Robert Lindsay plays cinematographer Jack Cardiff and Tara Fitzgerald is his wife Nicola in Terry Johnson’s Prism which tours to Malvern Festival Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Nigel Slater’s Toast, Henry Filloux-Bennett’s adaptation of cook and food writer Nigel Slater’s book, is on the menu at Chesterfield Pomegranate from Monday until Saturday.
Queen and Ben Elton’s musical We Will Rock You, which includes 24 of the band’s greatest hits, should produce a champion performance at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
The Christmas 2019 production at Birmingham venue Midlands Arts Centre (mac) will be Kipper’s Snowy Day, based on the Kipper stories by Mick Inkpen and performed by Slot Machine Theatre, from Tuesday until Tuesday 31 December.
Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts stages Vanessa Oakes’s work-in-progress Side by Side, a project for learning disabled women about how friendships are tested through difficult times in the performing arts studio on Wednesday and Tall Stories presents The Snow Dragon in the Djanogly Theatre from Thursday until Sunday 8 December and also from 24 until 31 December.
Raymond Briggs’s Father Christmas, a Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Pins and Needles production, heads to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Wednesday until Sunday 29 December.
Coventry’s Belgrade performs Puss in Boots for the first time in 28 years, with Iain Lauchlan marking 25 years at the theatre by writing and directing the panto which runs from Wednesday until Saturday 11 January.
Theatre in Black takes Loop, a one-person performance devised by Ryan Leder and Helen Crevel which looks at steps to overcome loneliness, to the Old Library, Mansfield on Thursday.
Julia Donaldson’s sequel to Edward Lear’s poem, The Further Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat, is brought to life for the first time in the Underground Studio, Northampton from Thursday until Sunday 5 January, in Derngate That’ll Be The Day returns with its new Christmas show on Saturday and in the Royal auditorium Jim Barne and Kit Buchan’s new musical The Season which previewed in Northampton at the beginning of the month continues until Saturday.
London’s Proforça Theatre Company makes an “explosive” return to the Albany Studio, Coventry with At Last, written by James Lewis and Alexander Knott and directed by Coventry-born David Brady, a “dark, sometimes brutal story of a mother who fought for her broken sons and the father that stood in judgement”, on Friday.
Birmingham-based Spectra invites audiences on a “fun and whimsical adventure, using all their senses to triumph in a game of extraordinary imagination”, in its new, multi-sensory, immersive show Eat The Stars at Sense Touchbase Pears, Birmingham on Friday and Saturday.
Luca Silvestrini’s Protein presents The Little Prince, the tale of a child navigating the baffling world of grown-ups adapted into a dance theatre production, in the Patrick Studio at Birmingham Hippodrome on Friday and Saturday while on the main stage Birmingham Royal Ballet’s “timeless” production of Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker continues until Saturday 14 December.
Olivia Birchenough, Melanie Walters, Adam Moss, Jamie Morris and Tarot Joseph go to the ball in Cinderella at Mansfield Palace Theatre from Saturday until Sunday 5 January.
Birmingham Old Rep’s Christmas show, Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen, continues until Monday 30 December.
A new adaptation of Edward Lear’s nonsense poem The Owl and The Pussycat, a Hammerpuzle presentation, continues at the Everyman Cheltenham until Tuesday 31 December.
Nottingham Playhouse’s panto Sleeping Beauty continues until Saturday 11 January.
Jamie Muscato plays Tony and Adriana Ivelisse, a Puerto Rican native making her professional UK debut, is Maria in West Side Story, with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, which continues at Curve, Leicester until Saturday 11 January.
The Theatre Chipping Norton pantomime Puss in Boots continues until Sunday 12 January.
A new production of Mark Twain’s The Prince and The Pauper, the Christmas show at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, continues until Saturday 25 January.
At the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, David Walliams’s The Boy in the Dress featuring music by Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers continues until Sunday 8 March 2020 while in the Swan Theatre Hannah Khalil’s A Museum in Baghdad continues until Saturday 25 January and Shakespeare's rarely-performed history play King John featuring Rosie Sheehy in the title role continues until Saturday 21 March.