Harrogate Theatre News

Far Gone, written and performed by John Rwothomack, runs at The Studio Theatre, Sheffield Thurs 17 - Sat 26 February.

UK Theatre is launching Love Your Local Theatre, a new campaign encouraging the public to support their local theatres as they begin to recover from the impact of Covid. Over 100 theatres UK-wide have come together to join in on the effort and offer the biggest ever 2-for-1 ticket offer to National Lottery players who attend a show during the month of March.

Award-winning Proteus Theatre will embark on a UK tour this Spring with their lauded adaptation of Angela Carter’s collection of short stories The Bloody Chamber (and Other Stories). An erotic, heady and feminist re-telling of Angela Carter's dark fantasy fairy tales, the production is performed using aerial circus, visual physical theatre, gothic design and a haunting soundscape. 

Zog and his crew are flying back to the stage with a brand-new adventure next month! Based on the bestselling sequel by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Zog and the Flying Doctors will premiere at Rose Theatre, Kingston from Thursday 10 to Saturday 19 February 2022 prior to a Spring/Summer UK Tour.

As part of its 50th anniversary year, Sheffield Theatres presents Far Gone, in co-production with new theatre company Roots Mbili Theatre. In the Studio Theatre from Thursday 17 – Saturday 26 February 2022, Far Gone is written and performed by John Rwothomack, a member of the inaugural cohort of The Bank, Sheffield Theatres' talent development hub.

Following its sold-out West End summer season at Theatre Royal Haymarket, the Olivier Award nominated stage production of The Tiger Who Came to Tea returns for another major UK tour this year. A musical play adapted and directed by David Wood OBE, based on the classic tale by the late Judith Kerr OBE, The Tiger Who Came to Tea will open at Theatre Royal Brighton on 2 February with tour dates currently booked until 1 September 2022.

Casting has been announced for a new production of Fatal Attraction, based on the classic Paramount Pictures Corporation film. Kym Marsh * (ITV's Coronation Street) will perform the iconic role of Alex Forrest, Oliver Farnworth (ITV's Coronation Street) her lover, Dan Gallagher and Susie Amy (ITV's Footballers' Wives) his wife, Beth.

One of the most exciting rising stars on the comedy circuit, Tez Ilyas, is set to embark on a nationwide tour later this year with a brand new and highly anticipated stand up show, ‘The Vicked Tour’.

PlayWell Productions, Team Angelica and Epicene today announce the full cast for Very Special Guest Star which opens at Omnibus Theatre on 25 November, with previews from 23 November, and runs until 12 December.

Following an in-person run at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, writer and performer Daniel Nicholas’ Eugene embarks on a limited UK tour this Autumn. Using integrated captioning via The Difference Engine, every performance is deaf-friendly, and allows the audience to choose one of two different versions of narrative. 

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Nick Lane’s thrilling adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark psychological fantasy, visits Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre next month.

Duncan is well-known as a member of pop group Blue. The band formed in 2001 and have had 40 number one singles worldwide, three number one UK albums and sales of over 16 million records. They took a break in 2005, before reforming to represent the UK at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest.  

Following being filmed and streamed in 2020, this thrilling adaptation by Nick Lane of Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark psychological fantasy is touring the country from September 2021 – May 2022 with over 100 dates, immersing audiences in the myth and mystery of 19th century London.  

Zog and the Flying Doctors follows their smash-hit adaptation of Zog (on tour now) and reunites director Emma Kilbey and composer and lyricist Joe Stilgoe for this truly modern take on the classic fairy tale.

Brand new family theatre show, Dragons and Mythical Beasts, written by Derek Bond, today announces casting for its forthcoming UK Tour and summer season at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London.

James Quaife Productions today announces that the world première production of Paul Harvard's debut play GHBoy is now available to stream online via Vimeo on Demand. Filmed on 15 December 2020, the day before a lockdown cut short the production's run at Charing Cross Theatre, the recorded version will be available from 1 March.

Last March, the celebrated paranormalist sensation that is Clinton Baptiste was halfway through his sell out celestial tour of the UK when Covid19 struck.  Who could have foreseen that?  Today it is announced that next autumn he will return to the road with a brand-new show – CLINTON BAPTISTE: STRATOSPHERIC.

James Quaife Productions today announces the world première of Paul Harvard's debut play GHBoy - opening at the Charing Cross Theatre on 10 November 2020, with previews from 4 November, and runs until 28 November.

Blackeyed Theatre have today announced that their highly acclaimed production of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's novella by Nick Lane, will be performed to a socially-distanced audience at the Wilde Theatre in Bracknell, Berkshire, on Friday 18 September and be available to watch LIVE online and on demand.

Fewer Shakespearean characters have caused as much uncertainty as Hamlet's mother, Gertrude: a side-lined female in a canonical story; a shadowy icon of mid-life sexuality; a fearless woman whose power was consistently undermined by the men around her. 400 years since Hamlet was written, storyteller and Shakespeare's Globe consultant Debs Newbold imagines what her story would have been and asks what a?" if anything a?" has changed since her creation.