Midlands productions

Published: 19 January 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Cardboard Citizens Glasshouse at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Wednesday and Thursday
Lyrikal Fearta: The Letter and Broken Lineage by Jonzi D in The Door at Birmingham REP on Friday and Saturday
Lydia Leonard as Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies in The Swan, Stratford until 29 March Credit: Keith Pattison

Moscow City Ballet’s 25th anniversary tour visits Northampton’s Derngate with Tchaikovsky’s Don Quixote on Monday, Swan Lake on Tuesday and Thursday and The Nutcracker on Friday and Saturday.

Something wicked goes to Wolverhampton Grand when Shakespeare 4 Kidz presents Macbeth on Tuesday.

OperaUpClose returns to Coventry’s Belgrade with its new version of Verdi’s La Traviata on Tuesday.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole has a Licence to Thrill at Wolverhampton Grand on Wednesday.

Cardboard Citizens will invite the audience to stop the action during the second part of Kate Tempest’s Glasshouse to rehearse alternative scenarios when the drama is performed at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Wednesday and Thursday.

A tribute to the Bee Gees, Nights on Broadway should get the audience at Wolverhampton Grand jive talking on Friday.

Jonzi D celebrates three decades as a pioneering voice in hip-hop dance theatre with a triple bill, Lyrikal Fearta: The Letter and Broken Lineage in The Door at Birmingham REP on Friday and Saturday.

Let’s Hang On takes you on a musical journey through the prolific career of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons at the Regent Theatre, Stoke on Saturday.

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.

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.

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