Midlands productions

Published: 21 April 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Gary Mackay and Richard Ede in The 39 Steps at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Monday until Saturday Credit: Dan Tsantilis
End to End is in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday and Saturday
The Hired Man continues at Curve, Leicester until Saturday

Icarus Theatre Collective performs Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, which “follows a highly religious community with straight and gay teens exploring their furtive sexual awakenings”, at Buxton Opera House on Monday.

Olivier Award-winning comedy The 39 Steps stops off at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Monday until Saturday while in the B2 auditorium the Belgrade Theatre Community and Education Company presents its new production Journey to X by Nancy Harris from Wednesday until Saturday.

Save the Last Dance for Me will transport audiences at Stoke’s Regent Theatre “back to music’s golden era“ from Monday until Saturday.

Set in a late-night bar in downtown Buenos Aires and featuring “some of the finest tango dancers in the world”, Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace’s Midnight Tango steams into Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday.

Toyah Willcox, writer Julie Coombe and former Hollyoaks actress Sarah Jane Buckley are Hormonal Housewives at Derby’s Assembly Rooms on Tuesday.

Andy’s dad thinks Tortilla fought King Kong and Tiramisu played midfield for Brazil in Nick Lane’s Me and Me Dad, a Reform Theatre presentation at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Wednesday and Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Saturday.

English Touring Opera is at Buxton Opera House with Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte on Thursday, Simon Boccanegra by Verdi on Friday and Donizetti’s The Siege of Calais on Saturday.

“The nation’s favourite rock ‘n’ roll variety show” That’ll Be The Day visits Derby’s Assembly Rooms on Friday and Derngate, Northampton on Saturday.

Kaleidoscope Youth Theatre Company stages Mike Poulton’s adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur in Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre on Friday and Saturday.

The story of how three women made an 18-day, 874-mile journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats using as many varieties of transport as they could is told in End to End in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday and Saturday.

Melvyn Bragg and Howard Goodall’s musical The Hired Man continues in the studio at Leicester’s Curve until Saturday.

Chekhov’s rarely performed first play Platonov, which has been adapted, translated and directed by Helena Kaut-Howson and given the new title Sons Without Fathers, continues in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday 4 May.

Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, starring Earl Carpenter as the Phantom and Katie Hall as Christine, continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 4 May.

Northampton Royal and Derngate Youth Theatre performs A Mini Midsummer Night’s Dream on the Royal stage on Sunday while Gary Sefton’s production of A Midsummer Night's Dream which transposes the action to Edwardian England continues in the same venue until Saturday 11 May.

Theresa Heskins, artistic director of Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic, continues to stage her “biggest challenge yet”, Laura Eason’s adaptation of the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days, at the New Vic until Saturday 11 May.

Ceri Dupree returns to Curve in a new production of “Leicester’s favourite musical” Hot Stuff which continues until Sunday 26 May.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Hamlet and As You Like It both continue until Saturday 28 September while in the Swan Tanika Gupta’s The Empress which offers a glimpse into the world and character of Queen Victoria continues until Saturday 4 May.

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