Midlands productions

Published: 11 January 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag at Birmingham REP Credit: Richard Davenport
Julian Clary as Dandini in Cinderella at Wolverhampton Grand
Michael Hugo (Spiller), Shelley Atkinson (Homily), Vanessa Schofield (Arrietty) and Nicholas Tizzard (Pod) in The Borrowers at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Credit: Andrew Billington

Chesterfield’s Winding Wheel welcomes Dreamboats and Miniskirts, the sequel to Dreamboats and Petticoats, from Monday until Saturday.

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.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Olivier Award-nominated play Fleabag, performed by Maddie Rice, visits The Door at Birmingham REP from Wednesday until Saturday as part of a UK tour.

Moscow City Ballet returns to Northampton’s Derngate with Giselle on Monday and Tuesday and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake from Wednesday until Saturday.

Final year theatre arts students at the University of Derby find there is something rotten in the state of Denmark when they perform William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.

Birmingham Blues presents a comedy satire charting “the most exciting era for the blue half of Birmingham for a generation”, Carson’s Cup, “a play suitable for football fans and families alike” and based on Birmingham City’s 2011 League Cup win, at the Blue Orange Theatre in the city on Friday and Saturday.

Back “by popular demand”, The Burlesque Show teases audiences at Northampton Royal on Friday and Saturday.

Rula Lenska continues in The Frozen Scream at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday while 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 the Hippodrome until Sunday 1 February.

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

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

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

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

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.

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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