Six aspiring authors meet on a winter’s evening to discuss their work in Alan Ayckbourn’s Improbable Fiction, a Michael Friend Productions presentation at Buxton Opera House on Monday and Tuesday.
Two of Chapterhouse Theatre Company’s productions end their open-air tours in the Midlands this week: Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows is at Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire on Friday, Rutland Water Park, Whitwell, Oakham, Rutland on Saturday and The Old Palace, Minster Yard, Lincoln on Sunday; and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is at Ashby Castle, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire on Saturday.
London Classic Theatre takes Harold Pinter’s Betrayal to Derby Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.
The team behind the touring show Beyond The Barricade has put together a new show Access All Arias featuring Helen Hobson, Sarah Ryan and Sarah Eyden which visits Buxton Opera House on Sunday.
A new musical, The Prodigals: A Man Had Two Sons, written by Joe Harmston and Ray Goudie, continues at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre until Saturday 14 September.
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 while Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus and Mark Ravenhill’s response to Voltaire’s Candide both continue until 26 October (Candide press night Thursday 5 September).