Midlands productions

Published: 9 June 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Jacob Addley, Nicole Black and Donna Preston in Teechers which visits Derby and Mansfield Credit: Alex Harvey-Brown
Damien Williams in Being Tommy Cooper at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham on Wednesday
The Fantasist at Derby Theatre Studio on Saturday

Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 The Musical visits Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday.

Celebrating the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, New Jersey Nights walks like a man into Northampton Royal and Derngate from Monday until Saturday.

Noel Sullivan and Jason Donovan star in Priscilla Queen of the Desert—the Musical at Stoke’s Regent Theatre, with Sullivan in the role of Tick from Monday until Wednesday and Donovan taking over from Thursday until Saturday.

John Godber’s Teechers which has been given a new syllabus by Blackeyed Theatre educates audiences at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday and Mansfield Palace Theatre on Thursday.

Birmingham Stage Company brings to life Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach at Coventry’s Belgrade from Tuesday until Saturday.

Tom Green’s new play Being Tommy Cooper which features Damian Williams as Cooper stops off at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham on Wednesday.

In the year of Wagner’s bicentenary, Welsh National Opera performs the first fully-staged performance of Wagner Dream at Birmingham Hippodrome on Wednesday, a new production of Lohengrin on Thursday and Saturday and Puccini’s Madam Butterfly on Friday.

Lichfield Garrick hosts An Audience with Sir David Frost on Thursday.

Kaleidoscope Junior Theatre Company retells Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book “in an entirely original and thrilling way” at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre on Friday and Saturday.

A “stunning exploration of the glorious heights and murky depths of bipolar disorder”, Theatre Témoin’s The Fantasist visits the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.

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

Wolverhampton Grand continues to get into the spirit of Ghost the Musical until Saturday.

Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre continues to stage Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit until Saturday.

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

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Hamlet and As You Like It both continue in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Saturday 28 September while in the Swan Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean comedy A Mad World My Masters continues until 25 October (press night Thursday, 13 June) and revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus continues until 26 October.

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