Midlands productions

Published: 31 July 2016
Reporter: Steve Orme

Cats at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham Credit: Alessandro Pinna
Peter Pan in Scarlet at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Credit: Geraint Lewis
Ifan Meredith as Joe in Always Orange in The Other Place, Stratford Credit: Richard Lakos

The Classic Thriller Season at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal continues with House Guest by Francis Durbridge from Tuesday until Saturday.

Don’t Go into the Cellar! invites you to have Tea With Oscar Wilde in which a chat show is reimagined for the Victorian age in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Thursday.

Madcap Theatre Productions combines “comedy, music, dance, stage combat and physicality with the original script” in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Saturday.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats continues at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham until Saturday.

Lichfield Garrick’s first community musical, The Hired Man, based on Melvyn Bragg’s novel, continues at the Garrick until Saturday.

Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre continues to present the world première of Peter Pan in Scarlet, the sequel to J M Barrie’s Peter Pan, until Saturday.

Alexandra Burke plays Deloris Van Cartier in the national tour of Leicester Curve’s new production of the musical comedy Sister Act, directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, which continues at Curve until Saturday 13 August.

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; and in The Other Place, the RSC’s new studio theatre, Making Mischief, a “festival of bold and thought-provoking new plays”, is under way with Alice Birch’s Revolt. She said. Revolt again.which continues until Saturday 13 August and Always Orange by Fraser Grace and Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier by Somalia Seaton, both continuing until Saturday 27 August.

The Abba musical Mamma Mia! continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 3 September.

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