Midlands productions

Published: 31 December 2017
Reporter: Steve Orme

Peter Pan at Derby Theatre Credit: Robert Day
Cinderella at Nottingham Playhouse Credit: Robert Day
Treasure Island at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Credit: Andrew Billington

Mike Kenny’s adaptation of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday.

Jersey Boys, the story of Frank Valli and the Four Seasons, continues at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday.

Aladdin continues at Lichfield Garrick until Saturday, while in the Studio, New Old Friends’ alternative Christmas comedy Crimes on the Christmas Express also continues until Saturday.

Coventry’s Albany Theatre continues to play host to Mike Kenny’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, featuring Coventry actor Paul Nolan as Mole, until Saturday.

Artistic director Nikolai Foster directs a new production of Scrooge the Musical which continues at Curve, Leicester until Sunday, while in the Studio, Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine continues until Saturday 20 January.

Jonny Wilkes and Christian Patterson team up for Aladdin at Stoke’s Regent Theatre which continues until Sunday.

The Gloucestershire panto Dick Whittington and His Cat continues at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham until Sunday.

The rock ‘n’ roll panto Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood continues at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre until Sunday.

Mark Little plays Fleshcreep and Bradley Judge is Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk, which continues at Mansfield Palace Theatre until Sunday.

Debbie Isitt’s adaptation of Dodie Smith’s The Hundred and One Dalmatians continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 13 January.

Iain Lauchlan takes to the Coventry Belgrade stage for his 23rd panto Cinderella, which continues until Saturday 13 January.

Little Angel Theatre’s adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’s The Singing Mermaid continues in the Underground Studio at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday 13 January.

Nottingham native Sherrie Hewson leads the cast of Beauty and the Beast at the city’s Theatre Royal, which continues until Sunday 14 January.

Gareth Gates plays Jack, Lisa Riley becomes the Spirit of the Beans, Ian Adams is Dame Trot, Adam C Booth is Simple Simon and Graham Cole plays Fleshcreep in Jack and the Beanstalk at Wolverhampton Grand which continues until Sunday 14 January.

Sleeping Beauty, the 2017 panto at The Theatre, Chipping Norton, continues until Sunday 14 January.

Kenneth Alan Taylor writes and directs Cinderella which continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 20 January while Town Mouse and Country Mouse, Robin Kingsland’s adaptation of Aesop’s fable, continues in the Neville Studio until Saturday 6 January.

A new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 27 January.

Beverley Knight is the Fairy Godmother, Strictly Come Dancing finalist Danny Mac becomes Prince Charming, Matt Slack plays Buttons and Suzanne Shaw takes the lead role in Cinderella at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 28 January while, in the Patrick Centre, Tall Stories’ The Snow Dragon continues until Sunday 7 January.

Phil Davis plays Ebenezer Scrooge in David Edgar’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol which continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford until 4 February; Adrian Edmondson makes his RSC debut as Malvolio and Kara Tointon plays Olivia in Twelfth Night which continues until 24 February; and in the Swan Theatre, Mike Poulton’s adaptation of The Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris, Imperium Part I: Conspirator and Imperium Part II: Dictator, continue until Saturday 10 February.

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