Midlands productions

Published: 5 April 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

Elena Dee in Madama Butterfly at Stoke’s Regent Theatre Credit: Ellen Kent
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham
Antony Sher (Willy Loman) and Harriet Walter (Linda Loman) in Death of a Salesman in the Swan Theatre, Stratford Credit: Ellie Kurttz

Husband and wife duo Jeffrey Holland and Judy Buxton are on the right track in Arnold Ridley’s The Ghost Train, a Talking Scarlet production, at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.

Olivier Award-winning rock spectacular Return to the Forbidden Plant, based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, visits Leicester’s Curve as part of its 25th anniversary tour from Tuesday until Saturday.

Lichfield Garrick Youth Theatre celebrates its 30th anniversary by revisiting its first production, Grease, at the Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.

Jenny Eclair, Susie Blake and Kate Robbins take to the Mansfield Palace Theatre stage in Grumpy Old Women—Fifty Shades of Beige on Wednesday.

Award-winning producer Ellen Kent takes Verdi’s masterpiece Rigoletto and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly to Stoke’s Regent Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday.

The Touring Consortium Theatre Company presents a new production of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.

Northampton’s Derngate welcomes back “the nation’s favourite rock ‘n’ roll variety show” That’ll Be The Day on Saturday.

Simon Stephens’s adaptation based on Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time continues at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham until Saturday.

Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, a “glorious urban love story between two young men set on an inner-city housing estate”, whose cast includes Charlie Brooks, Thomas Law, Sam Jackson, Gerard McCarthy and Vanessa Babirye, continues at the Patrick Centre at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.

Tamasha and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry continue to present Blood by Emteaz Hussain, a “21st century urban love story”, in the Belgrade’s B2 auditorium until Saturday.

Robert Powell explores the many different worlds of Rudyard Kipling in Just So at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.

“The most complete Irish show in the world today”, Essence of Ireland dances into Wolverhampton Grand on Sunday.

Anthony Burgess’s translation of Edmund Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac continues on the Northampton Royal stage until Saturday 25 April.

The touring version of Shrek the Musical continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 26 April.

The Royal Shakespeare Company continues to celebrate the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth by staging Death of a Salesman in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford until Saturday 2 May while in the Swan Theatre Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta continues until Tuesday 8 September.

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