Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called to investigate when Victorian England is gripped by grisly killings in Whitechapel, dubbed by the press as the work of Jack the Ripper, in Sherlock Holmes and the Ripper Murders by Brian Clemens at Buxton Opera House from Monday until Wednesday.
The final play in the Colin McIntyre Classic Thriller Season at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham is Stage Struck by Simon Gray which runs from Monday until Saturday.
The Elvis Presley musical Love Me Tender, featuring Mica Paris as Sylvia, Sian Reeves as Mayor Matilda Hyde, Shaun Williamson as Jim and Ben Lewis as Chad, tours to the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Monday until Saturday.
Heartbreak Productions takes Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost to Nottingham Castle on Wednesday.
Creative Stage Productions performs Stafford's first summer pantomime, Beauty and the Beast, at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday.
Chapterhouse Theatre Company stages an adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Sunday.
Alexandra Burke plays the lead role of Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 5 September.
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 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.