Midlands productions

Published: 26 May 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Go Back For Murder at Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday
Entertaining Angels visits South Holland Centre, Lincolnshire on Thursday and Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Saturday
Uncle Ben - The Wedding at The Drum, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday

Karl Howman, Bruno Langley, Graham Seed, Steven France, Jemma Walker and Clare Wilkie try not to get caught in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.

Krazy Kat Theatre Company takes its Japanese bunraku puppet-style theatre show The Waving Cat of Japan, performed by Kinny Gardner, Jim Fish and Tinca Leahy, which is suitable for deaf and hearing children aged three to seven, to The Hive, Shrewsbury, on Tuesday; The SPARK Festival at Embrace Arts, Leicester on Wednesday; Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Thursday; and the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Friday.

Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters tours to Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

The Agatha Christie Theatre Company visits Stoke’s Regent Theatre with Go Back for Murder from Tuesday until Saturday.

Written and directed by Jim Cartwright, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, featuring Beverley Callard, Ray Quinn and Jess Robinson, is at Coventry’s Belgrade from Tuesday until Saturday.

Propeller performs a double Shakespeare bill at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal, with Twelfth Night on Wednesday evening, Thursday afternoon and evening and Saturday evening along with The Taming of the Shrew on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon.

The première of East Midlands touring company New Perspectives’ Entertaining Angels by Brendan Murray, a "humorous and touching look at the role of the Church in contemporary village life and what it really means to be a Christian in the 21st century", visits South Holland Centre, Lincolnshire on Thursday and Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Saturday.

G.R.A.F.T. Entertainment presents Uncle Ben—The Wedding at The Drum, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday.

Creative Cow takes Brandon Thomas’s Charley’s Aunt to Buxton Opera House on Friday.

The “UK’s number one Buddy” Marc Robinson appears in Buddy Holly—a Legend Reborn at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday.

The stage version of the CBeebies television series Grandpa in My Pocket—Teamwork! continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Friday.

Tupele Dorgu plays Rita and Tom Roberts is Frank in Willy Russell’s Educating Rita in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick from Friday until Saturday 22 June.

Mark Benton, Lucy Benjamin and Marcus Collins get out the Hairspray when the musical continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.

Birmingham REP and Black Country Touring’s play Eat! continues in four caravans in a courtyard next to the Lighthouse Media Centre, The Chubb Buildings, Wolverhampton until Saturday.

Ballet Theatre UK visits Buxton Opera House with Alice in Wonderland on Sunday.

Alan Plater's play with music Blonde Bombshells of 1943, a co-production between Oldham Coliseum and Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic, continues at the Staffordshire theatre-in-the-round until Saturday 8 June.

Irish playwright Brian Friel’s award-winning Dancing at Lughnasa continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday 15 June.

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 revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus continues until 26 October.

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