Midlands productions

Published: 27 April 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Henry Shields and Henry Lewis in The Play That Goes Wrong at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday Credit: Alistair Muir
A Journey Round My Skull at mac, Birmingham on Thursday
Alan Ayckbourn’s Things We Do for Love at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday

Strictly Come Dancing’s Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace Dance ‘Til Dawn in their new show, “a classic, love story that brings vintage Hollywood glamour to the present”, at De Montfort Hall, Leicester from Monday until Wednesday.

Birmingham Opera Company continues to stage a new production of Musorgsky’s KHOVANSKYGATE: A National Enquiry as part of the UK-Russia Year of Culture 2014 in Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Singer Natalie Imbruglia makes her UK stage debut in Alan Ayckbourn’s Things We Do for Love at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

Based on the Oscar-winning film and TV series Fame the Musical visits Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

A new musical inspired by the life of pop legend Marc Bolan, 20th Century Boy, which tells the story of Bolan and his band T Rex, rides a white swan into the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Monday until Saturday.

Mischief Theatre Company’s The Play That Goes Wrong tours to Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.

The International Dance Festival, Birmingham continues this week with Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre performing Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Petrushka at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Alias staging Sideways Rain at Birmingham Hippodrome, also on Tuesday and Wednesday; and Kidd Pivot presenting Tempest Replica at the Hippodrome on Friday and Saturday.

Reform Theatre Company can be seen Kissing Sid James in Peter Farquhar’s comedy at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Wednesday.

Catalan theatre company A Tres Bandes, establishing a reputation as “creators of sharp, perceptive work for international audiences”, performs Locus Amoenus at mac, Birmingham on Wednesday.

A “love story put under the surgeon’s knife” which takes inspiration from a patient’s extraordinary account of brain surgery during an experimental procedure in the early 20th century, Kindle Theatre’s A Journey Round My Skull makes an appointment at mac, Birmingham on Thursday.

Curve Young Company presents Lucinda Coxon’s What Are They Like?, “which conjures a weird universe in which a group of teenagers put on the shoes and clothes of their parents and magically become the older generation”, in the studio at Leicester’s Curve from Thursday until Saturday.

Coventry Belgrade Theatre’s Acting Out company stages its new production of James Graham's Bassett, a “pacey, urgent and funny play that shows the struggles of young people who have inherited a world at war”, in the Belgrade’s B2 auditorium from Thursday until Saturday.

Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre gets a good taste for Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine from Thursday until Saturday.

Birmingham-based theatre company Don’t Go Into The Cellar! presents two “gripping” Victorian and Edwardian stage shows in Lichfield Garrick’s Studio, Tea with Oscar, hosted by Mr Wilde himself, on Friday and The Singular Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, with the great detective recounting highlights of his crime-busting career, on Saturday.

Breathe Out Theatre looks at Rob Johnston’s one-act play based on the life and work of scientist Rosalind Franklin, instrumental in the 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, in An Extraordinary Light in the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio, Buxton on Saturday.

Co-Opera Co sings in Italian Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at Buxton Opera House on Saturday.

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate continues to stage the world première of Tamsin Oglesby’s adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s farce Every Last Trick until Saturday 10 May.

The world première of the musical Water Babies, based on Charles Kingsley’s 1863 novel of the same name, continues at Leicester’s Curve until Saturday 17 May.

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

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