Midlands productions

Published: 29 April 2012
Reporter: Steve Orme

Yes Prime MinisterGraham Seed and Michael Simkins say Yes Prime Minister at Derby Theatre from tomorrow (Monday) until Saturday.

Mischief, bad behaviour and political incorrectness will be in abundance in Avenue Q at De Montfort Hall, Leicester from tomorrow until Saturday.

Welsh baritone Rhydian Roberts takes the role of Teen Angel in Grease which slides into Northampton’s Derngate from tomorrow until Saturday.

The Winter's TaleAll-male company Propeller in association with the Touring Partnership will be presenting two Shakespeare plays at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry this week, The Winter's Tale from Tuesday until Saturday and Henry V from Wednesday until Saturday.

The Leicester Curve production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I tours to Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.

Sisters Gillian and Kim Taylforth appear together on stage for the first time in a new musical comedy, Girls Night by Louise Roche, at Derby’s Assembly Rooms from Tuesday until Saturday.

Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker!As part of its 20th anniversary Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! returns to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Tuesday until Saturday.

The stage version of Nick Hornby’s best-selling memoir about an obsessive Arsenal fan, Fever Pitch, presented by The Future is Unwritten, kicks off at Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre on Thursday at 7.30pm.

Northampton Royal and Derngate Youth Theatre performs Bryony Lavery’s Illyria, which explores the horror of war and its ability to corrupt the human heart, in the Underground auditorium on Thursday and Friday.

John Godber’s comedy drama about an aspiring film director who’s forced to return home to his disapproving parents, Weekend Breaks visits Buxton Opera House from Thursday until Saturday.

National Dance Company Wales stages a triple bill of international work in the studio at Leicester’s Curve on Friday and Saturday.

Margi Clarke joins the cast of Hormonal Housewives at Stoke’s Regent Theatre on Saturday.

Mary ShelleyHelen Edmundson’s new play Mary Shelley about the life of the Frankenstein author continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.

Global dancing star Karan Pangali’s The Dance of Bollywood is at Leicester’s Curve on Saturday and Sunday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, The Comedy of Errors continues until 14 May; Twelfth Night continues until 15 May; The Tempest continues until 19 May (press performance 1 May); Richard III continues until 15 September; and King John also continues until 15 September.

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