Midlands productions

Published: 21 September 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Sell A Door Theatre Company presents Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts at Buxton Opera House
Brigit Forsyth (Iris) and Sian Phillips (Dorothy) in People at Curve, Leicester Credit: Ellie Kurttz
Jennifer Biddall and Mark Homer in The Ripper Files at Buxton Opera House

Ben Forster, Dani Harmer, Philip Franks and Oliver Thornton—who plays Frank N Furter—do the time warp when The Rocky Horror Show visits Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday.

Sell A Door Theatre Company spirits Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts to Buxton Opera House on Tuesday.

“The nation's longest touring rock 'n' roll show” That’ll Be The Day makes its first appearance at Mansfield Palace Theatre in ten years on Tuesday.

The National Theatre production of Alan Bennett’s latest play People tours to Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Saturday.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company is on the road with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] which stops off at Lichfield Garrick on Wednesday.

All and Sundry presents Separate Tables, regarded as Terence Rattigan’s finest work, at mac, Birmingham from Wednesday until Saturday.

Madness breaks out when Derby Youth Musical Theatre puts on its baggy trousers for Our House at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday.

Broadway Theatre and Cutting The Strings present Graham Warrener’s new play based on Les Dawson's comic TV characters, Cissie and Ada: An Hysterical Rectomy at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Thursday.

Hollie-Jay Bowes, Terri Dwyer and Diane Keen appear in “the ultimate girls’ night out”, Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, at Lichfield Garrick on Thursday.

Blue Orange Arts performs Eric Gracey’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday.

Mo Shapiro stages a one-woman tribute to a “comic genius” in Victoria Wood And Me, a fundraiser for Northampton Royal and Derngate’s community theatre, in the Underground, Northampton on Friday.

James Martin Charlton’s Coward, a speculative play about the life of playwright, performer, musician and wit Noël Coward, is a Just Some Theatre Company presentation at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre Studio Theatre on Friday.

John Lyons appears as ex-Detective Inspector Lestrange in Rumpus Theatre Company’s The Ripper Files, a “spine-tingling new whodunnit based on the world's most famous case”, at Buxton Opera House on Friday and Saturday.

Derby Festé, an annual event that showcases outdoor performances by companies from across the UK and abroad, takes place at various locations around Derby city centre on Friday and Saturday.

Lucky Fin Productions tells the tale of Richard III through the voices of the women who surrounded him in I Would I Knew Thy Heart—Richard III Retold at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre Studio Theatre on Saturday.

Back after two UK tours and featuring two hours of song and dance numbers from stage and screen, Gotta Sing Gotta Dance returns to Stoke’s Regent Theatre on Saturday.

Headlong’s tour of George Orwell’s 1984 continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.

The world première of the stage version of To Sir, With Love, based on E R Braithwaite’s autobiography and adapted by Ayub Khan Din, continues at Northampton Royal until Saturday.

The first offering in Birmingham REP’s newest auditorium The Studio, a staged performance of jazz and hip-hop artist Soweto Kinch’s album The Legend of Mike Smith, continues until Saturday.

The touring production of Disney’s The Lion King continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.

Comedian, singer, actor and chat show host Brian Conley will present “an unmissable evening of entertainment” at Lichfield Garrick on Sunday.

Described as “the rat pack of opera”, Tenors Un Limited’s tenth anniversary tour takes in Buxton Opera House on Sunday.

Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 psychological thriller Gaslight continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 5 October.

Kate Tempest’s latest play Hopelessly Devoted continues in The Door at Birmingham REP until Saturday 5 October.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre All’s Well That Ends Well continues until Thursday while Hamlet and As You Like It both continue until Saturday; in the Swan, Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean comedy A Mad World My Masters continues until 25 October while Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus and Mark Ravenhill’s response to Voltaire’s Candide both continue until 26 October.

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