Rachael Wooding plays Alice, Wendi Peters is the Queen of Hearts and Dave Willets is the White Rabbit in Wonderland, a musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass which tours to Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.
A community cast of 70, including some who will take to the stage for the first time, perform a musical version of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream called The Dreaming at Lichfield Garrick from Monday until Saturday.
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, Chapterhouse Theatre Company stages Laura Turner’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Wednesday.
Heartbreak Productions is on the road with Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey at Tuckwell Amphitheatre, Dean Close School, Shelburne Road, Cheltenham on Thursday, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew at Warley Woods, The Pavilion, Lightwoods Hill, Smethwick, West Midlands, also on Thursday, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett at Ryton Pools, Bubbenhall, Coventry on Friday and Billionaire Boy by David Walliams at Nottingham Castle, also on Friday.
Jenny Wren Productions presents Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, adapted by Elise Heaven and Jenny Wicks, in the open air at Glenfall House, Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire on Thursday, Priory Park, Malvern, Worcestershire on Friday and Cathedral of the Forest, Newland, Forest of Dean on Sunday.
Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre performs its own version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden from Saturday until Saturday 12 August.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Titus Andronicus continues until Saturday 2 September, Antony and Cleopatra until Thursday 7 September and Julius Caesar until Saturday 9 September; in the Swan Theatre, artistic director Gregory Doran revives his version of Shakespeare’s poem Venus and Adonis using narration, music and puppetry, which continues until Friday 4 August, 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 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.
Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Miss Saigon continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 23 September.