Talking Scarlet takes two productions to Buxton Opera House: Stephen Kingsbury and Ben Sleep’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows from Monday until Wednesday and James Cawood’s latest thriller Death Toll from Thursday until Saturday.
The Classic Thriller Season at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal continues with John Goodrum’s play based on the mysteries of G K Chesterton, Father Brown—The Curse of the Invisible Man, from Tuesday until Saturday.
A new show “from the UK’s premier rock ‘n’ roll variety production” That’ll Be the Day expects to have theatregoers dancing in the aisles at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Friday.
Rachel Stratton, Matthew Forbes, Rob Gathercole, James Clifford and Rochelle Parry are the cast of Immersion Theatre’s new open-air adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, written and directed by James Tobias, at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Stratford on 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.
Madcap Theatre Productions tours Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing to Greyfriars Gardens, Worcester on Saturday and Sunday.
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; and in the RSC’s new studio theatre, The Other Place, Making Mischief, a “festival of bold and thought-provoking new plays”, is under way with Tanya Moodie performing Joanne on Thursday and Friday, Alice Birch’s Revolt. She said. Revolt again. continuing 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.