Midlands productions

Published: 15 February 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

Anything Goes at the Regent Theatre, Stoke Credit: Johan Persson
Those Magnificent Men at Upstairs at the Western, Leicester
Jacob James Beswick (fox) and Dominique Jackson (mayfly) in Only a Day at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Credit: Robert Day

The National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time tours to Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.

Paul Nicholas, Colin Buchanan, Susan Penhaligon, Mark Curry, Verity Rushworth, Frazer Hines and Ben Nealon of the Agatha Christie Theatre Company perform the Queen of Crime’s popular thriller And Then There Were None at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Monday until Saturday.

Debbie Kurup, Matt Rawle, Hugh Sachs, Jane Wymark, Simon Rouse, Elisha Whitney and Zoë Rainey are in the cast of the Sheffield Theatres production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes at The Regent Theatre, Stoke, from Monday until Saturday.

Gary Lucy, Andrew Dunn, Louis Emerick, Rupert Hill, Martin Miller and Bobby Schofield find there is nowhere to hide in Simon Beaufoy’s The Full Monty at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

Birmingham writer and actor Tyrone Huggins’s play The Honey Man, a two-hander about a man originally from the Caribbean who lives in a rundown, isolated cottage and spends his days making herbal remedies, buzzes into The Door at Birmingham REP from Monday until Saturday.

Marking the 100th anniversary of the World War I, Birdsong, based on Sebastian Faulks’s novel, visits Buxton Opera House from Tuesday until Saturday.

Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth’s work-in-progress musical Odd based on Homer’s Odyssey—winner of the 2014 Perfect Pitch and Royal and Derngate award for musical theatre—will be performed in concert at Northampton’s Royal on Friday.

The Ornate Johnsons and the Foundry Group take off with Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon’s Those Magnificent Men, the story of the first non-stop transatlantic flight, when they are Upstairs at the Western, Leicester on Friday and Saturday.

Physical theatre company WinterWalker takes its first major production, Three Keepers, a play without words for those aged eight and over, to The Castle, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire on Friday and the Riverhead Theatre, Louth, Lincolnshire on Saturday.

James Dreyfus and Maureen Lipman continue in Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Harvey at Birmingham REP until Saturday.

Dominique Jackson continues as the mayfly in Only a Day, penned by German children’s author and illustrator Martin Baltscheit and translated by David Henry Wilson, in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday.

Nottingham Playhouse continues to stage the regional première of Laura Wade’s political comedy Posh until Saturday 28 February.

John Van Druten’s rarely performed Bell, Book and Candle continues at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic until Saturday 28 February.

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; 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 while the world première of Tom Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer, about J Robert Oppenheimer, known as “the father of the atom bomb”, also continues until 7 March.

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