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 in the Royal, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.
Gary Lucy, Andrew Dunn, Louis Emerick, Joe Gill, Kai Owen and James Redmond get to the bottom of Simon Beaufoy’s The Full Monty at Birmingham Hippodrome from Monday until Saturday.
On The Floor Theatre Company performs A Journey Through War which “captures life in the trenches, conscription, love and loss as well as many more aspects of how the war affected families in Britain” at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Monday until Saturday.
A “completely different wedding celebration where the bride, groom, best man and bridesmaids are world-class dancers and the audience members are the wedding guests”, Umanoove and Didy Veldman’s The Knot which will be performed to Stravinsky’s Les Noces with a score by Ben Foskett should get a good reception at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Tuesday.
An imagined meeting between poet W H Auden (Matthew Kelly) and composer Benjamin Britten (David Yelland) is at the centre of Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Northern Broadsides and York Theatre Royal’s presentation of Deborah McAndrew’s adaptation of Dario Fo’s They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! visits the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Tuesday until Saturday.
Victor Oshin takes the lead role in Richard Twyman’s production of Othello, staged by English Touring Theatre, Oxford Playhouse and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Rumpus Theatre Company performs a "dramatic, emotional new play set in the last moments of World War I", John Goodrum's The Eleventh Hour, at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from Tuesday until Saturday.
Coventry’s Youth Operetta Group presents Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Albany Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Theatre Absolute stages Sphere, the ninth and final commission of its two-year project Are We Where We Are?, which features seven artists and writers together on stage surrounded by the remnants and detritus of the previous eight works, at the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.
Opera North is at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham with Puccini’s Tosca on Wednesday and Friday and The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár on Thursday and Saturday.
Rosetta Life, a charity that “changes the way we perceive the frail and disabled”, has commissioned choreographer Ben Duke and composer Orlando Gough to create Stroke Odysseys which “explores intertwined journeys of recovery from stroke” in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Thursday.
Blackeyed Theatre returns to Lichfield Garrick with Nick Lane’s new adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four from Thursday 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 Thrumpton Village Hall, Nottinghamshire on Thursday, Waingroves Community Association, Derbyshire on Friday and South Luffenham Village Hall, Rutland on Saturday.
A “heartfelt, true story” of a Coventry family’s experiences of World War I, The Window, written by Paul Nolan and featuring his son Conor Nolan, can be seen at The Studio, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Jordan Well, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.
Adrian Kimberlin’s musical The Stars that Remain which has been developed over the past five years gets its premiere at the Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday.
A solo dance piece performed in a white cube space with a digitally animated environment, I Infinite visits the Guildhall Arts Centre, Grantham, Lincolnshire on Friday.
A group of fallen solders gather together “in a far-flung, forgotten Flanders field” to share their stories in Ceridwen Theatre’s Armistice: The Long Road to Peace in the Studio at the Albany Theatre, Coventry from Friday until Sunday.
Anna Jordan’s Pop Music follows two characters “on an epic journey through 30 years of pop” in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
No Kids by Nir Paldi and George Mann is the latest “energetic, hilarious, moving and thought-provoking play” from Bristol-based company Ad Infinitum in the Patrick Studio at Birmingham Hippodrome on Saturday.
Bryony Lavery’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s coming-of-age tale The Lovely Bones continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday while Orange Polar Bear, a “raw, funny and heart-rending new play about today’s younger generation trying to find their place in a fast-changing world”, continues in The Door until Saturday.
Mark Gatiss and Adrian Scarborough team up in Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III which continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 24 November.
Cameron Mackintosh’s Broadway production of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Les Misérables continues at Curve, Leicester until Saturday 24 November.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Troilus and Cressida continues until Saturday 17 November; 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.