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Tell Me On a Sunday

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Don Black

Jamie Wilson, Gavin Kalin and Kevin McCollum

Curve Theatre, Leicester

12–16 October 2021

The Midnight Bell

Devised and directed by Matthew Bourne, choreography by Matthew Bourne and Co...

New Adventures

Curve Theatre, Leicester

11–16 October 2021

Extra Time

Jamie Thrasivoulou

Derby Theatre

9–17 October 2021

Home/Killer Pig

Micaela Taylor/Sharon Eyal

Rambert 2

Curve Theatre, Leicester

5–7 October 2021

Hairspray The Broadway Musical

Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Sc...

Mark Goucher and Matthew Gale

Curve Theatre, Leicester

4–9 October 2021

The Cat and the Canary

John Willard, adapted by Carl Grose

The Classic Thriller Theatre Company

Derby Theatre

7–11 September 2021

East Is East

Ayub Khan Din

The Birmingham Repertory Theatre and National Theatre

Birmingham REP

3–25 September 2021

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

Curve, English Touring Theatre and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse

Curve Theatre, Leicester

3–18 September 2021

The Fancy Man

Mike Stott

Tabs Productions

Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield

24–28 August 2021

News

BRB World Ballet Day programme

19 October 2021

Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced its programme for this year’s #WorldBalletDay 2021 on 19 October.

“Some of the greatest pop songs ever written”: Beautiful

New Carole King musical tour to start in Leicester

16 October 2021

A new UK tour of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy Award-winning Beautiful—The Carole King Musical will open at Leicester’s Curve in February 2022.

The Comedy of Errors at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham

What's on in the Midlands

16 October 2021

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 18 October.

Belgrade announces cast for Beauty of a panto

16 October 2021

Ruby Eva and Sion Lloyd will play the title roles in the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry 2021 panto Beauty and the Beast.

Birmingham REP helps with course for deaf students

14 October 2021

Birmingham REP has helped to establish the country’s first BTEC performing arts qualification specifically for deaf students.

RSC gets award to carry out “crucial” research

14 October 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company has become the first performing arts organisation to receive an award which will help it to carry out “crucial” research.

Dance company creates dyslexia piece for children

10 October 2021

A Leicester-based dance company is to collaborate with a children’s art organisation and the British Dyslexia Association on a piece of work for children and their families.

“The work starts now”: Adam Buss, interim director of Derby’s City of Culture bid

Derby makes long-list for UK City of Culture 2025

9 October 2021

Derby has made the long-list to be UK City of Culture in 2025 but, according to the interim director of the city’s bid, “this is just the beginning”.

Norman Pace (Wilbur) and Brenda Edwards (Motormouth Maybelle) in Hairspray at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham

What's on in the Midlands

9 October 2021

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 11 October.

Oddsocks working on its new base, a disused chapel at Lea

Oddsocks receives bursary towards its new base

8 October 2021

A Derbyshire-based theatre company has been awarded £2,500 and become the first recipient of a bursary set up to remember one of the county’s top folk musicians.

Making Christmas special: Royal and Derngate’s Unforgettable Gift appeal

Unforgettable: Christmas appeal back in Northampton

7 October 2021

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate is reintroducing its Unforgettable Gift appeal to give hundreds of tickets for its Christmas shows to disadvantaged children and young people.

Campbell and Elliot to lead Coventry’s Belgrade

6 October 2021

Corey Campbell has been appointed creative director and Laura Elliot chief executive of Coventry’s Belgrade as the theatre reduces its leadership team.

“In charge of her own destiny”: Tarzanna

Gramophones tour female role model show

3 October 2021

The Gramophones Theatre Company is to tour Tarzanna, a “jungle aerial adventure for families that encourages children to get into nature and empowers girls to be wild and playful”.

Premières in Coventry Belgrade spring season

3 October 2021

Two world premières and a number of touring productions make up the spring 2022 season at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.

Niall Ransome and Jake Ferretti in The Hound of the Baskervilles at Malvern Theatres

What's on in the Midlands

2 October 2021

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 4 October.

Some of the cast of The Barber of Seville

WNO returns to Birmingham with two major productions

1 October 2021

Welsh National Opera returns to Birmingham Hippodrome with Giles Havergal’s 1986 production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville and a new version of Puccini's Madam Butterfly.

New Vic appoints three associate artists

1 October 2021

Khaos Theatre, Quick Duck and playwright James Morton have become associate artists at the New Vic, the Newcastle-under-Lyme theatre-in-the-round.

Themen to leave Coventry’s Belgrade

1 October 2021

Justine Themen, the Belgrade Theatre’s deputy artistic director who has been working on the Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 programme, will leave the theatre in May 2022 when the culture year draws to a close.

Christopher Godwin will play the narrator

Full cast revealed for Gatiss’s A Christmas Carol

1 October 2021

The full cast has been revealed for Mark Gatiss’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol which will open at Nottingham Playhouse before transferring to London’s Alexandra Palace.

Derby Theatre: on the move?

1 October 2021

Politicians and the University of Derby are exploring options to relocate Derby Theatre into a new, purpose-built building on the city’s Market Place—the site of the former Assembly Rooms.

Albany Theatre asks Killer Question in new season

25 September 2021

Drama features strongly in the autumn and winter season at Coventry’s Albany Theatre which will include two Christmas productions.

What's on in the Midlands

25 September 2021

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 27 September.

Another chapter as A Christmas Carol tours again

24 September 2021

Lincoln-based Chapterhouse Theatre Company is to continue its festive tradition of touring Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to theatres, castles and cathedrals across the UK in November and December 2021.

Sanctuary award for Nottingham Playhouse

24 September 2021

Nottingham Playhouse has been given a Theatre of Sanctuary award which recognises that it has become a “welcoming, safe and enjoyable space” for refugees and asylum seekers.

Homelessness festival for Coventry

24 September 2021

A week-long festival co-produced by people who have lived experience of homelessness is to take place in various venues across Coventry.

Altered Skin will present work-in-progress Fatherhood at the First Bite Festival

Lunchtime works-in-progress in online festival

24 September 2021

Ten new work-in-progress shows by companies and artists based in the Midlands will have their first outing at the free, online First Bite festival.

Features

Curve season launch

23 May 2021

After 430 days, 'dark', Curve Theatre, Leicester has launched its new season at a special event.