Midlands productions

Published: 21 September 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Snow White at Lichfield Garrick
Be Here Now in Derby Theatre’s Studio
Time and the Conways at Nottingham Playhouse Credit: Robert Day

Stephen Jones and Conor Delaney appear in Marie Jones’s Stones in his Pockets, with original director Ian McElhinney at the helm, which tours to Leicester’s Curve on Monday and Tuesday.

The National Theatre's award-winning comedy, Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, directed by Nicholas Hytner and featuring Gavin Spokes, Shaun Williamson and Emma Barton, visits Northampton’s Royal and Derngate from Monday until Saturday.

Robert Daws, Dawn Steele, Gray O’Brien, Thomas Howes and Simona Armstrong try to solve The Perfect Murder, the comedy thriller from best-selling author Peter James, at Buxton Opera House from Monday until Saturday.

The Nottingham Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner tours to Birmingham REP from Monday until Saturday 4 October.

Analogue takes its new show Stowaway, the story of a man from India who freezes to death in the wheel arch of a Boeing 777, written and directed by Hannah Barker and Lewis Hetherington, to The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Tuesday.

Audiences can look forward to the time of their life when Dirty Dancing – the Classic Story on Stage visits Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday 11 October.

The National Theatre’s production of War Horse gallops into Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday 11 October.

“Throwing out the theatre rulebook”, Zest Theatre invites partygoers to have complete freedom of movement to eat, drink, look through the bookshelves, join in the games and make as much noise as they like in Gatecrash, written and directed by Toby Ealden, which starts a national tour at Lincoln Drill Hall on Thursday and Friday.

Internationally renowned choreographer Barry McGrath propels Snow White to a new generation when Vienna Festival Ballet stages its new production of the timeless fairy tale at Lichfield Garrick from Thursday until Sunday.

Be Here Now, “an irreverently comic yet tender look at how music seeps into and influences our lives”, is a TOOT production in Derby Theatre Studio on Friday.

African songs, western music and contemporary ballet “knit into a tapestry of sound and textures” in INALA – A Zulu Ballet, with music by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Friday.

Tonya Joy Bolton explores one woman’s struggle to “remain holy despite being as horny as hell” in Holy and Horny in Derby Theatre’s Studio on Saturday.

A script-in-hand performance of Rob Swinton’s ”comedy of bad manners” Faction or Nobody’s Shot the Secretary of State for Education, in which the audience is invited to leave feedback and “pay what you can”, will be held at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham on Saturday.

The UK première of Peter Arnott’s World War II musical drama Propaganda Swing continues on Coventry Belgrade’s main stage until Saturday.

J B Priestley’s Time and the Conways continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.

Mid Wales Opera performs Bizet’s Carmen in English in a translation by Rory Bremner at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.

The national tour of Shrek the Musical continues at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal until Sunday.

After winning the dance award at the Buxton Fringe 2014 with Dotdotdot Flamenco Company, dancer Noemí Luz takes her own trio, the Noemí Luz Flamenco Group, to the Coach House Studios, Wirksworth, Derbyshire on Sunday and Monday.

Roy Williams has brought Sophocles' Antigone up to date in a re-telling of the Greek tragedy which continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday 4 October (hear director Marcus Romer talk about this in our podcast).

Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic continues to stage Richard Eyre’s new version of Ibsen's Ghosts until Saturday 4 October.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Swan Theatre 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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