Midlands productions

Published: 9 November 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Ben Miller stars in The Duck House at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday
Phizzical’s re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline visits Curve, Leicester from Thursday until Saturday
Zhe: [noun] Undefined will be staged in The Door at Birmingham REP on Friday and Saturday

The Chisinau National Opera and National Philharmonic are at the Grand, Wolverhampton with Puccini’s La Bohème on Monday and Aidi by Verdi on Tuesday.

Dan Patterson and Colin Swash’s The Duck House, “an outrageous new laugh-out-loud comedy set in a world of dodgy receipts, dodgier deceit and pure Parliamentary panic”, which features Ben Miller, visits Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday.

As part of its 60th anniversary, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap tours to De Montfort Hall, Leicester from Monday until Saturday.

Buddy – the Buddy Holly Story which tells the story of the singer-songwriter’s meteoric rise to fame is at Derngate, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.

Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Watson hunt down the hound of the Baskervilles in the spoof Ha Ha Holmes! at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Tuesday.

Natasha Hamilton and Rory Taylor join up for the 20th anniversary concert of the “pop cultural phenomenon” Rent at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Tuesday.

Dance Touring Partnership presents Austrian company Nobulus with Out of the Shadow, “an extraordinary mix of breakdance, popping and locking, contemporary dance, acrobatics and ballet”, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday.

London Classic Theatre tours Harold Pinter’s Betrayal to the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Tuesday until Saturday.

Katie Hall and Louis Maskell lead the cast of West Side Story which will feel pretty at Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

Welsh National Opera makes its home at Birmingham Hippodrome this week, performing Puccini’s Tosca on Tuesday and Saturday; and three pieces by Donizetti, Anna Bolena on Wednesday, Maria Stuarda on Thursday and Roberto Devereux on Friday.

Reform Theatre Company makes a return visit to the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton with Mark Whiteley’s Burt ‘n’ Joyce on Wednesday.

Buxton Opera House hosts An Evening with Sir Roger Moore on Thursday.

A “revealing, touching and hilarious account of the man who became Britain's number one at getting rid of number two”, Royal Flush is a Rich Seam Theatre Company presentation at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Thursday.

Hollie-Jay Bowes, Terri Dwyer and Diane Keen recount The Vagina Monologues at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Thursday.

Phizzical and Coventry Belgrade Theatre’s Bollywood re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline visits the Studio at Curve, Leicester from Thursday until Saturday.

The Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton hosts Miracle on 34th Street the Musical from Thursday until Saturday.

Moscow Ballet La Classique is back at the Belgrade, Coventry with Sleeping Beauty from Thursday until Saturday.

Rat Pack Live swings into Stafford’s Gatehouse Theatre on Friday.

Based on the true stories of the two performers, Zhe: [noun] Undefined, an “immensely moving, funny and courageous piece of theatre which follows the lives of two British Africans living at the crossroads of culture, nationality, gender and sexuality”, will be staged in The Door at Birmingham REP on Friday and Saturday.

Hotbuckle Productions performs Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield at Riverhead Theatre, Louth, Lincolnshire on Saturday.

Birmingham-born actor Mark Williams makes his debut at the city’s REP in Molière’s Tartuffe which continues until Saturday.

The Nottingham Playhouse and York Theatre Royal co-production of Shakespeare’s Richard III continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.

Nottingham writer Michael Eaton’s new play about a Victorian criminal, Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend, continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade until Saturday.

Secret Love starring Claudia Morris, a new musical play which celebrates the life and music of Doris Day, tours to the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe on Sunday.

Red Earth Theatre and mac Birmingham present “an action-packed adventure for the whole family”, Emil and the Detectives, at Embrace Arts, Leicester on Sunday.

Alistair McGowan is Not Just a Pretty Voice at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre David Tennant continues as Richard II until Saturday while in the Swan, Alvin McCraney’s stripped-down, radical new version of Antony and Cleopatra continues until Saturday 30 November.

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