Heartbreak Productions is in the Midlands with all three of its touring outdoor shows: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice which is at Hill Close Gardens, Warwick on Tuesday and Beckworth Emporium, Northamptonshire on Friday and Saturday, Peter Pan and the Lost Boys at the Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire on Thursday and Brockhampton Estate, Worcestershire on Saturday and Macbeth at Warley Woods, Smethwick, West Midlands on Sunday.
Pulse, a new hospital-based community play commissioned by Derby Theatre from writer Sally Siner, throbs into life at the theatre from Wednesday until Saturday.
Leicester’s Curve stages two community productions, Jonathan Larson’s award-winning musical Rent on Thursday and Friday and again on Monday and Thursday, 4 and 7 August, and Annie, which continues until Sunday 10 August.
Worcestershire touring company Madcap performs Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at The Roses, Sun Street, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire on Friday.
Pantaloons Theatre Company takes a “breathless race through the centuries” in History of Britain at Canons Ashby, Daventry, Northamptonshire on Friday.
Illyria discovers that a policeman’s lot is not a happy one when it presents Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular comic opera, Pirates of Penzance, in the open air at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire on Friday.
Wicked continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 6 September.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Two Gentlemen of Verona continues until Thursday 4 September and Henry IV Parts I and II continue until Saturday 6 September while in the Swan Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl continues until Tuesday 30 September and Arden of Faversham continues until Thursday 2 October.