Midlands productions

Published: 24 March 2019
Reporter: Steve Orme

Jane Asher and Simon Callow in A Song at Twilight at Malvern Theatres
Nottinghamshire-born Sherrie Hewson plays Joyce Temple-Savage in Benidorm Live at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham Credit: Paul Coltas
Billy Harris (Callum) and Heather Agyepong (Sephy) in Noughts and Crosses at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Credit: Robert Day

Simon Callow and Jane Asher lead the cast of Noël Coward’s A Song at Twilight at Malvern Theatres from Monday until Saturday.

Derren Litten has written a new set of Alicante escapades of his ITV comedy Benidorm Live which tours to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

Pepperland, choreographer Mark Morris’s tribute to the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, visits Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Sabrina Mahfouz’s adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s best-selling novel for young adults Noughts and Crosses can be seen at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.

Mischief Theatre’s The Comedy About a Bank Robbery pulls off its latest heist at Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Saturday.

The Northern Broadsides and New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing tours to Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

“Britain’s biggest theatre circus spectacular”, Zippos Circus’ Cirque Berserk!, swings into Northampton’s Derngate from Wednesday until Sunday while in the Royal, Tall Stories’ Room on the Broom, the adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s book, sweeps in from Thursday until Sunday and in the Underground Studio Royal and Derngate Young Company presents Brainstorm, a play created with, for and by the young people involved, on Thursday and Friday.

Shane Shambhu combines Indian dance and stand-up comedy to lead audiences on a revealing journey of his life in Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer in the Patrick Studio at Birmingham Hippodrome on Thursday.

The John Godber Company and Theatre Royal Wakefield stage Godber’s play Bouncers at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from Thursday until Saturday.

An “immersive re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet where the audience is guided through the story in contemporary language spoken by the narrator, the Friar” is told at the Albany Theatre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.

Vicki Michelle and the Hormonal Housewives “blast their witty way through a catalogue of women’s bits” at the Winding Wheel, Chesterfield on Friday.

The man behind the nose and the comedy behind the celebrated story of Cyrano de Bergerac is celebrated in the UK première of Edmond de Bergerac, featuring Freddie Fox, Henry Goodman, Josie Lawrence and Chizzy Akudulo, which continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.

A cast of four play more than 120 characters in the spy comedy drama The 39 Steps which continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.

David Almond’s adaption of his own modern novel Skellig, which follows the story of a 12-year-old boy whose younger sister is born prematurely, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Sunday 7 April.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, a gender-swapped version of The Taming of the Shrew, set in a 1590s matriarchal England in which women hold all the power, and Kimberley Sykes’s “fierce, exhilarating version” of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy As You Like It both continue in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Saturday 31 August.

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