The Classic Thriller Season at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal concludes with Murder Weapon by Brian Clemens from Monday until Saturday.
Chapterhouse Theatre Company takes its open-air production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing to Nottingham Castle on Wednesday.
Leamington Spa-based Heartbreak Productions are in the Midlands with two of their outdoor shows, Peter Pan and the Lost Boys at St John’s House Museum, Warwick on Thursday and Shakespeare’s Macbeth, set in the trenches of World War I, at Nottingham Castle on Saturday and Sunday.
Illyria performs Roald Dahl’s George's Marvellous Medicine at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire on Friday.
The Rat Pack Vegas Spectacular Show swings into Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire on Sunday.
Wicked, for which 100,000 tickets have been snapped up for the show’s only date in the Midlands on its first UK tour, 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, Arden of Faversham continues until Thursday 2 October and John Webster’s revenge tragedy The White Devil continues until Saturday 29 November.