Midlands productions

Published: 3 April 2016
Reporter: Steve Orme

Matthew Kelly in Toast at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham Credit: Oliver King
The Mousetrap at Lichfield Garrick Credit: Hugo Glendinning
The Girl Who Fell In Love With the Moon at mac birmingham

Matthew Kelly and Simon Greenall appear in Richard Bean’s Toast at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

Louise Jameson plays Mrs Boyle in the 60th anniversary tour of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at Lichfield Garrick from Monday until Saturday.

Duncan James is Tick in Priscilla Queen of the Desert – The Musical at Derngate, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.

Nikolai Foster’s new production of Annie featuring Birds of a Feather’sLesley Joseph as the tyrannical Miss Hannigan runs at Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.

Redhead Reach in association with Found Theatre continues to present Anne of Green Gables, a play with music by Collene Louisa Webb, adapted from L M Montgomery's novel, at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby until Wednesday.

Anne Dalton’s musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield will be staged at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from Wednesday until Saturday.

A new interactive comedy from Liz John and Julia Wright which features Caroline Nash and Oli Leonard and is set in a call centre, Calling for Help! aims to raise a laugh at mac birmingham on Thursday and Friday.

Tony Jameson wonders if he could have achieved more if he had not spent the past 20 years playing video games in Football Manager Ruined My Life in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Friday.

A celebration of the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Let’s Hang On returns to The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Friday.

A “Tim Burton-esque patchwork of puppetry, poetry, movement and live music stitched together with The Human Zoo's explosive visual imagination”, The Girl Who Fell In Love With the Moon visits mac birmingham on Saturday.

Lichfield-based actress Rebecca Newman performs her play The Enduring Romance of Cathy and Heathcliff at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.

Performers aged 12 to 18 have formed Core Company to present Bryony Lavery’s It Snows as part of the National Theatre’s Connections Festival at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Saturday.

A new production of the Sherman Brothers’ musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang continues at the Regent Theatre, Stoke until Saturday.

Inspired by writer Jonathan Coe’s school days in Birmingham and adapted for the stage by Richard Cameron, The Rotters’ Club features a cast of young performers drawn from Birmingham REP’s youth theatres and continues on the REP’s main stage until Saturday.

Easter pantomime Beauty and the Beast featuring Keith Chegwin, Anne Hegerty from ITV’s The Chase and Basil Brush will be staged at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Sunday.

Michael Pennington takes the lead role in William Shakespeare’s King Lear which continues at Northampton Royal until Saturday 23 April.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Paapa Essiedu plays the lead role in Hamlet which continues until Saturday 13 August while in the Swan Theatre Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, which features David Threlfall in the title role and Rufus Hound as Sancho Panza, continues until Saturday 21 May, and Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan share the roles of Faustus and Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus which continues until Thursday 4 August.

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