show with “spellbinding” puppets, Steve Kray’s Doctor Dolittle learns to talk to the animals at the Albany Theatre, Coventry on Sunday.
The Russian State Ballet and Opera House swans into Stafford Gatehouse Theatre with Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake on Sunday.
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; in the Swan Theatre, The Comedy of Errors, the RSC’s new First Encounters with Shakespeare offering for younger audiences, runs 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.