Artists will perform songs from more than 20 shows in The West End Experience - A Showcase of the Musicals at the Belgrade, Coventry on Monday and Buxton Opera House on Saturday.
First Do No Harm, based on real events in the Fens at the start of the welfare state immediately before World War I, written by Hilary Spiers and directed by Caroline Frewin, continues its regional tour of the Midlands at the student-run New Theatre at Nottingham University on Tuesday.
African songs, western music and contemporary ballet “knit into a tapestry of sound and textures” in INALA – A Zulu Ballet, with music by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday.
Richard Alston Dance Company returns to Derngate, Northampton with a programme featuring four works including Alston’s Overdrive on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Northern Ballet brings F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby to the stage at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Birmingham Royal Ballet performs Beauty and the Beast at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.
Lichfield Garrick Youth Theatre’s 40-strong cast will purr with delight over Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats on the main stage at the Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.
Simon Callow stars in Matthew Hunt’s The Man Jesus, which looks at key moments in the life of Jesus through the eyes of the people who knew him, at Curve, Leicester on Wednesday.
As part of the Nigerian 54 Independence Day celebrations, Birmingham venue The Drum stages Ade Solanke’s award-wining tragi-comedy about a Nigerian family’s love, betrayal and choices, Pandora's Box, on Wednesday.
Audiences at Buxton Opera House should be in the mood for Bugle Boy, which features all Glenn Miller’s instantly recognisable tunes, from Wednesday until Friday.
HeadSpacesDance takes its debut production Three and Four Quarters to the Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Thursday.
UK Touring Theatre presents the world premiere of a new English translation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa on Thursday and Friday.
Derby-based company Maison Foo takes its latest show Pendulums Bargain Emporium to Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham on Friday.
Combining puppetry, immersive soundscapes and multimedia technology, award-winning company Tortoise in a Nutshell builds an entire world in front of the audience's eyes in Feral in Derby Theatre Studio on Friday.
Blackeyed Theatre’s Not About Heroes, Stephen MacDonald’s story about two of the finest Great War poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, visits Uppingham Theatre, Uppingham, Rutland on Friday and Saturday.
A new tour of Marie Jones’s award-winning comedy Stones in His Pockets stops off at Redditch Palace Theatre, Worcestershire on Friday and Coventry’s Belgrade on Saturday.
Peter Arnott’s new play Propaganda Swing, which tells the story of how some of the greatest German jazz musicians of the day entered into a Faustian pact with Fascists to keep playing their music at the price of seeing it corrupted for evil, is at Nottingham Playhouse from Friday until Saturday 18 October.
“Throwing out the theatre rulebook”, Zest Theatre invites partygoers to have complete freedom of movement to eat, drink, look through the bookshelves, join in the games and make as much noise as they like in Gatecrash, written and directed by Toby Ealden, which tours to Mitchell Arts Centre, Broad St, Stoke on Saturday.
David Frederickson’s The Unreturning Army, a performance of words, music and poetry which looks at the impact of World War I on the villages of the Peak, will be staged in Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre Studio on Saturday.
A romantic comedy play, “full of fun and laughter with many twists and turns for the whole family”, Romeo Fass Gaya Jugni De Pyar Wich is at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday.
Roy Williams has brought Sophocles' Antigone up to date in a re-telling of the Greek tragedy which continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday (hear director Marcus Romer talk about this in our podcast).
Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic continues to stage Richard Eyre’s new version of Ibsen's Ghosts until Saturday.
The Nottingham Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Inspired by the music of The Selecter, The Specials and the 2 Tone scene, Three Minute Heroes returns to Coventry’s Belgrade on the B2 stage from Saturday until 25 October.
Birmingham venue The Drum stages Bashment Housewives, an urban comedy drama highlighting the lifestyles of four competitive young women wanting to live a life full of luxury, on Sunday.
Guest singers Meeta Raval and Rodney Earl Clarke are Crazy for Gershwin at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Sunday.
Audiences can look forward to the time of their life when Dirty Dancing – the Classic Story on Stage continues at Wolverhampton Grand until Saturday 11 October.
The National Theatre’s production of War Horse continues at Stoke’s Regent Theatre until Saturday 11 October.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (Much Ado About Nothing), which opens on Friday, both continue until 14 March (press performance Wednesday 15 October) while in the Swan Theatre, 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.