Antony Costa, Lola Saunders and Liz Carter appear in Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran’s Save the Last Dance for Me at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
Adapted by Dominic Cooke from the young novel by Malorie Blackman, Noughts and Crosses, “a love story set in a society divided by racial prejudice and terrorism”, is performed by Nottingham Playhouse Youth Theatre on the Playhouse’s main stage on Saturday.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Gillian Bevan is the first woman to take on the role of British ruler Cymbeline which continues until Saturday 15 October and Antony Sher plays the title role in Gregory Doran’s production of King Lear which continues until Saturday 15 October (press night Thursday 1 September); in the Swan Theatre, Blanche McIntyre directs The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, which continues until Tuesday 7 February (press night Wednesday 24 August); and in the RSC’s new studio theatre The Other Place Making Mischief, a “festival of bold and thought-provoking new plays”, features Always Orange by Fraser Grace and Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier by Somalia Seaton which continue until Saturday (27 August).
The Abba musical Mamma Mia! continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 3 September.