Midlands productions

Published: 14 September 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Filter presents Twelfth Night in the Studio at Leicester's Curve from Monday until Saturday
Dreamboats and Petticoats visits Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday
Paul Michael Glaser in Fiddler on the Roof at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Tuesday until Saturday

Filter Theatre Company “brings an explosive new take” to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in the Studio at Curve, Leicester from Monday until Saturday.

Mark Wynter stars in “the UK’s favourite rock ‘n’ roll musical” Dreamboats and Petticoats, which visits Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Paul Michael Glaser who played Starsky in the 1970s’ TV series Starsky and Hutch takes the role of Tevye in the touring production of Fiddler on the Roof, directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, which visits Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Tuesday until Saturday.

London Classic Theatre tours Harold Pinter’s Betrayal to Buxton Opera House on Friday and Saturday.

Claire Spratt’s comedy about women who try to emulate Anthea Turner, Just Like Anthea, will be staged by Planet Rabbit Productions in the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio Theatre, Buxton on Friday and Saturday.

Dame Harriet Walter guests as the Voice of the Book when The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show Live returns to Derngate, Northampton on Saturday.

Alan Bennett’s latest play People continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.

An Asian-infused adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre until Saturday.

Headlong’s tour of George Orwell’s 1984 continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday, 28 September.

The world première of the stage version of To Sir, With Love, based on E R Braithwaite’s autobiography and adapted by Ayub Khan Din, continues at Northampton Royal until Saturday 28 September.

The first offering in Birmingham REP’s newest auditorium The Studio, a staged performance of jazz and hip-hop artist Soweto Kinch’s album The Legend of Mike Smith, continues until Saturday 28 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.

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