Midlands productions

Published: 13 April 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Tap Factory is at Wolverhampton Grand on Monday and Tuesday
Entertaining Mr Sloane tours to the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Tuesday until Saturday
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats is at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall from Tuesday until Saturday, 26 April

Percussive dance meets high-energy acrobatics in the “visually thrilling” Tap Factory at Wolverhampton Grand on Monday and Tuesday.

Derby Theatre is one of the regional venues for the National Theatre’s Connections Festival and will host new plays performed by youth groups from Monday until Wednesday.

Serving and veteran soldiers perform Owen Sheers’s new play The Two Worlds of Charlie F at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall’s “fast-moving comedy of mistaken identity”, Who’s Who is a Rumpus Theatre Company presentation at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday and Wednesday.

London Classic Theatre tours Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane to the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Tuesday until Saturday.

Birmingham Stage Company is at the Belgrade, Coventry with David Wood’s adaptation of Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden from Tuesday until Saturday.

The memory returns to Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall when Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats purrs in from Tuesday until Saturday 26 April.

The Franki Valli and the Four Seasons tribute show Let’s Hang On is beggin’ for an audience at Birmingham Town Hall on Thursday and Derngate, Northampton on Saturday.

The nation's “favourite rock ‘n’ roll variety show” That’ll Be The Day rolls into Wolverhampton Grand on Friday.

Goofus Theatre Company’s first tour, Taking Charlie, a “dark, comedic fantasy based on a true story about the abduction of Charlie Chaplin’s body by two hapless kidnappers in 1978”, visits the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio, Buxton on Friday and Saturday.

Marti Pellow continues as Che in Evita at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.

Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre continues to stage the touring production West Side Story until Saturday.

The Spanish Golden Age Season at Coventry’s Belgrade, which features A Lady of Little Sense by Lope de Vega in a new translation by David Johnston, Don Gil of the Green Breeches by Tirso de Molina in a new translation by Sean O’Brien and Punishment Without Revenge by Lope de Vega in a new translation by Meredith Oakes, continues until Saturday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Henry IV Parts I and II continue until Saturday 6 September (press performance Wednesday 16 April) while in the Swan Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl continues until Tuesday 30 September.

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