Midlands productions

Published: 11 June 2017
Reporter: Steve Orme

A Judgement in Stone at Derby Theatre
Natasha J Barnes as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl the Musical in the Theatre Royal, Nottingham Credit: Manuel Harlan
Oddsocks’ Romeo and Juliet at Markeaton Park, Derby

Andrew Lancel, Sophie Ward, Mark Wynter, Shirley Anne Field, Antony Costa and Ben Nealon are among the cast of Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone at Derby Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Natasha J Barnes plays Fanny Brice and Darius Campbell is Nick Arnstein in Funny Girl the Musical at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

The Northampton Royal and Derngate production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, with Nicholas Woodeson taking the role of Willy Loman, completes its tour in Northampton on the Royal stage from Tuesday until Saturday.

The Leicester Curve and West Yorkshire Playhouse production of The Graduate featuring Catherine McCormack as Mrs Robinson and Jack Monaghan as Benjamin tours to Malvern Theatres from Tuesday until Saturday.

Joe McElderry plays Joseph in Bill Kenwright’s production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.

Gareth Gates and Maureen Nolan cut loose in Footloose the Musical at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.

Birmingham Royal Ballet presents Coppélia by Delibes at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.

Gabrielle Drake, Steve Dunachie, Sian Murray and Colin Prockter appear in Not Going Gentle, a “concert performance of prose, poetry and song exploring the most exciting part of life—from the time children leave home to the final curtain”, in the Studio at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on Wednesday.

Heartbreak Productions’ summer tour of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey starts at Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa on Wednesday and Thursday.

Derby-based Oddsocks Productions “breathe new life” into Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by giving it a Mods and Rockers twist in the Craft Village at Derby’s Markeaton Park from Wednesday until Friday.

Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London, a one-woman show about the wife of the president’s dangerous trip to wartime London in 1942 to visit US troops, written and performed by Alison Skilbeck, visits the Studio at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on Friday and Saturday.

Between the Two, marking the UK-India Year of Culture and based on director Daniel Tyler’s family experiences challenging the perception of where home is and where we belong, stops off at Lichfield Garrick’s Studio on Saturday.

The drama of theatre meets the thrill of football in Mohamed El Khatib’s Stadium, featuring real stories as told by Birmingham City, Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion fans, which continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.

Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arnold Bennett by staging a new adaptation of his novel Anna of the Five Towns which continues until Saturday.

Graeme of Thrones, an “original and unauthorised parody on the international phenomenon that is Game of Thrones”, takes audiences on a journey through the Seven Kingdoms at Derby Theatre on Sunday.

Kevin and Karen Clifton from the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing are touring the UK for the first time with their show Kevin and Karen Dance which waltzes into the Symphony Hall, Birmingham on Sunday.

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; in the Swan Theatre, Phil Porter’s new play Vice Versa (or the Decline and Fall of General Braggadocio at the hands of his canny servant Dexter and Terence the monkey) continues until Saturday 9 September; in the Swan Theatre Oscar Wilde’s lyrical one-act play Salomé, marking 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales, continues until Wednesday 6 September; and in The Other Place the Spring Mischief Festival, featuring Tom Morton-Smith’s one-act play The Earthworks and Matt Hartley and Kirsty Housley’s Myth, continues until Saturday 17 June.

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