Andy Barrett’s new play The Second Minute, which explores the emotional impact of World War I on the ordinary men who became soldiers and the families they left behind, will be staged in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Monday as part of neat14, the Nottingham European Arts Theatre Festival, and at The Chase Neighbourhood Centre, St Ann’s, Nottingham on Tuesday.
The National Theatre’s award-winning comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, which features Gavin Spokes, Shaun Williamson and Emma Barton, tours to Birmingham Hippodrome from Monday until Saturday.
The Beatles show Let It Be day-trips into Derngate, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.
Sell A Door Theatre Company’s new, swashbuckling adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped washes up in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade from Tuesday until Saturday.
Headlong returns to Derby Theatre with Anya Reiss’s new version of Frank Wedekind’s play about youth-caused riots Spring Awakening from Wednesday until Saturday.
BalletLORENT’s new take on the fairy tale Rapunzel, narrated by Lesley Sharp and choreographed and directed by Liv Lorent, visits Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Thursday and Friday.
Theatre Works performs Amanda Whittington’s Be My Baby, set in a mother-and-baby home in 1964, in Derby Theatre Studio from Thursday until Saturday.
Creative Cow stages Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer at Buxton Opera House on Friday.
Swansea City Opera performs Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at Lichfield Garrick on Friday.
The first full production of a play which started life as part of Birmingham REP’s inaugural REP Foundry artists’ development programme, Francesca Millican-Slater’s Forensics of a Flat (and Other Stories), which traces the history of the playwright’s beloved flat and its inhabitants, gets its première in The Door at the REP on Friday and Saturday.
Stoke’s Victoria Hall gets cool with The Rat Pack Vegas Spectacular Show on Saturday.
Traditional and modern family life clash in Desi Peo, a “high-voltage Punjabi comedy play set in London”, at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday.
Stephen Blakeley, Laura Freeman and Sean O’Callaghan feature in Derby LIVE’s first in-house production since spring 2012, two one-act plays by Tim Elgood, The Dog House and Bare Words, collectively billed as Mad Dogs and an Englishman, which continue at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre until Saturday.
Tove Jansson’s Moomins are being brought to life in a new adventure, Moominsummer Madness, which continues in Northampton Royal and Derngate’s Underground Studio until Sunday 1 June.
A “tale of tradition and ambition and what happens when the legacy of a father collides with the dreams of his son”, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s Khandan (Family) continues in Birmingham REP’s Studio until Saturday 7 June.
Northampton Royal and Derngate’s revival of Patrick Marber’s dark comedy set in the world of amateur poker, Dealer’s Choice continues on the Royal stage until Saturday 14 June.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Henry IV Parts I and II continue until Saturday 6 September while in the Swan Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl continues until Tuesday 30 September and Arden of Faversham continues until Thursday 2 October.