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ThisEgg's Edinburgh Festival Fringe-First winner dressed., which celebrates trauma, the healing power of clothes, and the pleasures of female friendship, calls into HOME in Manchester on Tuesday 4 - Saturday 8 June. All five performances will be caption subtitled,

This year, Pleasance Theatre Trust will be supporting a record number of artists and companies at all stages of their careers through the investment of over £140,000 (both in-kind and direct financial support) through its Pleasance Futures programme. Recognising how important it is to help open the door for talent, Pleasance's major investment reflects its core beliefs in creating opportunities, supporting ambition, encouraging excellence and building reputations. These 20 productions go on-sale today exclusively via The Pleasance.

Norfolk & Norwich Festival has today announced the full programme for its 2019 Festival (10 - 26 May). The vast and wide-ranging programme showcases artists from around the world and the region presenting a huge variety of work and events throughout the city and around the county, which spans performance, theatre, music, visual arts, literature, circus, outdoor and family events, includes world and UK premieres, one-off spectaculars, and a host of free events across the Festival.  

ThisEgg will be bringing their new production dressed. to the Tron this March after a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Weathervane Announces Patchwork Players 2019 Lineup as part of their 54th Season. Producing Artistic Director Ethan Paulini and Intern Program Director Marisa Kirby have announced the 2019 Patchwork Players Season. These musicals will feature the Weathervane Intern Company.

dressed. premiered at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe to critical acclaim, winning a Scotsman Fringe First as well as a nomination for ThisEgg for Total Theatre Awards' Emerging Company 2018. The intimate show created by four school friends is to tour the UK, using storytelling, live sewing, music, dance and clowning to turn a traumatic experience into something beautiful and resilient; a show about reclaiming one's body, female friendship and the integrity of clothes to identity.

As Scotland's new writing theatre, the Traverse has been an incubator for brand new plays since it was founded in 1963, spotlighting the powerful stories, innovation and talent in Scotland, while launching the careers of many renowned writers, actors and directors. They have now revealed that their January-April 2019 season is a celebration of this - with three home-grown productions returning for a special run, before travelling worldwide.

Merrigong Theatre Company has revealed its thrilling 2019 Season at a special launch event held at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre (IPAC). The 2019 season will spoil audiences with an array of productions ranging from exhilarating mainstage plays, to delightful children's shows, acclaimed music theatre, world-class comedy and ground-breaking dance.

With a full programme for 2019 set to be announced in February, Norfolk & Norwich Festival have today announced some of the first shows to go on sale for next year's Festival. The 2019 Festival will once again take place over 17 days, this year from 10 - 26 May, with artists from around the world and the region presenting a huge variety of work and events throughout the city and around the county. Last year around 60,000 people attended the Festival's multi-artform programme of music, theatre, literature, visual arts, circus, dance and outdoor arts across East England.

Artistic Director Mike Tweddle has today confirmed that Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatres has reached the campaign target for its £1.6million transformation. Construction began in January 2018 and, after a year of fundraising, is set to be completed in October.

60ft whales, comedy, award-winning theatre and a 5-day free-to-view music programme kicks off today in Carlisle with music headliners Complete Stone Roses and Holy Moly and The Crackers at the 3rd edition of Carlisle Fringe Festival which runs 24 August - 2 September 2018.

60ft whales, comedy, award-winning theatre and a 5-day free-to-view music programme kicks off today in Carlisle with music headliners Complete Stone Roses and Holy Moly and The Crackers at the 3rd edition of Carlisle Fringe Festival which runs 24 August - 2 September 2018.

Following their smash-hit run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017, ThisEgg have extended the run of their award-winning comic family show enjoyable for everyone aged five and above, tackling climate change, the ecosystem and the disappearance of bees. Through a playful combination of storytelling, clowning, original live music and audience interaction, ThisEgg, invite you to save the world - one bee at a time.

What Josie wants for her mother, and Steffi wants for her daughter is the same - a better world. ThisEgg founder Josie Dale-Jones collaborates for the first time with her parents, Hoipolloi Theatre co-founders Stefanie Mueller and Shon Dale-Jones, in a joyous celebration of equality and liberation between a mother and her grown up daughter.

Today one of the UK's friendliest cities unveiled the third edition of one of the UK's fastest growing cultural festivals, Carlisle Fringe, which takes place from 24th August to 2nd September.

After successful UK and international tours taking in a host of high-profile London venues including the Barbican and the Royal Court, and a Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Shon Dale-Jones, Artistic Director of Hoipolloi Theatre, performs two shows at HOME, The Duke (Wed 6/Thu 7 June) and Me & Robin Hood (Fri 8/Sat 9 June).

The Pleasance is a place for experiences and, this year, marks Pleasance's boldest programme yet. From the funny to the sorrowful, the political to the magical, the Pleasance has always been a place for incredible stories and 2018 takes this tradition to a new level.

New Diorama Theatre and Underbelly are proud to announce the winners of the Untapped Edinburgh competition to bring three theatre companies to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

A Chorus Line seems like catnip for any local company with a taste for musicals. It is a classic that has achieved iconic status in the years since its Broadway premiere in 1976; moreover, it is not only a show about show business but about the people who live for it: the gypsy dancers who show up in the hundreds for each cattle call audition, hoping to land a job in the chorus line.

Two theatre companies that believe young children are more than ready to be entertained by shows that look at serious global issues are scheduled to appear at Greenwich Theatre this April.