Midlands productions

Published: 26 January 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Kindertransport at Derby Theatre from Monday until Saturday
Penny Dreadful Theatre’s How to be Immortal at mac, Birmingham on Thursday
Eric and Little Ern is at Northampton Royal on Saturday

Derby-based Oddsocks Productions performs Treasure Island in the city’s Guildhall Theatre from Monday until Friday.

Paula Wilcox and Janet Dibley appear in Diane Samuels’s Kindertransport, a “moving insight into the complex relationship between mothers and daughters, a stunning story of love and loss, past and present and hope for the future”, at Derby Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Noel Sullivan stars as Mitzi in Priscilla Queen of the Desert which tours to Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.

Jukebox musical Dreamboats and Petticoats returns to Northampton’s Derngate “by popular demand” from Monday until Saturday.

Maureen Nolan is Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

The McOnie Company’s theatre-dance revue Drunk premieres at Leicester’s Curve Theatre on Tuesday and Saturday before transferring to London’s Bridewell Theatre.

The Birmingham REP production of The Snowman, based on Raymond Briggs’ book, visits Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Tuesday until Saturday.

Anton Du Beke’s new show Ballroom to Broadway waltzes into the Victoria Hall, Stoke on Wednesday.

Opera Romance will feature a host of famous tunes including "La Traviata", "The Pearl Fishers' Duet", "The Toreador's Song" and "You Are My Heart's Delight" at Lichfield Garrick on Wednesday.

Penny Dreadful Theatre’s “twisted new play about what death leaves behind”, How to be Immortal, visits mac, Birmingham on Thursday.

Lichfield Garrick hosts An Audience with Lords Hattersley and Hurd on Thursday.

Featuring Ian Smith, Alex Moore, Neville Cann and Taresh Solanki, John Godber’s Bouncers springs into the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday 8 February.

The only Michael Jackson tribute act to be hired by MJ himself, The Legend Continues featuring Navi is at Buxton Opera House on Friday.

An “affectionate, moving and funny homage to Britain’s greatest comedy double act”, Eric and Little Ern which features Ian Ashpitel and Jonty Stephens tours to Northampton Royal on Saturday.

Curve Theatre hosts the search for Leicester’s Best Dance Crew 2014, which has a prize of £1,000, on 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.

Ben Jonson’s satire The Alchemist, which tells the story of a trio of undesirable con artists who offer a range of alternative services from the secret of eternal youth to a scheme which will turn a tin can into bankable gold, runs in Coventry Belgrade’s B2 auditorium from Saturday until Saturday 22 February.

Mid Wales Opera presents Handel’s Acis and Galatea, with words by John Gay, at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole has a Licence to Thrill at Derby’s Assembly Roomson Sunday.

Giving talented young people an opportunity to showcase their work, N.Dance 14 takes to the Northampton Derngate stage on Sunday.

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

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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