Designed by Helen Parlor, assistant choreographer for the Paralympic Games, Close Distance – A Show About Next Door visits Worcestershire when Parlor Dance Company makes its debut at Artrix, Bromsgrove on Monday.
American folk legend Woody Guthrie is the subject of a new play with music, Woody Sez – The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie, at Buxton Opera House on Monday.
The Official Agatha Christie Theatre Company is on the road with its eighth production, Go Back for Murder, which stops off at Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
Karl Howman, Bruno Langley, Graham Seed, Steven France, Jemma Walker and Clare Wilkie appear in the 60th anniversary UK tour of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre from Monday until Saturday.
Written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran and featuring the music of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, Save the Last Dance for Me should rock Derby’s Assembly Rooms from Monday until Saturday.
A “one-man, 21-woman evening of hysterical comedy, amazing vocal impersonations and jaw-dropping costumes”, The Ceri Dupree Show brings the magic of Las Vegas to life in the Studio at Curve, Leicester from Monday until Saturday.
Comedy duo LipService stages “a Swedish self-assembly crime thriller”, Inspector Norse, at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday.
Paul Bown, Clive Mantle, Chris McAlphy, Cliff Parisi, William Troughton and Michelle Dotrice tour the celebrated Ealing comedy The Ladykillers to Leicester’s Curve from Tuesday until Saturday.
Matthew Bourne’s gothic romance Sleeping Beauty, with music by Tchaikovsky, dances into Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.
Pigeon Theatre presents its new show, The Smell of Envy, which “investigates the science behind smell and the link that smell has to memory and place”, at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Wednesday.
Mike Davis’s and Rob Crouch’s play Oliver Reed: Wild Thing which premièred at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe will be performed by Rob Crouch at Derby Theatre on Thursday.
Comedy legend Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden are Going Gaga at The Core at Corby Cube on Thursday.
Staffordshire theatre company Opus is at Lichfield Garrick with John Christopher Wood’s Elsie and Norm’s Macbeth on Thursday and Friday.
A one-woman show written and performed by Nikky Norton-Shafau, The Adventures of Sky – the Reluctant Hero will be staged in The Lab studio space at The Core at Corby Cube from Thursday until Saturday.
Imitating the Dog and Pete Brooks will “take their audience on a breath-taking journey in their twisted tale of how a moment in history can have an infinite number of outcomes for those caught up in its sweep” in The Zero Hour at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Friday and Saturday.
With “a fantastic programme, a lorry load of costume changes and lashings of diva attitude”, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo takes to the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall stage on Friday and Saturday.
Presenting a show that’s entirely improvised and with a new musical at every performance, The Showstoppers are at Derby Theatre on Saturday.
Alan Ayckbourn’s Joking Apart—the first Ayckbourn Nottingham Playhouse has produced in more than a decade—continues until Saturday 16 February.
Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic continues to stage Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads—with Conrad Nelson in A Chip in the Sugar, Roberta Kerr in Cream Cracker under the Settee and Hazel Maycock in Lady of Letters—until Saturday 16 February.
Laurie Sansom’s last production for Northampton Royal and Derngate before he leaves to head up the National Theatre of Scotland, Willy Russell’s One for the Road continues on the Royal stage until Saturday 23 February.
Gogol’s comic masterpiece Marriage continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade until Saturday 23 February.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Tara Fitzgerald continues in The Winter’s Tale until Saturday 23 February; in the Swan The Orphan of Zhao, sometimes referred to as the Chinese Hamlet and tracing its origins to the 4th century BC, continues until Thursday 28 March, Ian McDiarmid takes the title role in Mark Ravenhill’s new translation of Brecht's A Life of Galileo until Saturday 30 March while the world première of Adrian Mitchell’s adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov also continues until 30 March.