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Danielle Bird as Rajnhildre the Goblin Queen and Rhiannon Skerritt as Bella

Beauty and the Beast

Adapted by Theresa Heskins from the original novel by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbo...

New Vic Theatre Company

New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme

26 November 2021–29 January 2022

Rufus Hound (Tom), Dominic Rowan (Jerry) Preeya Kalidas (Margo) and Sally Tatum (Barbara)

The Good Life

Jeremy Sams

Festival Theatre, Malvern

16 November–4 December 2021

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

Charles Dickens, adapted by Mark Gatiss

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company

Nottingham Playhouse

29 October–20 November 2021

Sunny Side Up!

John Godber

The John Godber Company and Theatre Royal Wakefield

New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme

26–30 October 2021

The Magician's Elephant

Nancy Harris and Marc Teitler

Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

25 October 2021–1 January 2022

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

Bronté Barbé (Mary Western) and Dominic Andersen (Tom Jones)

What's New Pussycat?

Joe DiPietro

Birmingham REP in association with Flody Suarez and Kilimanjaro Theatricals

Birmingham REP

8 October–14 November 2021

News

RSC’s tribute to “hugely admired” Sher

5 December 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company has paid tribute to Sir Antony Sher, honorary associate artist and husband of artistic director Gregory Doran, who has died from cancer.

What's on in the Midlands

4 December 2021

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 6 December.

Buxton Fringe 2022 open for entries

4 December 2021

Entries are now open for the 2022 Buxton Fringe and artists or companies entering by the end of February will be charged £50.

Sean Foley: the REP will stage shows that “innovate, investigate and celebrate”

Birmingham REP to stage “ambitious” season

3 December 2021

Birmingham REP artistic director Sean Foley has announced a new collection of work with six world premières and “continues Foley’s aim of bringing artistically ambitious popular theatre”.

Young people performing as part of a Hippodrome Education Network project

Hippodrome takes on Big Give challenge

29 November 2021

Birmingham Hippodrome wants to raise £20,000 as part of the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2021 to give 5,000 young people the opportunity to take part in weekly creative activities.

Jason Donovan and Jac Yarrow in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Donovan returns to Birmingham after panto debut

27 November 2021

Jason Donovan will return to Birmingham Hippodrome as the Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat after his panto debut in Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

What's on in the Midlands

27 November 2021

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 29 November.

Major new funding for Birmingham festival

25 November 2021

An in-house team at the Birmingham 2022 Festival, part of the Commonwealth Games, has raised £12 million to add to funding from Arts Council England and the National Lottery.

Children’s arts festival sparks back into life

25 November 2021

The “best children’s arts festival in the world”, the Spark Festival, will be staged live and online for a week in Leicester in February 2022.

New Perspectives delivers with new postcard drama

25 November 2021

East Midlands based theatre company New Perspectives is to rekindle its postcard drama series with Fair Play, a new six-part mystery based on Nottingham’s famous Goose Fair.

Maryland - script-in-hand readings in Nottingham and London

Two perspectives on Maryland

21 November 2021

Script-in-hand readings of Lucy Kirkwood’s response to the murders of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa, Maryland, take place in London and Nottingham.

BRB tours Acosta's Don Quixote

21 November 2021

For spring 2022, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Director Carlos Acosta will revive Cervantes’ famous knight featuring music by Ludwig Minkus.

Ralph Davis, Michael Balogun and Giles Terera in Blue / Orange at Royal and Derngate, Northampton

What's on in the Midlands

20 November 2021

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 22 November.

“Vital funding”: Nottingham’s Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall

Nottingham venue’s £682,000 recovery fund boost

19 November 2021

Nottingham’s Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall has been awarded £682,000 by Arts Council England in the third round of support from the government’s culture recovery fund.

Bringing sunshine: The Play What I Wrote

REP discounts tickets for key workers for Christmas show

19 November 2021

Birmingham REP has announced that it will be offering discounted tickets to key workers to see the comedy The Play What I Wrote.

James to reach Peake as Widow Twankey in Aladdin

17 November 2021

James Peake, winner of best dame in the 2020 Great British Pantomime Awards, is to play Widow Twankey in Loughborough Town Hall’s 2021 panto Aladdin.

Sondheim’s Gypsy brings opera back to Buxton

17 November 2021

Everything is coming up roses for Buxton Opera House and Buxton International Festival who are to present their second joint production, the musical Gypsy.

Forgotten Key Workers: presented by Lightpost and Birmingham REP as part of the BEDLAM Arts and Mental Health Festival

BEDLAM festival aims to reduce mental health stigma

14 November 2021

The fifth BEDLAM Arts and Mental Health Festival to be held in Birmingham will feature a diverse programme including live theatre and dance performances.

What's on in the Midlands

14 November 2021

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 15 November.

Interactive experience: Sherlock in Homes: Murder at the Games

Northampton venue hosts Sherlock murder mystery

14 November 2021

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate is to present an online interactive theatrical experience at Christmas 2021, Sherlock in Homes: Murder at the Games.

Apprenticeship appeal: Curve theatre, Leicester

Curve appeal supports young theatre technicians

12 November 2021

Leicester's Curve has started a three-week fundraising appeal to support the development of young theatre technicians as part of the Andy Nairn Bursaries in Technical Theatre.

Derby conference unites cultural and care sectors

7 November 2021

Chief executive of Arts Council England Darren Henley will be one of the speakers at the Culture Cares conference at Derby Theatre in November 2021.

What's on in the Midlands

7 November 2021

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 8 November.