Midlands productions

Published: 15 April 2012
Reporter: Steve Orme

ShylockGuy Masterson performs Gareth Armstrong's one-man show Shylock at Buxton Opera House tomorrow (Monday).

Craig Gazey, Suzanne Shaw, Gemma Bissex, Vicky Entwistle and Derbyshire actor Steven Blakeley come together in Mike Scott's comedy Funny Peculiar at Derby Theatre from tomorrow until Saturday.

Described as "the ultimate rock ‘n' roll party", Dreamboats and Petticoats rocks Derby's Assembly Rooms from tomorrow until Saturday.

A new rock ‘n' roll musical inspired by the music of the early 1960s and from the writers, producers, creators and director of Dreamboats and Petticoats, Save the Last Dance for Me is at Nottingham's Theatre Royal from tomorrow until Saturday.

Gonzo Moose presents a "surreal, swashbuckling, comedy adventure" I'm an Aristocrat - Get Me out of Here at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Tuesday.

Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van drives into Stoke's Regent Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

Birmingham Stage Company delves into more Horrible Histories with tales of Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.

Keith Jack in JosephKeith Jack takes the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Sunday, 29 April.

Margi Clarke joins the Hormonal Housewives at Lichfield Garrick on Tuesday and Wednesday and at Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall on Thursday.

Sara Coward and Sunny Osmonde, who play two of The Archers' most popular characters Caroline Sterling and Lillian Bellamy, present Wicked Women, an evening of sketches, poetry, prose and anecdotes, at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Wednesday.

That'll be the Day rolls into Derngate, Northampton on Thursday.

Leslie Ash and Brooke Kinsella appear in a new play All the Single Ladies at Buxton Opera House on Friday.

A one-act comic-drama from Breathe Out Theatre, The Opposite of Claustrophobia, written by Manchester playwright Rob Johnston, about an unhappy housewife who disturbs a burglar in her kitchen, is at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre Studio on Friday and Saturday.

Birmingham venue The Drum should cash in with Dutty Money which follows the story of Fed X, a struggling child entertainer in Jamaica who has to pretend to be his landlord's fictitious daughter, on Saturday.

Northampton's Derngate hosts Puccini's La Boheme, directed by Ellen Kent, on Saturday.

Gwen Taylor continues in Michael Morpurgo's The Butterfly Lion in the Studio at Curve, Leicester until Saturday.

Brian Conley plays Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh's new production of Oliver! at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.

Ranjana Ganhar pays homage to the genius of Nobel Laureatte Rabindranath Tagore in the dance drama Chitrangada at The Drum, Birmingham next Sunday.

Ladies in LavendarHayley Mills and Belinda Lang continue in the world premiere stage production of Ladies in Lavender at the Royal, Northampton until Saturday, 28 April.

Alecky Blythe's Where Have I Been All My Life?, created especially for the New Vic at Newcastle-under-Lyme, continues at the north Staffordshire theatre-in-the-round until Saturday, 28 April.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, The Comedy of Errors continues until 14 May (press performance 25 April); Twelfth Night (press night 25 April) continues until 15 May; The Tempest continues until 19 May (press performance on 1 May); Richard III continues until 15 September (press night 17 April); and King John also continues until 15 September (press night 19 April).

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