Midlands productions

Published: 29 January 2017
Reporter: Steve Orme

Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage at the Belgrade, Coventry
Karen Mann, Alexandra Burke and Jon Robyns in Sister Act at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham
The Seven Acts of Mercy in The Swan Theatre, Stratford Credit: Ellie Kurttz

Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hills’s The Woman in Black, featuring Stuart Fox and Joseph Chance, tours to Curve, Leicester from Monday until Saturday.

Audiences at the Belgrade, Coventry will have the time of their lives when Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage visits from Monday until Saturday.

St Petersburg Ballet Theatre is at Derngate, Northampton with a Tchaikovsky double bill, Swan Lake from Monday until Wednesday and Sleeping Beauty from Thursday until Saturday.

Alexandra Burke appears in Craig Revel Horwood’s new production of the musical comedy Sister Act at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday 11 February.

The Original Theatre Company tours Torben Betts’s comedy Invincible to Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

Tabs Productions plays “the ultimate game of cat and mouse” in Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from Tuesday until Saturday.

Derby-based Oddsocks uses “music, muppetry, laughter and excitement” in The Jungle Book at the city’s Guildhall Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

Seen by more than 22 million people since it opened in London's West End in 1989, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story by Alan Janes rocks Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.

Over the past year, playwright Vanessa Oakes and textile artist Julia O’Connell have spent time researching and talking to people connected with Coventry’s London Road cemetery and the result is a work in progress, The Sleeping Place, which will be presented at the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry on Wednesday.

London Classic Theatre’s new tour of Terry Johnson’s Hysteria, featuring John Dorney (Salvador Dali), Ged McKenna (Sigmund Freud), Summer Strallen (Jessica) and Moray Treadwell (Dr Abraham Yahuda), opens at Malvern Theatres from Wednesday until Saturday.

A male photographer takes a photograph of a female celebrity who wants to be reinvented in Action Hero’s Wrecking Ball in The Door at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday.

Louise is packing up her depression into boxes but needs to sift through the debris to make things finally fit in Louise White’s Debris in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.

Talking Scarlet presents the world premiere of the fourth Peter Gordon play featuring Inspector Pratt, Dong Ding Murder Me on High! at Buxton Opera House from Friday until Sunday.

A play exploring the global and personal implications of India’s surrogacy industry, Made in India continues at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre until Saturday.

The “nation’s favourite ballroom couple” Anton du Beke and Erin Boag take their new show Swing Time to the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Sunday.

The Russian State Ballet of Siberia makes its annual visit to Wolverhampton Grand to present Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker on Sunday, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake on Monday 6 February and Coppelia by Delibes on Tuesday 7 February.

The UK première of a “razor-sharp new comedy” What’s in a Name?, adapted and directed by Jeremy Sams from the award-winning French play and movie Le Prenom by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 11 February (press night Tuesday 31 January) while in the Studio REP associate director Alexander Zeldin and his company consider the strains on families who are placed in temporary accommodation in Love which continues until Saturday 11 February.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Swan Theatre Blanche McIntyre directs The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, which continues until Tuesday 7 February, the world première of Anders Lustgarten’s play The Seven Acts of Mercy continues until Friday 10 February and Aphra Behn’s The Rover continues until Saturday 11 February.

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