Midlands productions

Published: 16 June 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Grandpa in my Pocket: Teamwork at Wolverhampton Grand from Wednesday until Saturday
Some Like it Hotter at Lichfield Garrick from Thursday until Saturday
The Festival Players’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream at mac, Birmingham on Saturday

Rachel Wagstaff’s adaptation of Sebatian Faulks’s Birdsong tours to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday.

David Alacey, Paul Drakeley and former EastEnders actor and BBC weatherman Des Coleman are joined by special guest Kenny Lynch in The Rat Pack is Back at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday.

New Youth Theatre discovers that Grease is the word at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Tom Green’s new play Being Tommy Cooper which features Damian Williams in the title role stops off at Stoke’s Regent Theatre on Wednesday.

Ballet Wales dances into the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme with A Midsummer Night’s Dream which features Mendelssohn’s music and choreography by the company’s artistic director Darius James on Wednesday.

The Nottingham Playhouse stage production of the children’s television series Grandpa in my Pocket: Teamwork is at Wolverhampton Grand from Wednesday until Saturday.

Birmingham Royal Ballet performs David Bintley’s production of Giselle at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday.

Leamington Spa-based Heartbreak Productions are on the road with Dani Carbert’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice—An Extraordinary Adventure at Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Wednesday and Brixworth Country Park, Northamptonshire on Saturday.

Fresh Glory Productions presents the Watermill Theatre production of Richard Hurford’s Some Like it Hotter, which features Sarah Applewood as Marilyn Monroe, Daniel Lloyd as Jack Lemmon and Paul Matania as Tony Curtis, at Lichfield Garrick from Thursday until Saturday.

A “light-hearted look at the highs and lows of being a parent, from the desire to have a baby through to the first day at school”, Ifs Buts and Babies visits Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Friday.

The Festival Players’ all-male company performs Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the outdoor arena at mac, Birmingham on Saturday.

Stoke’s Regent Theatre hosts An Evening of Burlesque on Saturday.

Headlong’s new version of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, presented in association with Derby Theatre and the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, continues at Derby Theatre 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.

George Bernard Shaw’s first play Widowers’ Houses continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday, 29 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 and revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus continues until 26 October.

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