Midlands productions

Published: 31 August 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Wuthering Heights at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton
The Kite Runner at Nottingham Playhouse
Arden of Faversham in The Swan Theatre, Stratford Credit: Manuel Harlan

Female impersonator Ceri Dupree pays homage to some of his favourite ladies in Fit for a Queen at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Chapterhouse Theatre tours Emily Bronte’s classic love story Wuthering Heights to the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Thursday.

Cameron Mackintosh and Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of Barnum, which features Brian Conley in the title role, tries to become the greatest show on earth at Leicester’s Curve from Friday until Saturday 13 September.

Celebrating both the rich history of Ireland as well as the art of Irish dance, Rhythm of the Dance leaps into Stoke’s Regent Theatre on Saturday.

Matthew Spangler’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s international best-selling novel The Kite Runner continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.

Wicked, which has only one date in the Midlands on its first UK tour, continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.

The world première of Nicholas Wright’s stage adaptation of Pat Barker’s World War I novel Regeneration continues at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate until Saturday 20 September.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Two Gentlemen of Verona continues until Thursday and Henry IV Parts I and II continue until Saturday while in the Swan Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl continues until Tuesday 30 September, Arden of Faversham continues until Thursday 2 October and John Webster’s revenge tragedy The White Devil continues until Saturday 29 November.

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