Stephen Joseph News

David Hunter and Wendy Mae Brown will join the cast of the UK and Ireland Tour of the smash hit romantic musical comedy WAITRESS as 'Dr Pomatter' and 'Becky'.

Master impressionist Alistair McGowan is embarking on a brand new tour during Spring 2022 which combines his incredible comedy talents with his new-found passion for classical piano music. 

Wiltshire Creative today announce the full cast for Lucy Kirkwood's The Children opening at Salisbury Playhouse next month. Belinda Lang directs Christine Kavanagh (Rose), Joanne Pearce (Hazel) and Brian Protheroe (Robin).

Box of Tricks brings its critically acclaimed immersive play The Last Quiz Night on Earth to Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre later this month.

A festival of events including an audio walk, two shows, films and talks at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre next month will celebrate Yorkshire's literary sisters Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

The UK's leading disabled-led theatre company comes to Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre later this month.

Casting has been announced for a new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel Jane Eyre at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre this spring in a co-production with the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Regan De Wynter Williams Productions has announced Sasha Regan's All-Male H.M.S. Pinafore crew. Gilbert & Sullivan's much-loved operetta will run at Wilton's Music Hall from 16th March - 9th April before sailing to the Theatre Royal Winchester from 21st April - 27th April.

Asking what it means to be a woman making art and how it's changed over the years, this new production from Manchester-based Stute Theatre fuses the stories of the Brontë sisters with drama, live looped music, spoken word and vocal harmonies. Three actors come to the stage 150 years after the onset of Brontë-mania, each with their own ideas about how to tell the stories.

The Orange Tree Theatre today announces the full cast for Franz Xaver Kroetz's Tom Fool, translated by Estella Schmid and Anthony Vivis. Diyan Zora directs Anna Francolini (Martha), Jonah Rzeskiewicz (Ludwig) and Michael Shaeffer (Otto).

A new adaptation of a classic novel, an adaptation of a favourite British movie, Alan Ayckbourn's 87th play, a time-bending romance and a new version of Cinderella have been announced for 2022 by Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre.

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.

Angela Yeoh and Anya Jaya-Murphy have been cast in the premiere of the UK Tour of Rice presented by ACTORS TOURING COMPANY (ATC) and directed by Artistic Director, Matthew Xia.

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.

Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre has announced its first in-house production for 2022. Brief Encounter is a co-production with Octagon Theatre, Bolton, and Theatre by the Lake, Keswick.

Today Nottingham Playhouse announces the full cast of Simon Reade's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's award winning First World War novel Private Peaceful.

Box of Tricks announces today that the postponed 2020 tour of the critically-acclaimed immersive play The Last Quiz Night on Earth by Alison Carr will visit venues this Spring from 23 February - opening at The Derby Brewery Arms, Manchester - and offer audiences a very different experience of live performance.

 A one-woman comedy with balls, heart and Yorkshire grit heads to Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre next month.

The cast has been announced for Northern Broadsides and New Vic Theatre's world premiere co-production of As You Like It. Drawn from across the worlds of stage, TV and film, including award-winning productions, the 12 fabulous Northern actors include non-binary and disabled performers.