Midlands productions

Published: 4 January 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

The Snowman is at Birmingham REP from 8 until 18 January
Stewart Clarke and Rebecca Trehearn in Ghost the Musical at Stoke's Regent Theatre from 8 until 18 January Credit: Sean Ebsworth Barnes
Honor Blackman as herself at Derby's Guildhall Theatre on 12 January

Based on Raymond Brigg’s book and featuring "Walking In The Air" by Howard Blake, The Snowman, which has been seen all over the world, makes its way back to its home, Birmingham REP, from Wednesday until Saturday 18 January.

Ghost the Musical tours to Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday, January 18.

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

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

Northampton Royal and Derngate’s community group The Actors Company performs six short plays from David Ives’s collection All In The Timing at Underground, Northampton on Saturday and Monday 13 January, and also at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery on Tuesday 14 January and at the NN Cafe on Friday 17 January.

An actress with more than 60 years’ experience, Honor Blackman as Herself will be in conversation with Richard Digby in Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Sunday.

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

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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