Midlands productions

Published: 29 December 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Joe Servi (Scrooge) and Angela Wynter (The Ghost of Christmas Present) in A Christmas Carol at Birmingham REP until Saturday Credit: Robert Day
Rebecca Trehearn as Molly Jensen and Stewart Clarke as Sam Wheat in Ghost which continues at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham until Sunday Credit: Sean Ebsworth Barnes
Horrible Christmas continues at Derby Theatre until 11 January Credit: Robert Day

Sarah Thomas plays the Fairy Godmother and Jonny Freeman is Buttons in Cinderella which continues at Buxton Opera House until Wednesday.

Bryony Lavery’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.

Hardeep Singh Kohli is the Genie of the Lamp and Jocelyn Jee Esien is the Empress of China in Aladdin which continues at De Montfort Hall, Leicester until Sunday.

Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, adapted by Patrick Sandford, continues on the Northampton Royal stage until Sunday while husband-and-wife team Linda Lusardi and Sam Kane are in Sleeping Beauty in the Derngate auditorium which also continues until Sunday.

Jack and the Beanstalk continues on the main stage at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre until Sunday.

Jonathan Wilkes returns to the Regent Theatre, Stoke in Snow White and Seven Dwarfs until Sunday.

Former EastEnders favourite Cheryl Fergison and X-Factor finalist Marcus Collins are in Jack and the Beanstalk which continues at Derby’s Assembly Rooms until Sunday.

Former Hi-de-Hi star Ruth Madoc continues as Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at Mansfield Palace Theatre until Sunday.

Lichfield Garrick’s panto Snow White and the Magic Mirror continues until Sunday.

Ghost the Musical, the Christmas production at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, continues until Sunday.

Playbox Theatre continues to present The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at the Dream Factory, Warwick until Sunday.

Thriller Live continues to moonwalk into the ICC, Birmingham until Sunday.

The Courtyard Theatre, Hereford continues to present Cinderella until Sunday.

A “playful interactive adventure”, Along the Riverbank, which is inspired by Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, continues in the Underground venue, Northampton until Sunday.

The Birmingham Stage Company production of Terry Deary’s Horrible Christmas continues at Derby until Saturday 11 January.

The rock ‘n’ roll panto Sleeping Beauty continues at Stafford Gatehouse until Saturday 11 January.

David Hasselhoff plays panto’s ultimate baddie Captain Hook in Nottingham Theatre Royal’s panto Peter Pan which continues until Sunday 12 January.

A new production of Chicago continues at Leicester’s Curve until Saturday 18 January.

Kenneth Alan Taylor’s 30-year reign as dame in Nottingham Playhouse’s pantos comes to an end with his portrayal of Dame Daisy in Jack and the Beanstalk which continues until Saturday, 18 January.

Comedian Joe Pasquale leads the cast in Wolverhampton Grand’s panto Sleeping Beauty which continues until Saturday 18 January.

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.

“The UK’s biggest panto”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with John Partridge heading the cast, continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 2 February.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Ella Hickson’s new adaptation of J M Barrie’s Wendy and Peter Pan continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until 2 March while in the Swan Mike Poulton’s adaptations of Hilary Mantel's award-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies continue until 29 March (press performances Wednesday 8 January).

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