Midlands productions

Published: 15 June 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Ben Heathcoate as Stu and Michael McKell as Stoner in Tonight's the Night at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday Credit: Alastair Muir
The touring cast of Birdsong which visits Leicester’s Curve from Tuesday until Saturday Credit: Jack Ladenburg
Chris Price as Milo and Philip Arditti as Yossarian in Catch 22 at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday Credit: Topher McGrillis

Nick Owen interviews Brian Conley and delves into his showbiz career at Lichfield Garrick on Monday.

The Rod Stewart musical Tonight’s the Night sails into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

The New Youth Theatre stages Oklahoma at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The stage version of Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong visits Leicester’s Curve from Tuesday until Saturday.

Wolverhampton Grand’s summer play season continues with Donald F East’s Design for Murder from Tuesday until Saturday.

The Northern Stage production of Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 visits Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

Far from the Sea, a new play by Steve Waters which dissects the fate of a city in a world of conflict, premières at the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.

Denton Chikura’s “madcap farce” The Epic Adventure of Nhamo the Manyika Warrior and his Sexy Wife Chipo can be seen in The Door at Birmingham REP from Wednesday until Saturday.

Welsh National Opera stages Sergio Morabito and Jossi Wieler’s highly charged production Moses und Aron on Wednesday, Verdi’s Nabucco on Thursday and Saturday, and The Fall of the House of Usher on Friday, all at Birmingham Hippodrome.

Baroque Theatre Company goes Up Pompeii at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Thursday.

Nottingham Playhouse's community theatre company the Playhouse Ensemble presents Paradise by Nick Wood in the Neville Studio on Thursday and Friday.

Avenue Q visits Buxton Opera House from Thursday until Saturday.

Northampton Royal and Derngate Younger Musical Theatre Company stages Honk! Jr, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Ugly Duckling, in the Underground Studio from Thursday until Saturday.

The Birmingham REP presentation of Rachel Delahay’s new play, which features two teenagers developing an unlikely friendship on a number 11 bus, Circles, stops off at Derby Theatre’s Studio on Friday.

mac birmingham presents Bryony Kimmings's Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model, “an audacious, provocative protest against flagrant global attempts to sexualise and commodify childhood for profit”, on Friday.

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

Warwick-based Shakespeare Young Company tours The Comedy of Errors to Rowheath Pavilion, Bournville on Sunday at 7PM and George Peele’s play The Old wives’ Tale, reimagined as Old Wives’ Tales, at 8PM.

Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy Woman In Mind continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 28 June.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, the Midsummer Mischief festival of world premières runs in The Other Place until 12 July while in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Henry IV Parts I and II continue until Saturday 6 September and 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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