Cheek by Jowl’s Measure for Measure heads to Oxford, the wonderful Beyond Caring is at the National Theatre, and the Brighton festival and fringe have plenty to thrill
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jonathan Pryce are on stage in London, gay love in Uganda is explored in Manchester, and the Citizens theatre in Glasgow hosts a new play from Douglas Maxwell
Tim Firth's This Is My Family starts in Sheffield, Natalie McGrath's Oxygen celebrates the centenary of the 1913 suffrage pilgrimage from Land's End, and Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man opens in London
Lyn Gardner: The American Plan comes to Bath, Hugh Walpole's Rogue Herries is adapted for stage in Keswick, and The Hired Man is back in business in Colchester
Bring your mobile (or borrow one) for You With Me, a playful adventure in Exeter, recharge in Glasgow at Fuelfest, or scurry to Stratford, where the RSC previews The Mouse and his Child
Dermot Bolger stages Ulysses in Glasgow, Hugh Hughes returns to his roots with Stories from an Invisible Town, and there's European theatre galore in the Best of BE festival in London
Lyn Gardner: Mike Bartlett's new version of Medea sets out on a nationwide tour from Glasgow and Tim Minchin plays Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar at the O2 in London
Lyn Gardner: All eyes are on the opening of the Edinburgh fringe, but treats are also in store in the Lake District where French company Ilotopie walk on water and in London, Soho Cinders gives an adult twist to a familiar tale
Lyn Gardner: Why stick a pin in the Fringe brochure? Here are my top tips from deep inside Edinburgh – and a few pieces of advice for anyone approaching the festival for the first time
Adult life through the eyes of a teenager at the Drum in Plymouth, teenagers and grandparents perform together in Manchester, and Miriam Margoyles takes Dickens's Women to Oxford and the Holt festival
Ghost Parade prepares to haunt Ebbw Vale, a delightful Midsummer Night's Dream is on offer in Manchester and a series of free shows kicks off outside the NT and at the Scoop
Aerialists take flight in Norwich cathedral, a deconstructed Hamlet heads to Northern Stage in Newcastle, and real chariots are racing in Ben Hur near Newbury
Alan Cumming haunts audiences in a bold retelling of Macbeth in Glasgow, Devoted and Disgruntled hits the road and the Berkshire Giant awakens in Newbury
Lyn Gardner: A Doctor Who hit materialises in Ipswich, a Manchester office block provides the backdrop for a new play by poet Jackie Kay, and Alan Cumming plays all the parts in an unusual Macbeth
An Odyssey played out on the streets of Deptford, Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests trilogy in Liverpool, and the Pendle witches reconsidered in Lancaster
