Ayub Khan Din’s semi-autobiographical account of British Asian life in the 1970s and the clash of cultures within a multi-cultural family, East is East, visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
Derby-based company Oddsocks presents Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Markeaton Park Craft Village, Derby from Tuesday until Thursday.
Outdoor touring company Heartbreak Productions is in the Midlands with two of its shows, Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost at Hill Close Gardens, Warwick on Tuesday and Jane Austen’s Emma at Warley Woods, Smethwick, Birmingham on Thursday.
Michael Praed, Noel Sullivan, Carley Stenson and Mark Benton are Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Tuesday until Saturday.
Simon Webbe, Daniel Buckley, Alison Jiear, Leanne Jones and Taofique Folarin are in the cast of Stiles and Drew's musical The Three Little Pigs which trots into Birmingham Town Hall from Tuesday until Sunday.
Based on the diaries of Tony Benn, one of Britain’s most respected, divisive and celebrated politicians, Tony’s Last Tape by Andy Barratt, with Philip Bretherton as Benn, returns to the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse from Thursday until Saturday.
Derby Theatre’s “summer festival of theatre with innovative performances, insightful workshops and much more”, DEparture Lounge continues until Friday.
Brian Conley takes the lead role in Barnum at Birmingham Hippodrome which continues until Saturday.
Madcap Productions tours Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Greyfriars House and Gardens, Worcester on Saturday and Victoria Pleasure Gardens, Tewkesbury on Sunday.
Domestic violence, female harassment, child abuse, discrimination and the conflict of identity faced by a family are issues analysed in Tere Mere Nakhry at The Drum, Birmingham on Sunday.
A community production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, set in contemporary Russia, continues at Leicester’s Curve until Monday 3 August.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Hugh Quarshie and Lucian Msamati team up to play Othello and Iago in Iqbal Khan’s production of Othello which continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Friday 28 August and plays in repertoire with The Merchant of Venice which continues until Wednesday 2 September; in the Swan Theatre, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta continues until Tuesday 8 September and Volpone until Saturday 12 September.