Midlands productions

Published: 17 August 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Nathan Smith as the Mad Hatter in Alice - An Extraordinary Adventure at Wightwick Manor, near Wolverhampton on Tuesday
London Contemporary Theatre's Around the World in Eighty Days at Buxton on Friday
Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham on Friday and Saturday

The Kings Players performs Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors at Denby Pottery, Derbyshire at 2PM on Monday.

The final play in the Classic Thriller Season at Nottingham ‘s Theatre Royal is Murderer by Anthony Shaffer which runs from Monday until Saturday.

Marti Pellow appears in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Time Rice’s musical Evita which tours to Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday, 31 August.

Heartbreak Productions stages an open-air production of Dani Carbery’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice – An Extraordinary Adventure at Wightwick Manor, near Wolverhampton on Tuesday.

The New Alexandra Theatre Stage Experience “which offers the best and brightest young talent from across the West Midlands the chance to work with a professional production team” presents Annie at the New Alexandra from Wednesday until Saturday.

London Contemporary Theatre visits Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre with Shakespeare’s As You Like It on Thursday and Around the World in Eighty Days on Friday.

Chapterhouse has two productions at open-air venues in Nottingham, with Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles at Wollaton Hall on Friday and Saturday, and Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows at Nottingham Castle on Sunday and Monday.

Based on the 1990s Oscar-winning film, Ghost the Musical continues at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham until Saturday.

An all-male cast continues to perform Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday.

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 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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