Midlands productions

Published: 7 November 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Paul Chequer in Private Peaceful at Buxton Opera House Credit: Jonathan Keenan
The Woman in Black at Northampton Royal
Emily Laing (Thomasina), Mark Jardine (Jellaby) and Parth Thakerar (Septimus Hodge) in Arcadia at Nottingham Playhouse Credit: Robert Day

Music Theatre Wales, the Royal Opera House, Theater Magdeburg and Scottish Opera perform The Trial, an opera by Philip Glass from the novel by Franz Kafka, at Birmingham REP on Monday.

Top crime writer Mark Billingham and country duo My Darling Clementine will team up to present The Other Half, a “unique collaboration combining storytelling and song”, in the Studio at Birmingham REP on Monday.

Scamp Theatre and Fiery Angel take Private Peaceful, Simon Reade’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s story about the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young World War I soldier awaiting a firing squad, to Buxton Opera House on Monday and Tuesday.

Blackeyed Theatre’s Not About Heroes, Stephen MacDonald’s story about two of the finest Great War poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, is told at& the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Monday and Tuesday.

Robert Daws, Dawn Steele and Gray O'Brien investigate The Perfect Murder, the stage adaptation of Peter James’s best-selling novel, at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Monday until Saturday.

Northampton’s Royal hosts Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s novel The Woman in Black from Monday until Saturday while in the Derngate auditorium there is hot stuff as The Full Monty visits, also from Monday until Saturday.

The sequel to Dreamboats and Petticoats, Bill Kenwright’s Dreamboats and Miniskirts dances into the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Monday until Saturday.

Lyric Hammersmith's Secret Theatre Company visits Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry with Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire from Tuesday until Friday, Mark Ravenhill's Show 6 from Thursday until Saturday and A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts on Saturday.

A new production of the Michael Jackson musical Thriller Live moonwalks into Wolverhampton Grand—one of only four regional UK theatres on its current tour—from Tuesday until Saturday.

The Falcon's Malteser, a “hilarious family show following the adventures of hopelessly inept private detective Tim Diamond and his sharp witted brother Nick”, goes sleuthing at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Wednesday.

Frantic Assembly’s production of Shakespeare’s Othello visits Birmingham REP from Wednesday until Saturday.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of its UK debut, the award-winning Slava’s Snowshow starts a new UK tour at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday.

The Birmingham REP production of The Snowman walks into the air at Curve, Leicester from Wednesday until Sunday.

Tom Stoppard's Arcadia continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.

Northern Broadsides relocates Oliver Goldsmith’s period comedy She Stoops to Conquer to the north of England for its latest production which continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.

Bringing the glamour of Hollywood's golden age and the glorious, tap-dancing magic of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to the stage, Irving Berlin’s Top Hat continues at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham until Saturday.

Playbox Theatre stages The Comedy of Errors and Mustardseed’s Magical Mayhem, a “lively new work introducing three- to seven-year-olds to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at its headquarters the Dream Factory, Warwick on Saturday and Sunday.

Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday 22 November.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (Much Ado About Nothing) both continue until 14 March while in the Swan Theatre John Webster’s revenge tragedy The White Devil and Jacobean domestic tragedy The Witch of Edmonton, with Eileen Atkins playing Elizabeth Sawyer, both continue until Saturday 29 November.

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