What's on in the Midlands

Published: 12 February 2022
Reporter: Steve Orme

Dead Good at the Roses Theatre, Tewksbury, Gloucestershire
Oliver Farnworth as Dan Gallagher and Kym Marsh as Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham Credit: Tristram Kenton
As You Like It at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Credit: Andrew Billington

The Birmingham REP production of Hamish McColl, Sean Foley and Eddie Braben’s homage to Morecambe and Wise, The Play What I Wrote, tours to Malvern Festival Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Alan Riley and James Greaves appear in full-mask theatre company Vamos’ Dead Good at the Roses Theatre, Tewksbury, Gloucestershire on Tuesday.

International ballet superstar Carlos Acosta’s Cuban company Acosta Danza dances into the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham with 100% Cuban on Tuesday and Wednesday while in the Theatre Royal Oliver Farnworth plays Dan Gallagher and Kym Marsh is Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction which runs from Tuesday until Saturday.

SIX the Musical which tells the story of the six wives of Henry VIII heads to Derngate, Northampton from Tuesday until Saturday.

Strange Futures explores possible futures for the world and all that inhabit it in The Endling at the Courtyard, Hereford on Wednesday.

“Part dance, part theatre, part fictionalised documentary, no-part costume drama”, Lost Dogs’ A Tale of Two Cities, a re-imagining of Charles Dickens's novel, can be seen in the theatre at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday and Thursday while Warwickshire writer and actor Hannah Kumari’s study of identity and the beautiful game, Eng-Er-Land, kicks off in the studio on Wednesday and Thursday.

Wendi Peters and Bill Ward lead the ensemble in Jonathan Clarkson’s adaptation of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at Derby Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday.

Crissy Rock, Rebecca Wheatley, Nicki French and Susie Fenwick set off on the high seas in Menopause the Musical 2—Cruising Through Menopause at the Winding Wheel, Chesterfield on Thursday.

Birmingham Stage Company presents Billionaire Boy, an adaptation of David Walliams's children's novel, at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.

Shereen Roushbaiani takes her one-woman show which “melds together the real-world events of Britney Spears’ turbulent life with the voice of a millennial superfan”, Saving Britney, to Lichfield Garrick on Friday.

Birmingham Royal Ballet performs the world première of Carlos Acosta's Don Quixote at Birmingham Hippodrome on Friday.

James Gaddas plays 15 characters in Bram Stoker’s Dracula at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield on Saturday.

“Documentary meets dance” in a “thought-provoking, timely and intimate new duet performance”, Casson and Friends’ PREPPERS, featuring Lucy Starkey and Mathew Winston, which tours to The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Saturday.

Simon Reade’s adaptation of the Michael Morpurgo novel Private Peaceful continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 26 February.

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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