Midlands productions

Published: 8 April 2012
Reporter: Steve Orme

Margi Clarke stars in Hormonal Housewives, Julie Coombe and John McIsaac's comedy about the trials and tribulations of the modern woman, at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday.

Fleur Darkin returns to mac, Birmingham with Blake Diptych Experience, a dance piece inspired by William Blake's boyhood visions, on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Joe Pasquale and Robert Powell search for a Doctor in the House at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.

Stefanie Powers, Richard Johnson and Elizabeth Carling appear in Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond at Lichfield Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.

Carina Gillespie is Sandy, Danny Bayne plays Danny and ice-skating legend Robin Cousins is Teen Angel in Grease at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.

David Essex discovers All the Fun of the Fair at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.

Paines Plough will be performing Wasted, a new play by Kate Tempest, at the Shop Front Theatre, City Arcade, Coventry on Wednesday.

Northampton Royal and Derngate's Youth Theatre will be re-inventing Bizet's opera Carmen as a contemporary rock musical in Carmen: Bizet Remixed in the theatre's Underground from Wednesday until Saturday.

Former principal performers from Les Miserables go Beyond the Barricade for the third successive year at Buxton Opera House on Thursday.

Inspired by "the world's most important neuroscientific case study", 2401 Objects by Analogue Productions visits Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.

Manifesto, the first show from Northamptonshire group Corby Young Actors—The Core at Corby Cube's six-month performer training programme—takes to The Core's stage on Friday and Saturday.

Laurie Slade's new version of August Strindberg's The Father continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday.

An "inspiring, intelligent new play with darkly comic undertones", Parlon Film Company's Freedom tours to the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Saturday and Sunday.

Gypsy, a "jewel of American musical theatre", continues at Leicester's Curve Theatre until Sunday.

Brian Conley plays Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh's new production of Oliver! at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday, 21 April.

Hayley Mills and Belinda Lang continue in the world premiere stage production of Ladies in Lavender at the Royal, Northampton until Saturday, 28 April.

Alecky Blythe's Where Have I Been All My Life?, created especially for the New Vic at Newcastle-under-Lyme, continues at the north Staffordshire theatre-in-the-round until Saturday, 28 April.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, The Comedy of Errors continues until 14 May (press performance 25 April); Twelfth Night (press night 25 April) continues until 15 May; The Tempest continues until 19 May (press performance on 1 May); Richard III continues until 15 September (press night 17 April); and King John also continues until 15 September (press night 19 April).

*Some links, including Amazon, Stageplays.com, Bookshop.org, ATG Tickets, LOVEtheatre, BTG Tickets, Ticketmaster, The Ticket Factory, LW Theatres and QuayTickets, are affiliate links for which BTG may earn a small fee at no extra cost to the purchaser.

Are you sure?