Midlands productions

Published: 12 May 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

End to End at mac, Birmingham on Tuesday and Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Wednesday
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare {Abridged} (Revised) at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Friday
Cooking with Elvis continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday Credit: Robert Day

The nation’s “favourite rock ‘n’ roll variety show” That’ll be the Day returns to Buxton Opera House with a new production for 2013 on Monday.

Sebastian Faulks’s story of love, courage and sacrifice, Birdsong, visits Northampton Royal from Monday until Saturday.

Karl Howman, Bruno Langley, Graham Seed, Steven France, Jemma Walker and Clare Wilkie feature in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap which tours to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday.

Dolly Parton’s comedy 9 to 5 The Musical tours to Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.

The Gramophones Theatre Company performs End to End, the story about three women travelling from Land’s End to John O’Groats, “trusting only their resourcefulness and the kindness of strangers”, at mac, Birmingham on Tuesday and Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Wednesday.

Michael Praed, Daniel Boys and Sophie Bould feature in Cole Porter’s timeless classic High Society which stops off at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.

Opera UK performs Verdi’s La Traviata, sung in English with a new translation, at Buxton Opera House on Thursday.

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons' tribute act The Sherry Babys will walk like a man into The Core at Corby Cube on Thursday.

The Palace Junior Youth Theatre Company presents Jacqueline Wilson’s Beauty and the Beast at the Old Library Theatre, Mansfield on Thursday and Friday.

The premiere of East Midlands touring company New Perspectives' Entertaining Angels by Brendan Murray, a "humorous and touching look at the role of the Church in contemporary village life and what it really means to be a Christian in the 21st century", vists Nottinghamshire venues Thrumpton Village Hall on Thursday and Lowdham Village Hall on Sunday.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company is back with “the same recycled jokes in a different order” in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised) at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Friday.

A French farce by eccentric writer Alfred Jarry which has been translated by Kenneth McLeish, Ubu is a Kaleidoscope Intermediate Theatre Company presentation at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Friday and Saturday.

G.R.A.F.T. Entertainment stages Uncle Ben, a play about family relationship issues, at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday.

Nottingham Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse’s European première of Khaled Hosseini’s first novel The Kite Runner continues in Nottingham until Saturday.

Derby Theatre’s first professional-produced show, Lee Hall’s Cooking With Elvis, continues until Saturday.

Relative Pitch Opera highlights the career of singer Florence Easton in The Nightingale of South Bank at the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio Theatre, Buxton on Sunday.

Matribhoomi Theatre and The Drum present Naukar Woti Da, a “Punjabiwood comedy play based on love full of hatred, full family entertainment with lots of laughter, fun, music and dance”, at The Drum, Birmingham on Sunday.

Ceri Dupree returns to Curve in a new production of “Leicester’s favourite musical” Hot Stuff which continues until Sunday, 26 May.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Hamlet and As You Like It both continue until Saturday, 28 September.

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