Midlands productions

Published: 1 June 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Caryl Morgan and the ensemble in Under Milk Wood at Birmingham REP from Monday until Saturday Credit: Catherine Ashmore
Tonderai Munyevu and Sibusiso Mamba in Sizwe Banzi is Dead at mac, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday Credit: Richard Hubert-Smith
Dealer’s Choice continues at Northampton Royal until Saturday 14 June

The Clwyd Theatr Cymru production of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood tours to Birmingham REP from Monday until Saturday.

Based on the Oscar-winning film and TV series, Bill Kenwright’s new production of Fame the Musical visits the Belgrade, Coventry from Monday until Saturday.

Strictly Come Dancing favourites Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace Dance ‘Til Dawn at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

London Classic Theatre presents the 50th anniversary production of Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday and Thursday.

Birmingham Royal Ballet performs three early works by founder choreographer of the Royal Ballet companies Frederick Ashton, Dante Sonata, Les Rendezvous and Façade, collectively billed as Darkness and Light, at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday.

The Eclipse Theatre Company and Young Vic co-production of Sizwe Banzi is Dead, devised by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, is at mac, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday.

Blue Orange Arts stages Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday 14 June.

Nottingham Playhouse’s first rural touring show in more than a decade, Andy Barrett’s The Second Minute, which explores the emotional impact of World War I on the ordinary men who became soldiers and the families they left behind, visits Broadway Baptist Church, Derby on Friday and Gretton Village Hall, Northamptonshire on Saturday.

Jenny Eclair, Susie Blake and Kate Robbins get together for Return of the Grumpy Old Women—50 Shades of Beige at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Saturday.

A “tale of tradition and ambition and what happens when the legacy of a father collides with the dreams of his son”, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s Khandan (Family) continues in Birmingham REP’s Studio until Saturday.

More than 30 professional and community actors continue to perform Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee’s Inherit the Wind at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 14 June.

Northampton Royal and Derngate’s revival of Patrick Marber’s dark comedy set in the world of amateur poker, Dealer’s Choice continues on the Royal stage until Saturday 14 June.

David Lonsdale and Sarah Jane Buckley continue in John Godber’s September in the Rain at Lichfield Garrick until Saturday 21 June.

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 and Arden of Faversham continues until Thursday 2 October.

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