Midlands productions

Published: 21 July 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Turn Back the Clock at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Monday
Richard Grieve as Bernadette, Jason Donovan as Tick and Graham Weaver as Felicia in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert – the Musical at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall from Monday until Saturday Credit: Paul Coltas
Formby at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Friday and Saturday

Cheryl Knight brings some of Joyce Grenfell’s songs and monologues to life in a revue called Turn Back the Clock at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Monday.

Derby-based company Oddsocks is in its home city to present Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors at Derby Theatre from Monday until Wednesday.

Jason Donovan takes the lead role in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert—the Musical which whips up a storm at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

Lisa Riley, Artem Chigvintsev, Natalie Lowe, Ian Waite and other participants from Strictly Come Dancing will be on stage in Strictly Confidential at De Montfort Hall, Leicester on Thursday.

Chapterhouse Theatre Company has two Jane Austen shows in the open air at Nottingham Castle this week, Sense and Sensibility on Thursday and Pride and Prejudice on Friday.

Madcap Productions tours its version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew to The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury on Thursday, Dudley Evolve on Friday and mac, Birmingham on Saturday.

Written and performed by Ewan Wardrop, Formby is a “one-man performance that’s a funny, touching look at George Formby’s rise from awkward stable boy to one of Britain’s biggest stars” at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Friday and Saturday.

Marie Jones's comedy Stones in his Pockets continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.

A new play about Richard III called R-3: Hunchback or Hero? continues in the Mayor’s Parlour at Leicester’s Guildhall until Sunday 4 August.

The touring production of Disney’s The Lion King continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 28 September.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre All’s Well That Ends Well continues until 26 September (press night Thursday 24 July) while Hamlet and As You Like It both continue until Saturday 28 September; in the Swan Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean comedy A Mad World My Masters continues until 25 October and Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus until 26 October.

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