Midlands productions

Published: 3 January 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

Laura Pitt-Pulford (Maria) and Von Trapp Children in The Sound of Music at Curve, Leicester Credit: Pamela Raith Photography
Birmingham Stage Company’s Horrible Christmas at the Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham Credit: Darren Bell

Jars of Clay Theatre Company stages Beauty and the Beast at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday.

The updated Beyond The Barricade looks back over 15 years in concert and includes songs from Miss Saigon, The Lion King, Phantom Of The Opera, West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, Blood Brothers, The Jersey Boys and Les Miserables when the show visits Northampton’s Derngate on Friday.

Director Paulette Randall promises there will be a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on in Cinderella The Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto which continues at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre until Saturday.

Iain Lauchlan continues as Widow Twankey in Coventry Belgrade Theatre’s Aladdin until Saturday.

Lesley Joseph and Sam Attwater appear in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which continues at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham until Sunday.

Based on the picture book written and illustrated by Judith Kerr and adapted for the stage by David Wood, The Tiger Who Came to Tea continues at Birmingham Town Hall until Wednesday 14 January.

Leicester’s Curve continues to present a new production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The Sound of Music until Saturday 17 January.

Sleeping Beauty, Kenneth Alan Taylor’s 31st panto for Nottingham Playhouse, continues until Saturday 17 January.

Birmingham Stage Company’s Horrible Christmas continues at the Old Rep Theatre, Station Street, Birmingham until Saturday 17 January.

Julian Clary, Joe Tracini and Niki Evans continue in Cinderella at Wolverhampton Grand until Sunday 18 January.

A new staging of Roald Dahl’s popular children’s book The BFG continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday 24 January.

Mary Norton’s family adventure The Borrowers continues at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre until Saturday 31 January.

Jane McDonald, Duncan James, Chris Gascoyne, Gary Milton, Paul Zerdin and Matt Slack continue in “Britain’s most popular pantomime” Jack and the Beanstalk at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 1 February.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Christmas Truce continues until 31 January, and Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (Much Ado About Nothing) both continue until 14 March. In the Swan Theatre, David Troughton heads the cast of Thomas Dekker’s Jacobean comedy The Shoemaker's Holiday, which runs until Saturday 7 March.

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