Chapterhouse Productions has four of its open-air shows in the Midlands this week: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream plays Alton Castle, Alton, Staffordshire on Monday at 4PM; Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles is at Donington Le Heath Manor House near Coalville, Leicestershire on Thursday; Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice tours to Belton House near Grantham, Lincolnshire on Friday; and Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is in the company’s home city at the Old Palace, Minster Yard, Lincoln on Sunday.
Murder is on the menu at Buxton Opera House, with Murder One presenting a promenade production, Reconstructing Murder, on Monday and ID Plays staging Emlyn Williams’s A Murder Has Been Arranged from Thursday until Saturday.
Heartbreak Productions takes Lewis Carroll’s Alice—An Extraordinary Adventure into the open air at the Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire on Friday.
Marti Pellow continues in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Time Rice’s musical Evita at Wolverhampton Grand until Saturday.
Uncle Eric, Madge and the gang continue in Uncle Eric in Downtown Abbey at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme 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.