Midlands productions

Published: 23 November 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Cabaret at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday Credit: Keith Pattison
Dracula at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Thursday
Mess at Wolverhampton Arena on Thursday

Poonamallee Productions gets bullish about Michael Morpurgo’s Toro! Toro! at Buxton Opera House on Monday.

A “magical, sexual journey into real and fabled romance between beastly and beautiful characters, where roles are shared as love is declared”, Beauty and the Beast is at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Monday until Wednesday.

The Official Agatha Christie Theatre Company’s tour of Go Back For Murder moves to the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Monday until Saturday.

Mark Wynter performs some of his classic hits in Dreamboats and Petticoats—The Musical at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday.

London Classic Theatre takes Harold Pinter’s Betrayal to the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Students from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama visit Derby’s Guildhall Theatre with Rodney Ackland’s version of Alexander Ostrovsky’s Too Clever By Half on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Moscow City Ballet celebrates its silver anniversary by visiting Stoke’s Regent Theatre for the first time to perform Swan Lake on Tuesday and Wednesday and Nutcracker on Thursday.

Will Young plays Emcee and Lichfield-born Siobhan Dillon is Sally Bowles in Cabaret at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.

The John Godber Company and Theatre Royal Wakefield production of Godber’s comedy Teechers visits Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

Tall Stories presents a show “where storytelling, comedy and songs create a magical, mysterious world for everyone” in The Snow Dragon in the Foyle Studio at mac, Birmingham from Tuesday until Sunday 8 December.

A new musical play which celebrates the life and music of Doris Day, Secret Love starring Claudia Morris is at Newark Palace Theatre on Wednesday.

Blackeyed Theatre in association with South Hill Park stages John Ginman’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which blends Victorian gothic with the contemporary, at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Thursday.

Caroline Horton’s play about anorexia, Mess, is at Wolverhampton Arena on Thursday.

A “powerful and immersive play that takes the audience into the heart of the war on terror”, Guantanamo Boy plays The Drum, Birmingham on Thursday and Friday.

The legendary rock ‘n’ roll show That’ll Be The Day returns with a new Christmas production to Northampton’s Derngate on Saturday.

A tribute to music legend Ray Charles, Hit the Road Jack starring Buzz D’Angelo is on the road at Buxton Opera House on Saturday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Alvin McCraney’s stripped-down, radical new version of Antony and Cleopatra continues in the Swan Theatre until Saturday.

Adapted for the stage from the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Room on the Broom is the Christmas offering by Tall Stories at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Saturday until Sunday, 29 December.

Shivam Theatre will perform in Gujarati Kiran Purohit’s comedy Maari Honey-Ne Behave Money at The Drum, Birmingham on Sunday.

Birmingham Royal Ballet continues to stage Sir Peter Wright's production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker at Birmingham Hippodrome until Thursday 12 December.

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

An adaptation by Theresa Heskins, artistic director of Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic theatre, of Dodie Smith’s The Hundred and One Dalmatians continues at the New Vic until Saturday 1 February.

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