Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre has announced its spring season which includes productions of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist and three plays as part of a Spanish Golden Age Season.
Opening the season in the B2 auditorium is the Belgrade’s own production of The Alchemist from 1 until 22 February.
Alongside Theatre Royal, Bath and London’s Arcola Theatre, the Belgrade is producing three classic plays as part of a Spanish Golden Age Season.
After opening in Bath, A Lady of Little Sense, Don Gil of the Green Breeches and Punishment Without Revenge will run in B2 from 26 March until 19 April.
A Lady of Little Sense and Punishment Without Revenge are directed by Coventry-born director Laurence Boswell, who began his career as an actor at the Belgrade’s Youth Theatre.
Opening the season on the main stage is the musical Blood Brothers featuring Maureen Nolan which returns to the Belgrade for a two-week run from 27 January until 8 February.
From 11 until 15 February, all-male Shakespeare company Propeller returns to Coventry with The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Birmingham Stage Company will also be back with its Horrible Histories series, this time performing Barmy Britain from 18 until 22 February.
Les Dennis makes his way to the main stage from 24 February until 1 March in The Perfect Murder by crime thriller novelist Peter James.
This will be followed by the farce See How They Run, featuring Warwick Davis and his Reduced Height Theatre Company, from 3 until 8 March.
The main stage will play host to a series of music and dance shows, starting with Buddy—The Buddy Holly Story on 10 and 11 March. The Michael Jackson tribute show The King of Pop visits the Belgrade on 12 March, with Moscow Ballet La Classique performing Giselle and Swan Lake from 13 until 15 March.
New comedy-horror The Mummy with Susie Amy, Jason Durr and Dennis Lill opens on the main stage from 21 to 29 March.
Birmingham Stage Company returns with the children’s story Tom’s Midnight Garden from 15 to 19 April which will be followed by Brassed Off from 23 until 26 April.
From 6 until 10 May, Robert Powell will star as Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie’s first crime caper written for the stage, Black Coffee.
American poet, playwright and film-maker Sam Shepard takes his roadshow Chorale to the Belgrade featuring three plays, The Holy Ghostly, The War in Heaven and The Animal (You), from 10 until 17 May.
Alistair McGowan and Rula Lenska star in the centenary year production of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion from 12 until 17 May.
A new version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s family adventure story Kidnapped will wash up on the main stage from 27 until 31 May and will be followed by Bill Kenwright’s new production of Fame the Musical from 2 until 7 June.
London Classic Theatre takes its production of Entertaining Mr Sloane to the Belgrade from 3 until 5 July and Scooby Doo is brought to life in Scooby Doo: The Mystery of the Pyramid from 22 until 24 July.