What's on in the Midlands

Published: 10 February 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Hull Truck's Jane Eyre at Derby's Guildhall on Monday and Tuesday
Don Warrington and Gwen Taylor in Driving Miss Daisy at Coventry’s Belgrade from Monday until Saturday
Tara Fitzgerald (Hermione) and Adam Levy (Polixenes) in The Winter's Tale at Stratford until 23 February Credit: Sheila Burnett

Hull Truck tours Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre to Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Monday and Tuesday.

David Esbjornson’s award-winning production of Driving Miss Daisy, featuring Gwen Taylor and Don Warrington, motors to Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Imitating the Dog and Pete Brooks take two world premieres, The Zero Hour and 6 Degrees Below the Horizon, to Axis Arts Centre, Crewe on Tuesday.

John Godber’s new comedy Losing the Plot visits Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

A co-production between Kneehigh and West Yorkshire Playhouse, Steptoe and Son is at the Curve Theatre, Leicester from Tuesday until Saturday.

Keith Jack takes the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Grand, Wolverhampton from Tuesday until Saturday.

Synchronizing “live music, performance and storytelling with stunning films and animation”, The Animals and Children Took to the Streets is a 1927 presentation at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.

Audiences at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal will have the time of their life when Dirty Dancing visits from Tuesday until Saturday, 2 March.

Gilbert and Sullivan Abridged “brings you as much fun, zaniness and humour as can be found while performing all 14 operettas in 90 hilarious, topsy-turvy minutes” at Derby’s Assembly Rooms on Wednesday.

Ken Lukowiak, who fought as an infantryman in the Falklands War, will perform a one-man show about his experiences during the conflict, A Soldier’s Song, at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Wednesday.

The Stage Left and Stage Right Senior Palace youth theatre companies stage Port Manteau by Andy Dobb at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday.

Tall Stories Theatre Company brings Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffer’s sequel to life in The Gruffalo’s Child at Derngate, Northampton on Wednesday and Thursday.

Adaire to Dance presents a “triple-bill performance demonstrating the diversity of contemporary dance, incorporating humour, film and pure movement”, in 3Fold at Buxton Opera House on Friday.

Nottingham Arts Theatre hosts The Fabulous Ceri Dupree Show on Friday and Saturday.

Birmingham Royal Ballet stages the UK première performances of David Bintley’s Aladdin at Birmingham Hippodrome from Friday until Saturday 23 February.

The Russian State Ballet and Orchestra of Siberia visits Wolverhampton Grand with Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker next Sunday, Coppelia by Delibes on Monday, 18 February and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake on Tuesday 19 February.

Alan Ayckbourn’s Joking Apart—the first Ayckbourn Nottingham Playhouse has produced in more than a decade—continues until Saturday.

Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic continues to stage Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads—with Conrad Nelson in A Chip in the Sugar, Roberta Kerr in Cream Cracker under the Settee and Hazel Maycock in Lady of Letters—until Saturday.

Laurie Sansom’s last production for Northampton Royal and Derngate before he leaves to head up the National Theatre of Scotland, Willy Russell’s One for the Road continues on the Royal stage until Saturday 23 February.

Gogol’s comic masterpiece Marriage continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade until Saturday 23 February.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Tara Fitzgerald continues in The Winter’s Tale until Saturday 23 February; in the Swan The Orphan of Zhao, sometimes referred to as the Chinese Hamlet and tracing its origins to the 4th century BC, continues until Thursday 28 March, Ian McDiarmid takes the title role in Mark Ravenhill’s new translation of Brecht's A Life of Galileo until Saturday 30 March while the world première of Adrian Mitchell’s adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov also continues until 30 March.

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