Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young soldier awaiting the firing squad, at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Monday and Tuesday.
UK Touring Theatre takes the world première of an English translation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House to the Guildhall Arts Centre, Grantham on Monday, Loughborough Town Hall on Tuesday and The Castle, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire on Wednesday.
The rock ‘n’ roll swagger of the Rolling Stones is brought to life in Rooster, Christopher Bruce and Rambert’s celebration of the swinging ‘60s, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Thursday.
Pentabus Theatre Company stages Rory Mullarkey’s Each Slow Dusk, “focusing on people from rural communities, their experiences of the Great War and its legacy”, at Shropshire venues the Talbot Theatre at Whitchurch Leisure Centre on Tuesday, Quatt Village Hall on Wednesday and SpArC Theatre on Thursday.
The Out of Joint, Chichester Festival Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe production of Pitcairn, Richard Bean’s brutal telling of the colonisation of the remote island of Pitcairn by Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers, tours to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Friday.
Tim Firth’s new musical comedy This is My Family visits Northampton Royal from Tuesday until Saturday.
Blackeyed Theatre’s Not About Heroes, Stephen MacDonald’s story about two of the finest Great War poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, is told at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Tuesday until Saturday.
The West End production of Top Hat should turn heads at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday 1 November.
Ballet Cymru looks at “the greatest love story ever told” in Beauty and the Beast at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.
Su Pollard and Cannon and Ball romp through Sherwood Forest in Ha Ha Hood! And the Prince of Leaves at Lichfield Garrick on Wednesday and Thursday.
The life, death and legacy of the inspirational anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko are unveiled in Biko’s Quest at The Drum, Birmingham on Thursday.
Rumpus Theatre Company’s “twisting, seductive new thriller” Sherlock Holmes: the Scandal of the Scarlet Woman is at Chesterfield’s Pomegranate Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
Derby-based company Maison Foo takes its show Pendulums Bargain Emporium, a “greedy fairy tale for grown-ups”, to Embrace Arts, Leicester on Friday.
Mamela, which follows a group of young women from the Eastern Cape of South Africa, capturing the opinions, experiences and aspirations of those born towards the end of the apartheid era, is a fusion of European and African theatre which can be seen at The Drum, Birmingham on Friday.
Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre presents the classic horror tale Frankenstein from Friday until Saturday 6 November.
The most famous speeches of Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1999, are revisited in Mpumelo Paul Grootboom's Rhetorical at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday.
Birmingham Hippodrome, which opened the first UK tour of Blood Brothers in 1995, continues to stage Willy Russell’s musical until Saturday.
Alan Ayckbourn’s new comedy drama Roundelay—a collection of five short plays, the order of which is decided on the night by a member of the audience—continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
Inspired by the music of The Selecter, The Specials and the 2 Tone scene, Three Minute Heroes continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade until Saturday.
A new production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 1 November.
Dame Janet Suzman and Khayalethu Anthony continue in Solomon and Marion, a story of two injured souls searching for redemption in a fragile, post-apartheid South Africa, in the Studio at Birmingham REP until Saturday 1 November.
Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party, the first play to be produced in the round at Leicester’s Curve, continues in the Studio until Saturday 8 November.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (Much Ado About Nothing) both continue until 14 March while in the Swan Theatre John Webster’s revenge tragedy The White Devil continues until Saturday 29 November.