Bill Kenwright’s production of Willy Russell’s musical Blood Brothers, featuring Lyn Paul as Mrs Johnstone for the final time, is at Derby Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Strictly Come Dancing winner Joe McFadden takes the lead in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at Malvern Theatres from Monday until Saturday.
South Africa choreographer Dada Masilo performs the title role in her “fearless” re-imagining of the ballet Giselle at Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Shane Richie plays Archie Rice in John Osborne’s The Entertainer at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Jaymi Hensley of the group Union J is Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Celebrations are taking place to mark the bicentenary of George Eliot’s birth, with Conn Artists Theatre Company bringing to the stage Silas Marner at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Tuesday and Wednesday and the Albany Theatre, Coventry on Friday and Saturday while in the Albany Studio Margaret Eddershaw’s verse drama based on the relationship the author had with the love of her life, George Lewes, From George to George can be seen on Wednesday and Thursday.
Isobel McArthur’s “adaptation like no other” of Jane Austen’s work, Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort of) tours to Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday 2 November.
Recounting the race between the United States and the Soviet Union to send the first man to the moon, One Small Step is an “inventive, funny and surprisingly moving action-packed show that crams 50 years of history into 60 minutes” at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Wednesday.
Claybody Theatre Company presents its new “warm-hearted comedy” The D-Road at the Spode Works, Stoke from Wednesday until Saturday 26 October.
Leicester Curve’s New Work Festival, showcasing “the most dynamic and exciting talent from the Midlands”, runs from Wednesday until Saturday 26 October.
Stand By Theatre Company performs an “honest and uplifting show about fear and the impact our decisions have on those we care about, told through movement, poetic text and visual inventiveness”, The Room at the Top of the House, in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Thursday.
Austentatious, a play featuring “a cast of the country’s quickest comic performers” who improvise a Jane Austen novel, opens a new chapter at Buxton Opera House on Thursday.
A new festival that invites audiences to “imagine better”, Change Festival takes place at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Friday until Sunday.
A show for under-threes which explores sand in “new and exciting ways”, Circles in the Sand goes against the grain at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
The second Amplify Festival of new work continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the picture book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury, Little Angel Theatre’s We’re Going on a Bear Hunt tours to the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham from Saturday until Wednesday 23 October.
The Pantaloons relocate Othello, Shakespeare’s tragedy of jealousy and deception, to a jazz-age setting, with live music, intense drama and “more than a hint of their own inimitable brand of theatrical mischief” at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Sunday.
The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough visits the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme with Season’s Greetings and Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present, both written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn which continue until Saturday 26 October.
Shakespeare's rarely-performed history play King John featuring Rosie Sheehy in the title role continues in the Swan Theatre, Stratford until Saturday 21 March 2020 while Hannah Khalil’s A Museum in Baghdad continues in the Swan Theatre until Saturday 25 January (press night Tuesday 22 October).