What's on in the Midlands

Published: 5 February 2022
Reporter: Steve Orme

Thom Tuck and Dennis Herdman in The Play What I Wrote at Malvern Theatres Credit: Manuel Harlan
Connor Curren in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham Credit: Brinkhoff Moegenburg
Niall Ransome, Jake Ferretti, and Serena Manteghi in The Hound of the Baskervilles at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Credit: Pamela Raith

The Birmingham REP production of Sean Foley and Hamish McColl’s The Play What I Wrote tours to Malvern Theatres from Monday until Saturday.

Part of LGBTQ+ History Month, The Dan Daw Show is a “peep into the shiny and sweaty push-pull of living with shame while bursting with pride” at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Tuesday.

Alan Riley and James Greaves appear in full-mask theatre company Vamos’ Dead Good which visits Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Ten years after it originated at the National Theatre, Simon Stephens’s adaptation of Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time tours to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.

A “celebration of how music brings people together, no matter what life throws at them”, Extended Play's Donuts, a full-length dance piece by Jamaal Burkmar, is on the menu at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday.

A “rollercoaster ride through the golden age of rock and roll and pop”, That’ll Be The Day which is celebrating its 35th anniversary has plenty to sing about at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles gets a “brilliantly farcical overhaul” in Steven Canny and John Nicholson’s adaptation for Peepolykus which tours to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday while in the Belgrade’s B2 auditorium queer playwright Tom Wright’s “hard-hitting and hilarious” play I Ain’t Dumb gets its première from Wednesday until Saturday.

The Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks makes its world première as a stage musical at Curve, Leicester from Wednesday until Sunday.

Three “fearless” actors from the Market Theatre Company “corrupt another fairy-tail classic beyond recognition” in the adult panto Little Red Riding at the Winding Wheel, Chesterfield on Friday.

Simon Reade’s adaptation of the Michael Morpurgo novel Private Peaceful takes to the Nottingham Playhouse stage from Saturday until Saturday 26 February before a national tour.

Northern Broadsides continues to perform its 30th anniversary production, Shakespeare’s As You Like It, at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 26 February.

Michael Balogun and Akiya Henry play Benedick and Beatrice in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Much Ado About Nothing which continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford until Saturday 12 March.

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