Birmingham Stage Company takes the world première of David Walliams’s Gangsta Granny to Derngate, Northampton from Tuesday until Saturday while on the Royal stage the company’s youth theatre and young company performs Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, also from Tuesday until Saturday.
A new musical comedy will be created from scratch when Showstopper! The Improvised Musical visits the outdoor arena at mac birmingham on Friday.
Madcap Theatre Productions discover there’s Much Ado About Nothing at Mary Arden's Farm, Stratford on Friday and Saturday.
Here to There Productions presents Bull by Mike Bartlett at the Coach House, Malvern, Worcestershire on Friday and Saturday.
Birmingham’s annual independent theatre festival, Birmingham Fest, gets under way on Friday with a “diva double bill” from Alex Brockie Productions of An Audience with Gorgeous George and Too Tall to Tribute? at the Blue Orange Theatre, with the festival running until 31 July.
Frank Bramwell’s new play King Lear (Alone), which dispenses with the other 29 characters in the original and analyses its main themes using Shakespeare’s words, featuring Bob Young as Lear, can be seen at St Paul's Church, St Paul's Square, Birmingham on Saturday.
Core Dancers, members of Northamptonshire venue The Core at Corby Cube’s young dancer development course, present an insight into the life of contemporary dance in Assemble at The Core on Saturday.
Singin’ In The Rain, a co-production between Staffordshire’s New Vic Theatre, Octagon Theatre Bolton and Salisbury Playhouse, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.
A “high-octane musical version of Shakespeare’s witty battle of the sexes featuring well-known UK hits from the best music decades”, Oddsocks’ Much Ado About Nothing takes to the outdoor arena at mac birmingham on Saturday while on Sunday the company performs a musical adaptation of Macbeth.
Split Second Productions stages Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire—where it was reportedly first performed at the wedding of Lord Thomas Berkeley and Elizabeth Carey in 1596—from Sunday until Wednesday 27 July.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford: in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Paapa Essiedu plays Hamlet which continues until Saturday 13 August and Gillian Bevan is the first woman to take on the role of British ruler Cymbeline which continues until Saturday 15 October; in the Swan Theatre, Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan share the roles of Faustus and Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus which continues until Thursday 4 August while Ben Jonson’s satire The Alchemist continues until Saturday 6 August.
Abba fans will meet their Waterloo when Mamma Mia! continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 3 September.