Midlands productions

Published: 1 July 2018
Reporter: Steve Orme

Matilda the Musical at Birmingham Hippodrome Credit: Manuel Harlan
The Snail and the Whale at Malvern Theatres
Rhodri Miles as Dylan Thomas in Clown in the Moon at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre

The Bath Theatre Royal production of Simon Reade’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain featuring Robert Powell and Liza Goddard is unveiled at Leicester’s Curve from Monday until Saturday.

A cast of 24 sails into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham in Titanic the Musical from Monday until Saturday.

Combining dance with Indian classical literature and contemporary British poetry, Plurality of Abhinaya “engages the emotions of love” in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Tuesday.

Tall Stories is in the Midlands with adaptations of two Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s books, The Snail and the Whale at Malvern Theatres on Tuesday and Wednesday and The Gruffalo’s Child at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Thursday.

Creatio Arts considers itself at home at Derby Theatre with Lionel Bart's Oliver! from Tuesday until Friday.

The Royal Shakespeare Company production inspired by Roald Dahl’s book Matilda the Musical goes to the top of the class at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday 8 September.

Sharing Joy, a show especially created for those living with dementia and their carers, “using music, dance, nostalgia, masks, puppetry and laughter to bring pleasure and meaning to everyone involved”, is a Vamos Theatre presentation in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Thursday.

Rhodri Miles plays Dylan Thomas in Gwynne Edwards’s Clown in the Moon, a new play about the life and career of the celebrated poet, in the MET Studio at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday.

TABS Productions tries not to lose its head when it presents Louise Page's adaptation of Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from Friday until Sunday.

Elmhurst Ballet School, the associate school of Birmingham Royal Ballet, showcases new commissions and premières by choreographers, the school’s artistic staff and students in Summer Creations—An Evening of New Work in the school’s studio theatre at Edgbaston, Birmingham from Friday until Friday 13 July.

Northampton Royal and Derngate’s Youth Theatre and Young Company delve into the jazz age to explore the dark and dangerous 1920s American Prohibition era in Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone on the Royal stage from Saturday 7 until Sunday 15 July.

National Youth Dance Company returns to Leicester’s Curve to present a new work created by guest artistic director Sharon Eyal, Used to be Blonde, on Sunday.

Stafford Festival Shakespeare’s 2018 production Macbeth continues in the open air at Stafford Castle until Saturday 14 July.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack head the cast of Macbeth which continues until Tuesday 18 September, and Romeo and Juliet continues until Saturday 21 September; and in the Swan Theatre, John Webster’s blood-soaked revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi continues until Friday 3 August and Sam Kenyon’s new musical Miss Littlewood, which charts the emotional highs and lows of Joan Littlewood’s journey from the East End to the West End, continues until Saturday 4 August (press night Tuesday 3 July).

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