What's on in the Midlands

Published: 10 March 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

The Woyzeck at Buxton Opera House on Monday Credit: Richard Davenport
Rutherford and Son at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic from Tuesday until Saturday Credit: Nobby Clark
Wasted at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Wednesday
Ian McDiarmid as Galileo and Matthew Aubrey as Andrea in A Life of Galileo which continues in The Swan, Stratford until 30 March Credit: Ellie Kurttz

Based on the true story of a man who murdered his wife for her infidelity, Georg Büchner’s unfinished play Woyzeck is reworked as The Woyzeck, a co-production between Theatrical Niche and Acting Like Mad, at Buxton Opera House on Monday.

Showcasing the best youth talent from schools and community groups across Derbyshire and Derby city, Interface 13 dances into Derby Theatre on Monday.

A “strange love story in a virtual world, powerful, witty and visually stunning”, Consumed is Border Crossings's new multimedia production which tours to The Drum, Birmingham on Monday and Tuesday.

Wolverhampton’s Arena Theatre hosts London Classic Theatre with The Importance of Being Earnest on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Northern Broadsides visits Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic with Blake Morrison’s edited version of Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son from Tuesday until Saturday.

African-American playwright Don Evans’s comedy on class in 1970s Philadelphia, One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show tours to Coventry’s Belgrade from Tuesday until Saturday.

Paul-Michael Jones and Jill Winternitz will have the time of their lives as Dirty Dancing sways into Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday, 30 March.

Paines Plough presents Kate Tempest's Wasted, a “day glo trip through the parks and raves and cafes of south London where life is what you make it”, at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Wednesday.

Toyah Wilcox is one of the Hormonal Housewives at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham on Wednesday.

Mansfield Palace Theatre welcomes “Dublin’s number one award-winning show” The Irish House Party on Wednesday.

Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, starring Earl Carpenter as the Phantom and Katie Hall as Christine, visits Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday, 4 May.

New Old Friends sing Silly Songs of Shakespeare at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Thursday.

National Dance Company Wales celebrates its 30th birthday with a triple bill of Dream by Christopher Bruce, Angelin Preljocaj’s Noces and Virtual Descent by Eleesha Drennan at Derby Theatre on Thursday.

Black Box Theatre Company performs an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello in the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio, Buxton from Thursday until Saturday.

The studio at Derby Theatre hosts Jim Cartwright’s Two, a student production, from Thursday until Saturday.

Mansfield Palace Theatre stages An Evening of Burlesque on Friday.

BalletBoyz will première two dance pieces by celebrated choreographers Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett in The Talent 2013 at Leicester’s Curve on Friday and Saturday.

Madcap Theatre presents Little Grimley's Troubles (Tripled) in the Studio at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Saturday.

Frances Ruffelle continues in the title role in Pam Gems’s Piaf at Curve, Leicester until Saturday.

A reading by its author Michael Morpurgo with songs from John Tams and Barry Coope, War Horse the Concert gallops into Derby’s Assembly Rooms next Sunday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, 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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