Midlands productions

Published: 23 April 2017
Reporter: Steve Orme

James Bolam and Anne Reid in Fracked! Or: Please Don’t Use the F-Word at Malvern Theatres
Henry Metcalfe (Jacob) and Joe McElderry (Joseph) in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham
Christian Edwards in the title role of Cyrano at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham Credit: Nobby Clark

Alistair Beaton’s latest comedy Fracked! Or: Please Don’t Use the F-Word featuring Anne Reid and James Bolam digs in at Malvern Theatres from Monday until Saturday.

Joe McElderry plays Joseph in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.

Cyrano, Deborah McAndrew’s adaptation for Northern Broadsides of Edmond Rostand’s comedy Cyrano de Bergerac, visits the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.

The National Theatre’s response to the Referendum result My Country: A Work in Progress looks for votes at Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Saturday.

Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre stages Noel Coward’s Private Lives from Tuesday until Saturday.

Lichfield Garrick Youth Theatre stages Legally Blonde the Musical at the Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.

Northern Ballet presents Goldilocks and the Three Bears at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.

Performing arts students at Vision West Nottinghamshire College join forces with Mansfield Palace Theatre to stage a new play, Malice by Matt Lamb, which focuses on six teenage gang members, at the College’s Create Theatre, Mansfield on Wednesday and Thursday.

Written and performed by jazz musician and MC Soweto Kinch, The Legend of Mike Smith, which tells the story of a young artist on a quest to find a mythical golden microphone, tours to the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.

Michael Mears portrays conscientious objectors, army generals, Prime Ministers, mathematicians and many more in a “compelling, shocking and inspiring story” of the men who said “no” to war in This Evil Thing in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Janette Manrara and Aljaz Skorjanec celebrate the talent of Fred Astaire in Remembering Fred at Derngate, Northampton on Friday.

The Young REP takes over the main stage at Birmingham REP with a new production of E R Braithwaite’s To Sir, With Love from Friday until Tuesday 16 May.

Birmingham Royal Ballet's orchestra, the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, and music director Koen Kessels are joined by dancers from the company for An Evening of Music and Dance with Birmingham Royal Ballet, compèred by its director David Bintley, at Birmingham Symphony Hall on Saturday.

Based on The Who’s 1969 concept album, Pete Townshend’s Tommy, a New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and Ramps on the Moon co-production, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.

The tour of Mamma Mia! continues at the Regent Theatre, Stoke until Saturday.

Lewis Smallman from West Bromwich shares the role of Billy in Billy Elliot the Musical which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Antony and Cleopatra continues until Thursday 7 September and Julius Caesar until Saturday 9 September while in the Swan Theatre Richard Bean’s new comedy The Hypocrite featuring Caroline Quentin and Mark Addy continues until Saturday 29 April.

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