Harrogate Theatre News

DeNada Dance Theatre, headed by artistic director and choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra, will tour its dance triple bill Ham and Passion between 2 October 2015 and 26 February 2016 (tour schedule included).

Kirsty Besterman, David Cardy, Amanda Hadingue, Adelle Leonce and Andy Rush will join the previously announced Sally Messham and Laura Rogers in Laura Wade's new adaptation of Sarah Waters' bestselling novel, Tipping the Velvet, directed by Lyndsey Turner. They will be supported by a young ensemble. Tipping the Velvet will open at the Lyric Hammersmith on 28 September 2015, with previews from 18 September.

Momentum Venues - a fresh venue for the Edinburgh Fringe announces its complete inaugural programme.

Following a successful Spring/Summer tour, London Classic Theatre's Artistic Director Michael Cabot today announces a 14-week extension of Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends, as part of the company's 15th Anniversary Season. In its most ambitious programme to date, the company will open a second leg of Absent Friends on 19 August 2015, followed by a 12-week UK & Ireland tour of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot from 9 September 2015. 

English Touring Opera's Autumn 2015 season, touring England this October and November, features three classics of French opera.

Following a critically acclaimed sold-out run last Christmas at the Young Vic in London, and then a West End transfer to the Trafalgar Studios, multi award-winning theatre company 1927 bring Golem, their visually arresting and satirical take on our misuse of technology, to HOME, Manchester's brand-new multi art-form venue, for autumn 2015.

Arts Council England has made a one off award of £826,786 to enable to launch of The Regional Touring Network. Facilitated by English Touring Theatre, The Regional Touring Network, a consortium of 9 regional venues and English Touring Theatre, will produce and tour high quality drama on the mid-scale to audiences throughout England, and by growing audiences through a comprehensive and effective audience development plan will deliver a legacy of sustainable touring.

Townsend Productions is delighted to announce that it will be staging their acclaimed two hander production of Stephen Lowe's version of Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists at The CLF Art Cafe in the Building Bussey Building from 5-31 October at 7.30pm.

Due to unprecedented demand, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap will continue its record-breaking UK tour with new dates in 2016. The beloved murder mystery will begin the 2016 leg of its tour at Brighton Theatre Royal on 25 January before visiting more than 25 further venues across the UK. Casting and booking information for 2016 will be announced in due course.

Following the critical success earlier in the year with their production of King Lear, the acclaimed Yorkshire theatre company Northern Broadsides will return to the works of Shakespeare this autumn with a daringly theatrical and heartbreakingly human new staging of his tale of reconciliation, love and forgiveness - The Winter's Tale.

Momentum Venues - a fresh venue for the Edinburgh Fringe announces its complete inaugural programme.

Award winning Proteus Theatre Company's production of 12.10.15 will play in the Playhouse at 2.20pm daily, an uncompromising and fiercely contemporary performance, following two women's lives that are defined by conflict. From today's Middle East to occupied Belgium 1915, this gripping one-woman show explores the female experience of warfare. With their slightly riskier title More C*NT that Can't: The Scandalous Life and Fast Times of Lord Byron in the studio at 8.30pm throughout the festival, hear Lord Byron's wild tales of debauchery and romance. Entertaining you with his wit and wisdom let the infamous Lord Byron charm you with his sheer charismatic force. Meet the man who invented celebrity culture in this unique evening performance.

Following a critically acclaimed run at the Young Vic, multi award-winning theatre company 1927 bring Golem, their visually arresting and satirical take on our misuse of technology, to Trafalgar Studios today, 14 April - 22 May with a Press Night on 22 April at 7pm.

Following a critically acclaimed run at the Young Vic, multi award-winning theatre company 1927 bring Golem, their visually arresting and satirical take on our misuse of technology, to Trafalgar Studios 14 April - 22 May with a Press Night on 22 April at 7pm.

Actor Charles Edwards, known for his roles in Batman Returns and Downton Abbey, will appear in Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansbury at the Ahmanson opening December 14. In our conversation he talks about the play, working with Miss Lansbury and other highlights of his career so far.

Banned by the Lord Chamberlain for its facetious and irreverent treatment of adultery, This Was A Man, a previously unseen play by Noel Coward, directed by actress Belinda Lang, opens for its long overdue UK professional premiere in a strictly limited three week season at the Finborough Theatre tonight, 15 July 2014 (Press Night: Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 7.30pm).

Banned by the Lord Chamberlain for its facetious and irreverent treatment of adultery, This Was A Man, a previously unseen play by Noel Coward, directed by actress Belinda Lang, opens for its long overdue UK professional premiere in a strictly limited three week season at the Finborough Theatre on Tuesday, 15 July 2014 (Press Night: Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 7.30pm).

Greenwich Theatre, one of London's foremost Off-West End theatres has over the past 5 years become one of the country's leading supporters of young and emerging theatre companies. With its Edinburgh profile rising year on year, five productions are supported at this year's festival across the Pleasance, C venues and Assembly.

The first UK production in nearly 100 years of St John Ervine's timeless tragedy John Ferguson opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four week run from today, 20 May 2014 - Saturday, 14 June 2014.