English Touring Opera takes Puccini’s La Bohème and Donizetti’s The Wild Man of the West Indies to Leicester’s Curve on Monday and Tuesday and to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday; a new one-act opera, Russell Hepplewhite’s Shackleton’s Cat, will also be performed at Warwick Arts Centre on Saturday at 2PM.
David Bedella, Cory English, Tiffany Graves, Phill Jupitus, Jason Manford and Louie Spence are in the cast of The Producers which visits the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Monday until Saturday.
Jason Thorpe, Robert Webb and Christopher Ryan appear in Jeeves and Wooster—Perfect Nonsense at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, presented by Nottingham Playhouse, Curve Theatre and Tom O'Connell for QNQ, moves to Nottingham Playhouse from Monday until Saturday 9 May (press night Tuesday 28 April).
A double bill by Christopher Bruce CBE, including a new work Shadows and a restaging of his study of life in the 1940s, Shift, and two other pieces will be performed by Phoenix Dance Theatre during a mixed programme at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday.
Wendy Houstoun, winner of the 2013 TMA award for achievement in dance, takes to the stage in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry with Pact with Pointlessness on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Tara Arts in association with Queen's Hall Arts and Black Theatre Live presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Set in a world of one-night gigs in sleazy northern clubs, Amanda Whittington’s Satin ‘n’ Steel, featuring Tom Roberts and Kilke John, visits Lichfield Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.
Marcus Collins joins fellow X Factor contestant Lloyd Daniels in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Belgrade, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
The national tour of Thea Sharrock’s production of The Bodyguard stops off at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday 2 May.
Stan’s Café stages the world première of A Translation of Shadows, performed by Craig Stephens and directed by James Yarker, in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Wednesday until Friday.
Stopgap Dance Company, “the UK’s leading dance company that integrates exceptional disabled and non-disabled dancers”, presents Artificial Things at mac birmingham on Thursday.
Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre performs a new adaptation of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw from Thursday until Saturday 2 May.
Shakespeare Young Company, a division of Playbox Theatre, opens its new season at the Dream Factory, Warwick with As You Like It which starts on Thursday and Macbeth on Friday, both running until Saturday 2 May.
Baroque Theatre Company tours Alma Cullen’s House of Ghosts, the only Inspector Morse play written for the stage and inspired by the novels of Colin Dexter, to the Bonington Theatre, Arnold Leisure Centre, Arnold, Nottinghamshire on Friday.
A journey through the prolific career of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Let’s Hang On walks like a man into The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Friday.
Anthony Burgess’s translation of Edmund Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac continues on the Northampton Royal stage until Saturday.
The touring version of Shrek the Musical continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday.
Steve Thompson’s new play Feed the Beast which follows a new Prime Minister’s first 100 days in power continues in the Studio at Birmingham REP until Saturday 2 May.
Graham Linehan’s new adaptation of the classic comedy The Ladykillers continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 2 May.
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 while in the Swan Theatre John Ford’s rarely performed play Love's Sacrifice continues until Wednesday 24 June and Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta continues until Tuesday 8 September.