The Nottingham Playhouse, Curve Theatre and Tom O'Connell for QNQ production of Jonathan Harvey’s “witty urban love story” Beautiful Thing, which features Charlie Brooks, Thomas Law and Sam Jackson, can be seen in the Studio at Curve, Leicester from Monday until Saturday while Mischief Theatre Company takes to the Curve main stage with Peter Pan Goes Wrong from Tuesday until Saturday.
Ellesmere Port company Action Transport Theatre quizzed hundreds of children on issues that have puzzled adults for centuries and the results are revealed in STATik at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Monday, Lincoln Drill Hall on Wednesday, The Castle, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire on Thursday, Deda, Derby on Friday and The Door at Birmingham REP on Saturday.
There should be plenty of laughs when the Reduced Shakespeare Company takes its latest tour The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) to Derby Theatre on Tuesday and the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton on Thursday.
The latest productions in Birmingham Stage Company’s Horrible Histories series, Groovy Greeks and Incredible Invaders, force their way into the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.
Buxton Opera House hosts the Watermill Theatre production of Calamity Jane, featuring Jodie Prenger, from Tuesday until Saturday.
Directed by Michael Flatley and featuring “40 of the world’s most outstanding young performers”, Lord of the Dance—Dangerous Games continues at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham until Tuesday and then moves to the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham from Thursday until Sunday.
The National Theatre’s award-winning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, adapted by Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon’s book, bounds into Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday 6 June.
“Heart-pounding music, passionate romance and sensationally sexy dancing” should ensure audiences at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham have the time of their lives when Dirty Dancing—The Classic Story on Stage waltzes in from Tuesday until Saturday 13 June.
Warwick University Drama Society explores “our cultural attitude towards pornography” in Sarah Daniels’s Masterpieces in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.
The Northern Broadsides production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear visits the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Wednesday until Saturday 13 June.
New Perspectives takes Tim Elgood’s new play Unforgettable, which sheds light on the effects of dementia on family relationships, to St Christopher’s Church Hall, Nottingham on Thursday, Bonington Theatre, Arnold, Nottingham on Friday and County Hall, Matlock, Derbyshire on Saturday.
Ruby Wax’s show Sane New World, based on her book of the same name which “helps us understand why we sabotage our sanity with our own thinking”, visits Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday.
We Can Be Heroes, “a show about facing your fears and becoming a super hero”, is a Sometimes We Play in association with LittleMighty presentation in Derby Theatre’s studio on Friday.
Story Pocket Theatre tells the tale of Arabian Nights with “music, puppetry and theatrical magic” at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Friday.
Using a combination of performances derived from audio recordings and fictional monologues, Different is Dangerous, giving a “unique insight into the idiosyncratic life of the Asian community living in Leeds”, is a devised piece performed by its creators Nyla Levy and Fadia Qaraman at The Drum, Birmingham on Friday.
Zoe Birkett plays the lead role of Rachel Marron in Thea Sharrock’s production of the musical The Bodyguard which continues at Stoke’s Regent Theatre until Saturday.
Former Coronation Street actors Vicky Entwistle and Chris Gascoyne are joined by Nancy Sullivan in a new production of Jim Cartwright’s The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice which continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Martin McDonagh’s black comedy A Skull in Connemara, one of his Leenane trilogy of plays, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 6 June (press night Tuesday 26 May).
American writer and lyricist Donna Moore’s show Cougar the Musical which is having its UK première continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre until Saturday 6 June.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Palestinian-Israeli actor Makram J Khoury makes his RSC debut as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice which continues until Wednesday 2 September 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 until Tuesday 8 September.