Midlands productions

Published: 14 February 2016
Reporter: Steve Orme

Any Means Necessary at Nottingham Playhouse Credit: Robert Day
balletLORENT’S Snow White at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry Credit: Bill Cooper

Bill Kenwright’s new ensemble The Classic Thriller Theatre Company takes its first production, Rehearsal for Murder by Richard Levinson and William Link, which features Robert Daws, Amy Robbins, Susan Penhaligon and Robert Duncan, to the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Monday until Saturday.

Lyn Paul plays Mrs Johnstone in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

Birmingham Stage Company presents the world première of David Walliams’s novel Gangsta Granny at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.

Emma Reeves’s adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s novel Hetty Feather visits Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Saturday.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole promises A Night to Remember at Derngate, Northampton on Tuesday and Stoke’s Regent Theatre on Sunday.

All-male Shakespeare company Propeller takes its 60-minute version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for young audiences, Pocket Dream, to Lichfield Garrick on Wednesday and Thursday.

Matthew Bugg’s World War II show Miss Nightingale - The Musical, a “feel good show about love, loss and hope”, stops off at Buxton Opera House from Wednesday until Saturday.

In a programme of one-act ballets, Birmingham Royal Ballet focuses on works by one of England’s most influential choreographers, Sir Frederick Ashton, when it performs The Dream and A Month in the Country at Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday.

Theatre-Rites and 20 Stories High join forces to create a “mash-up of hip-hop, theatre and puppetry” in The Broke ‘N’ Beat Collective at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Thursday.

balletLORENT’s dance theatre adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow White, co-produced by Northern Stage and retold by Carol Ann Duffy, will be staged at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.

A woman private investigator is asked to look for a group of missing children in imitating the dog’s The Train, which takes an audience of 12 on a journey in a moving auditorium at The Castle, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire from Friday until Sunday.

The world premiere of a fictional account of “one of the biggest police scandals of all time”, Kefi Chadwick’s Any Means Necessary, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.

Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre stages in its B2 auditorium a new production of Molière’s rarely performed romantic comedy The Sisterhood which continues until Saturday.

Audiences at Wolverhampton Grand won’t be able to take their eyes off the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons musical Jersey Boys which continues until Saturday.

Peter Whelan’s play The Herbal Bed which explores the secret life of Shakespeare’s daughter continues at Northampton Royal and Derngate until Saturday 27 February.

Northern Broadsides’ new version of William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives, featuring its artistic director Barrie Rutter as Sir John Falstaff, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 27 February.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan share the roles of Faustus and Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus which continues until Thursday 4 August.

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