Birmingham REP Foundry artist Hannah Graham’s play Collidoscope, a “bittersweet story of how fantasy and reality collide in the effervescent mind of an ordinary girl on an extraordinary journey”, receives its première in The Door at the REP on Monday.
Third Man Theatre in association with Nottingham Playhouse and the Bike Shed presents Mugs’ Arrows by Buxton writer Eddie Elks, a “surreal, black comedy set in the very ordinary surroundings of a Derbyshire pub”, in the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio, Buxton on Monday and Tuesday.
Wendi Peters, best known for playing Cilla Battersby-Brown in Coronation Street, features in Joan Littlewood’s Oh What a Lovely War The Musical at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Monday until Saturday.
Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, a “glorious urban love story between two young men set on an inner-city housing estate”, whose cast includes Charlie Brooks, Thomas Law, Sam Jackson, Gerard McCarthy and Vanessa Babirye, visits the Patrick Centre at Birmingham Hippodrome from Monday until Saturday 11 April.
Simon Stephens’s adaptation based on Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time bounds into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday 11 April.
Nottingham Playhouse hosts the Oldham Coliseum production of Ian Kershaw’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s “unsettling” ghost story The Mist in the Mirror from Tuesday until Saturday.
Voted one of the greatest plays of the 20th century in a National Theatre poll, John Godber's Bouncers, a John Godber Company and Theatre Royal Wakefield presentation, transforms the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme into a nightclub from Tuesday until Saturday.
Robert Gwilym, Paul Opacic and Joanna Higson look into The Business of Murder, Middle Ground Theatre Company’s staging of Richard Harris’s psychological thriller, at Lichfield Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.
The touring version of Shrek the Musical plays Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Sunday 26 April.
Tom Roberts and Kilke John are Satin ‘n’ Steel in a new touring production of Nottingham writer Amanda Whittington’s play in the Studio at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on Wednesday and Thursday.
Caroline Horton’s Penelope RETOLD, the story of Odysseus from his wife’s point of view, tours to The Door at Birmingham REP on Wednesday and Thursday.
Darwin, The Origin of Species, written and performed by John Hinton, the story of how Darwin came to discover the secrets of evolution and why it took him more than 20 years before he plucked up courage to publish his idea, is Upstairs at the Western, Leicester on Thursday and at Buxton Opera House on Saturday.
Derby Theatre Youth Theatre stages a double bill of Dust by Sarah Daniels and Dreamtime by Stacey Sampson, devised in partnership with the young people from the Youth Theatre, at Derby Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
Buxton Opera House celebrates a “story of love, joy, happiness and heartache” in Essence of Ireland on Friday.
Playbox Theatre performs The Passion in St Mary’s Church, Warwick on Good Friday and The Mysteries Trilogy at the Dream Factory, Warwick on Saturday and Sunday.
Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ The Musical continues at Leicester’s Curve Theatre until Saturday.
Tamasha and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry continue to present Blood by Emteaz Hussain, a “21st century urban love story”, in the Belgrade’s B2 auditorium until Saturday 11 April.
The Royal Shakespeare Company continues to celebrate the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth by staging Death of a Salesman in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford until Saturday 2 May (press night Wednesday 1 April) while in the Swan Theatre Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta continues until Tuesday 8 September.