Midlands productions

Published: 22 November 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

Michael Ball as Mack Sennett and Rebecca LaChance as Mabel Normand in Mack and Mabel at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham
Judy Cornwell (Miss Marple) and Diane Fletcher (Letitia Blacklock) in A Murder is Announced at Wolverhampton Grand
New Perspectives’ He Wore a Red Hat at St Helen’s Parish Hall, Stapleford, Thrumpton Village Hall and Aslockton Thomas Cranmer Centre

Michael Ball and Rebecca LaChance take to the Nottingham Theatre Royal stage in Mack and Mabel from Monday until Saturday.

Judy Cornwell, who played Daisy in the BBC series Keeping Up Appearances, becomes Miss Marple in Middle Ground Theatre Company’s new production of Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.

Maxine Peake’s play Beryl, which celebrates the life of cycling legend Beryl Burton, races into the Studio at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.

The Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls tours to the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Tuesday until Saturday 5 December.

LA actor Miles Allen “takes audiences on a rip-roaring ride through one of the greatest television shows ever made” in One Man Breaking Bad – The Unauthorised Parody at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Wednesday and Buxton Opera House on Thursday.

An “unpredictable and riotous performance that unpicks what it is to be in an argument, and how we win and lose while our trousers are down”, Dog Kennel Hill Project’s Choreography of an Argument Round a Table makes a point in the Helen Martin Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday and Thursday.

Musical theatre students from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama stage Pentecost by David Edgar at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Thursday and Friday.

Strictly Balti “takes a humorous look at what it means to be British from someone who had to learn the hard way” in The Door at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday.

East Midlands touring company New Perspectives tours its Christmas show, Jack McNamara’s He Wore a Red Hat, to Nottinghamshire venues St Helen’s Parish Hall, Stapleford on Thursday, Thrumpton Village Hall on Friday and Aslockton Thomas Cranmer Centre on Saturday.

Tall Stories Theatre Company brings Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s award-winning The Gruffalo’s Child to life at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Thursday until Sunday 3 January.

Sir Peter Wright’s production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker returns to Birmingham Hippodrome from Friday until Sunday 13 December.

Annie Siddons performs her “magical, dark, tender, and funny storytelling show about two brothers who escape from a cellar”, Raymondo, in Derby Theatre Studio on Saturday.

The “UK’s most successful rock ‘n’ roll variety show” That’ll Be The Day returns to Derngate, Northampton with its Christmas show on Saturday.

Opera and Ballet International presents an Ellen Kent production, Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.

Scott Ritchie and Birmingham Ormiston Academy continue to stage Treasure Island at the Old Rep, Birmingham until Sunday 3 January (press night Tuesday 24 November).

The Theatre Chipping Norton ventures into Sherwood Forest with a new version of Robin Hood which continues until Sunday 10 January.

Birmingham REP is off to Narnia with an adaptation of C S Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe which continues until Saturday 16 January.

A cast of 13 actor-musicians and 24 young performers continue in a new production of Robin Hood and Marian at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 30 January.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Wendy and Peter Pan continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Sunday 31 January (press night Wednesday 25 November) while in the Swan Congreve’s Love for Love continues until Friday 22 January and plays in repertoire with Helen Edmundson's new play Queen Anne which continues until Saturday 23 January (press night Thursday 26 November).

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