What's on in the Midlands

Published: 20 January 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Abigail's Party is at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday Credit: Catherine Ashmore
OperaUpClose's La Boheme is at Coventry’s Belgrade on Tuesday
Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced visits Buxton Opera House from Tuesday until Saturday

Lindsay Posner’s revival of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party which recently ran in the West End tours to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday.

Moscow City Ballet visits Northampton’s Derngate with Sleeping Beauty from Monday until Wednesday and The Nutcracker from Thursday until Saturday.

Shakespeare 4 Kidz marks its third consecutive year at Wolverhampton Grand with a performance of The Tempest on Tuesday.

Winner of the 2011 Olivier Award for best opera, OperaUpClose’s La Bohème, Robin Norton-Hale’s new English version of Puccini’s masterpiece, is on the main stage at Coventry’s Belgrade on Tuesday while The Rat Pack is Back on Saturday; in the B2 auditorium Hoopla Productions’ family music show The Night Queen, inspired by Mozart’s The Magic Flute, continues until Saturday.

Ian Dickens Productions stages Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced, featuring Dean Gaffney, Gemma Bissix and Katy Manning, at Buxton Opera House from Tuesday until Saturday.

Opus Theatre Company stages John Christopher-Wood’s Elsie and Norm’s Macbeth in the Met Studio at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.

Players from the National Theatre will perform excerpts from Alecky Blythe’s London Road, which documents the events of 2006 when the bodies of five women were discovered in Ipswich, at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Friday.

Brian Conley continues in “Britain’s biggest pantomime”, Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates, at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday.

Roald Dahl's first children's book James and the Giant Peach continues at Birmingham Old Rep until Saturday 2 February.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, The Orphan of Zhao continues in the Swan until Thursday 28 March while the world premiere of Adrian Mitchell’s adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov continues until Saturday 30 March.

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