Innovative producing studio China Plate today announces its latest body of touring theatrical productions, in-development work and wider industry engagement for spring 2020 and beyond. The centrepiece of the new season is Wuthering Heights, a new co-production with Inspector Sands, Nuffield Southampton Theatres and the Royal & Derngate in Northampton in association with Oxford Playhouse.
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This April, Birmingham Hippodrome will be putting young people firmly centre stage with the regional premiere of Flower Cutters (17 & 18 April) performed by Birmingham Hippodrome's Musicals Young Company.
UK Champion Beatboxer Grace Savage, rapper/singer Dorcas Sebuyange, and performer puppeteers Clarke Joseph Edwards and Teele Uustani perform Theatre-Rites and 20 Stories High's Big Up! a?" a captivating hip hop puppetry show celebrating music, the importance of play, and the power of imagination.
SHIAMAK UK will present: bollywood DIVAS which will receive its world premiere at Birmingham Hippodrome on Saturday 4 April 2020.
Chichester Festival Theatre's Olivier Award-nominated production of Singin' in the Rain will embark on a major UK and Ireland tour in 2021, following a strictly limited five-week season at Sadler's Wells this Summer. Singin In The Rain opens at Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury on Thursday 21 January 2021.
Chichester Festival Theatre's Olivier Award-nominated production of Singin' in the Rain will come to Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday 6 - Saturday 10 April 2021. Tickets will go on sale this spring with an exclusive booking period for Birmingham Hippodrome Friends and Patron scheme members.
BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL will play a London season the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall from Wednesday 9 December 2020 to Sunday 10 January 2021, following a UK and Ireland Tour which opens at the Birmingham Hippodrome on 2 June 2020. Full tour dates in the listings below.
Back by popular demand, the Olivier and Tony Award-winning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will tour the UK and Ireland this Autumn. Launching at The Lowry, Salford, Curious Incident will then go on to visit to Sunderland, Bristol, Birmingham, Plymouth, Southampton, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Dublin, Belfast, Nottingham and Oxford, with further venues to be announced. Curious Incident will also play for a limited run in London at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in Brent - London Borough of Culture 2020 - following the acclaimed run of War Horse in 2019.
Back by popular demand, the Olivier and Tony Award-winning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will return to Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday 20 a?" Saturday 24 October 2020. Tickets will go on sale this spring with an exclusive booking period for Birmingham Hippodrome Friends and Patron scheme members.
Rising star Maiya Quansah-Breed will return to the scene of her run in SIX and join West End powerhouse Marisha Wallace on stage at London's Arts Theatre.
Aakash Odedra Company's next major project, Samsara, a collaboration between Odedra and Hu Shenyuan, will receive its European premiere at Birmingham Hippodrome on Thursday 11 June as part of Birmingham International Dance Festival.
Aakash Odedra Company's next major project, Samsara, a collaboration between Odedra and Hu Shenyuan, premieres in the UK at Birmingham International Dance Festival on 11 June. Odedra and Shenyuan are two of the world's finest exponents of culturally-specific dance forms from their countries of origin, India and China.
Hairspray is hitting the road again in 2020-21! It can now be confirmed that the tour will open at Leicester Curve on 20 August and will visit the following venues in 2020: Manchester Palace, Bradford Alhambra, Blackpool Winter Gardens, Aylesbury Waterside, Birmingham Hippodrome, Glasgow Kings Theatre, Northampton Royal and Derngate, Woking New Victoria, Liverpool Empire and Brighton Theatre Royal.
Sadler's Wells and Universal Music UK present Message In A Bottle, a new dance theatre production by Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Kate Prince, set to the music of 17-time Grammy Award-winning artist Sting.
Sadler's Wells and Universal Music UK present Message In A Bottle, a new dance theatre production by Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Kate Prince, set to the music of 17-time Grammy Award-winning artist Sting.
An additional preview is announced today for the upcoming Birmingham Hippodrome season of The Book of Mormon on Tuesday 3 March 2020 at 7.30pm. This will be the first chance for fans to see the much-anticipated Broadway smash hit in Birmingham.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh have released the first set of images from rehearsals for the brilliant original production of The Phantom of the Opera which comes to Birmingham Hippodrome from 29 July – 12 September 2020.
The UK and Ireland tour of The Phantom of the Opera opens at Curve, Leicester on 22 February 2020. Get a first look inside rehearsals!
Following its sell-out premiere at Birmingham Hippodrome and successful tour in 2018, Open Theatre Company's The Twisted Tale of Hansel and Gretel sets off on a brand new adventure this spring, returning to the Belgrade Theatre in March as part of its second tour.
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