Midlands productions

Published: 16 February 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Propeller’s The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream are at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday
Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain is at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday
Punjabi comedy play Desi Peo is at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday

Edward Jaspers performs a one-man version of Bruno Vincent's dark novel Grisly Tales from Tumblewater in the Studio at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Monday and Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Saturday.

The theatrical send-up Fifty One Shades of Maggie, “one woman’s (slightly bruising) search for Mr Right”, tours to Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Wednesday.

Robert Powell is Hercule Poirot in The Agatha Christie Theatre Company’s presentation of the author’s first play Black Coffee at Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Sleepwalk Collective stages the UK première of Karaoke, a “performance about love and rockets for two performers and an autocue”, in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday.

All-male company Propeller performs two of Shakespeare’s comedies, The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.

Birmingham Stage Company’s latest Horrible Histories tale Barmy Britain goes bonkers at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

Birmingham Royal Ballet presents Three of a Kind, a triple bill of Stravinsky’s Card Game, George Balenchine’s Slaughter on Tenth Avenue and The Prince of the Pagodas, David Bintley’s ballet to Benjamin Britten’s only commissioned ballet score, at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday.

Music Theatre Warwick adapts Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.

Now in its 28th year, That’ll Be The Day rolls into Chesterfield’s Winding Wheel on Thursday.

Northamptonshire venue The Core at Corby Cube gets a taste of Abbamania on Thursday.

Denise Van Outen visits Wolverhampton Grand with her new one-woman play Some Girl I Used to Know from Thursday until Saturday.

Talawa Theatre Company and the National Theatre tour Errol John’s play Moon On A Rainbow Shawl to Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday.

DC Jackson’s My Romantic History should seduce the audience at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Friday.

Mass Movement, an annual show which is “an insight into the wealth of dance and creativity” in Leicestershire, will be staged in the Studio at Leicester’s Curve on Saturday.

Traditional and modern family life clash in Desi Peo, a modern Punjabi comedy play, at The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday.

Actor, theatre maker and self-taught opera director Dr Jonathan Miller will be addressing an audience at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.

The “ultimate tribute show”, A Night of Dirty Dancing, promises the audience at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre the time of their life on Saturday.

Ben Jonson’s satire The Alchemist continues in Coventry Belgrade’s B2 auditorium until Saturday.

Lee Pace and Dan James are Laurel and Hardy in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Sunday.

David Alacey, Des Coleman and Paul Drakeley who put together the original Rat Pack show go to Wolverhampton Grand with The Rat Pack is Back on Sunday.

Mike Kenny’s new adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday 1 March while a companion piece Penelope RETOLD, created by Caroline Horton, which looks at the story from the perspective of Odysseus’ wife, opens on Wednesday in the theatre's rehearsal and performance space and also runs until 1 March.

Northern Broadsides’ presentation of Deborah McAndrew’s new play An August Bank Holiday Lark continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 1 March.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Ella Hickson’s new adaptation of JM 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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