Midlands productions

Published: 17 January 2016
Reporter: Steve Orme

Jason Donovan in Priscilla Queen of the Desert – The Musical at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
The Snowman at Birmingham REP Credit: Alastair Muir
Crazy Glue at mac birmingham and Derby Theatre Credit: Alex Brenner

Jason Donovan plays Tick in Priscilla Queen of the Desert—The Musical at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

OperaUpClose returns to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry with its new English version of Bizet’s opera Carmen on Tuesday.

Nottingham’s Theatre Royal, which hosted the world première of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap in 1952 before it went to the West End, welcomes the return of the thriller from Tuesday until Saturday.

Lucy O’Byrne from BBC One’s The Voice and Scottish actor Gray O’Brien make their musical theatre debuts in Bill Kenwright’s The Sound of Music which visits the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Tuesday until Saturday.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company invites you to enjoy a fast-paced romp through all the Bard’s plays in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.

Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre presents Dick Whittington and His Cat from Wednesday until Saturday.

The Birmingham REP production of The Snowman, based on the book by Raymond Briggs and featuring Howard Blake’s song "Walking in the Air", takes to the REP stage from Wednesday until Sunday, while in The Door Sarah Baker-Hamilton investigates what it means to be a woman in the 21st century in Lady Lust from Thursday until Saturday.

Single Shoe Productions follows “the comedic roller coaster of a couple’s romance as they move from the blossoming of first love through to the thornier terrain of married life” in Crazy Glue, which combines clowning, dance and mime, at mac birmingham on Thursday and Derby Theatre on Friday.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Anton and Erin find they have Just Gotta Dance at Derngate, Northampton on Thursday and Friday.

Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is set in modern-day Westminster in Opera Warwick and Music Centre’s production at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.

West End actors celebrate all things Broadway in Broadway and Beyond at Buxton Opera House on Friday while in the Pavilion Arts Centre Ava Hunt is Acting Alone in a “heart-breaking, witty and confrontational piece of theatre which asks whether we really stand up for what we believe in”.

Leo Burtin’s The Midnight Soup is on the menu in the Foyle Studio at mac birmingham on Saturday.

John Altman is Captain Hook and the Chuckle Brothers play Paul and Barry Smee in Peter Pan at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton which continues until Sunday.

A cast of 13 actor-musicians and 24 young performers continue in a new production of Robin Hood and Marian at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 30 January.

Marti Pellow, Julian Clary, Lee Mead, Matt Slack and Andrew Ryan head the cast of “the UK’s biggest pantomime” Aladdin, which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 31 January.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Swan Theatre Congreve’s Love for Love continues until Friday and plays in repertoire with Helen Edmundson's new play Queen Anne which continues until Saturday while in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Wendy and Peter Pan continues until Sunday 31 January.

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