Midlands productions

Published: 25 January 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

Emma Barton and Gavin Spokes in One Man, Two Guvnors at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal Credit: Johan Perrson
Brian Conley as P T Barnum and Linzi Hateley as Chairy in Barnum at Wolverhampton Grand Credit: Johan Perrson
Forever Young at Nottingham Playhouse

The National Theatre’s award-winning comedy, Richard Bean’s One Man, Two Guvnors, featuring Gavin Spokes and Emma Barton, tours to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

Coventry’s Belgrade hosts the stage premiere of Peter James’s best-selling novel Dead Simple, which features Tina Hobley, Jamie Lomas and Gray O’Brien in the role of Detective Roy Grace, from Monday until Saturday.

The Beatles and the Mersey sound feature in Dreamboats and Miniskirts, the sequel to Dreamboats and Petticoats, which dances into Northampton’s Derngate from Monday until Saturday.

Mischief Theatre Company presents “great entertainment” which is “not to be missed” in Peter Pan Goes Wrong at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.

Brian Conley plays the demanding title role in the Chichester Festival Theatre and Cameron Mackintosh revival of Barnum which visits Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.

The “nation’s favourite rock ‘n’ roll variety show” That’ll Be The Day returns to Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.

The UK’s “favourite dance couple” Anton and Erin take their show That’s Entertainment to the Victoria Hall, Stoke on Wednesday.

The Merry Opera Company presents Rossini’s great masterpiece of comic opera The Barber of Seville at Lichfield Garrick on Thursday.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole promises A Night to Remember with “ballroom magic and Latin excitement” at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Thursday.

Blackeyed Theatre tours John Godber’s Teechers to Lincoln Performing Arts Centre on Thursday and the Palace Theatre, Newark, Nottinghamshire on Friday.

For the fourth time Nottingham Playhouse stages Forever Young, by Erik Gedeon and adapted by Giles Croft and Stefan Bednarczyk from Thursday until Saturday 7 February.

Buxton Opera House hosts for the ninth year running a “spectacular showcase” of young dance talent from Derbyshire in Peak Dance Festival on Friday.

One man, one woman and 14 different characters, each with a story to tell and secrets to reveal, are called to the bar of a northern pub in Jim Cartwright’s Two at Lichfield Garrick on Friday and Saturday.

Birmingham Symphony Hall stages An Evening of Music and Dance with Birmingham Royal Ballet, featuring excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Prokofiev’s Cinderella, on Saturday.

Mary Norton’s family adventure The Borrowers continues at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre until Saturday.

Jane McDonald, Duncan James, Chris Gascoyne, Gary Milton, Paul Zerdin and Matt Slack continue in “Britain’s most popular pantomime” Jack and the Beanstalk at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Christmas Truce continues until Saturday, and Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (Much Ado About Nothing) both continue until 14 March; in the Swan Theatre David Troughton heads the cast of Thomas Dekker’s Jacobean comedy The Shoemaker's Holiday which runs until Saturday 7 March while the world première of Tom Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer, about J Robert Oppenheimer, known as “the father of the atom bomb”, also continues until 7 March.

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