Midlands productions

Published: 16 November 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Denise Van Outen in Some Girl I Used to Know in the Studio at Curve, Leicester on Tuesday and Wednesday
The Anatomy of Melancholy at Lincoln Performing Arts Centre on Thursday
The G Spot at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday and Sunday

Russian State Ballet and Opera House dances into Derby’s Assembly Rooms with Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake on Monday.

The New Youth Theatre “brings the atmosphere of Victorian Christmas traditions to the stage” in the musical A Christmas Carol at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Monday and Tuesday.

The 60th anniversary production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap tours to Buxton Opera House from Monday until Saturday.

Oddsocks visits Wolverhampton Arena with its family adventure Treasure Island on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Chisinau National Opera and National Philharmonic takes two of Verdi’s works to Derngate, Northampton: Nabucco on Tuesday and Aida on Wednesday.

Denise Van Outen stars in her new, one-woman romantic comedy Some Girl I Used to Know in the Studio at Curve, Leicester on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry uncovers a new thriller about “spies, double agents and the opaqueness of the human soul”, Dawn King’s Ciphers, from Tuesday until Saturday.

Actors Touring Company, Schauspielhaus Wien, Brageteatret and the Young Vic present David Greig’s The Events in the Studio at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.

Celebrating the music of Franki Valli and the Four Seasons, New Jersey Nights walks like a man into Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

Opera North marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth with a Festival of Britten at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal, featuring A Midsummer Night's Dream on Tuesday and Friday; Peter Grimes on Wednesday and Saturday; and Death in Venice on Thursday.

Red Earth Theatre and mac Birmingham present “an action-packed adventure for the whole family”, Emil and the Detectives, at Lincoln Drill Hall on Wednesday.

Thriller Live which celebrates the sound of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 moonwalks into Stoke’s Regent Theatre on Wednesday.

Stan’s Café gets to grips with The Anatomy of Melancholy, “perhaps the world's most extraordinary self-help manual”, at Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln on Thursday.

Clare Duffy, Jon Spooner and Chris Thorpe’s “sci-conspiracy thriller” The Noise should make a good sound in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.

London Classic Theatre stages Harold Pinter’s Betrayal at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Friday.

Hotbuckle Productions performs Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield at Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford, Lincolnshire on Friday.

Zest Theatre’s Gatecrash takes the audience and places them in the middle of a fictional teenage house party at Derby Theatre on Friday.

Actors, singers, dancers and animators stage the Corby Youth Arts Slam at The Core at Corby Cube, Corby, Northamptonshire on Friday.

Taste Productions gets its teeth into Valerie Goodwin’s The Magdalen Whitewash, set in the 1930s in an Irish laundry where young girls were sent after getting pregnant, in the Pauper’s Pit Theatre, Buxton on Friday and Saturday.

Kaleidoscope Intermediate Theatre Company performs Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre on Friday and Saturday.

Birmingham Royal Ballet stages Sir Peter Wright's production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker at Birmingham Hippodrome from Friday until Thursday 12 December.

That'll Be The Day, “the UK’s most successful touring rock 'n' roll production”, has a new Christmas show which parties into Derby’s Assembly Rooms on Saturday.

The Opinion Makers, a new musical described as “Mad Men meets Miranda”, continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday.

Ricky Rowe plays mild-mannered Geraldo who gets a second chance at love with his childhood sweetheart in Rowe’s comedy The G Spot at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday and Sunday.

Alistair McGowan presents his new one-man show Not Just a Pretty Voice at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry 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.

Birmingham Stage Company continues to perform David Wood’s adaptation of Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden at Birmingham’s Old Rep Theatre until Saturday 25 January.

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