Prestigious UK Theatre Award Nominates Curve

Curve has been shortlisted for The Renee Stepham Award for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre at the prestigious UK Theatre Awards. The nominations for this year's awards were announced yesterday, 15 September.

The only nationwide Awards to honour and celebrate the outstanding achievements of regional theatre across the UK, Curve is thrilled to be recognised for its work on tour, having made this a significant focus of the theatre's business plan.

During the last year, Curve was involved in touring eight different productions for a total of 63 weeks, playing to over 250,000 people in 48 cities. These productions included Beautiful Thing with Nottingham Playhouse Theatre, Hairspray with Mark Goucher Productions Limited, Until the Lions with Akram Khan Company, Roald Dahl's The Witches with Rose Theatre Kingston, Into the Hoods - Remixed with Zoo Nation Dance Company, Breakfast at Tiffany's with Colin Ingram and Peter Kane, and Echoes & I Imagine and Murmur & Inked with Aakash Odedra Company.

In addition, Curve's 2016 production of Legally Blonde The Musical toured to the Daegu International Musical Festival in South Korea, picking up two top awards: Best Musical and Best Actress in a Musical for Lucie Jones as Elle Woods. Breakfast at Tiffany's continues to tour nationally, following three months in the West End, and the theatre is also currently co-producing a 50 week national tour of Sister Act, which opened at the venue in July.

Chief Executive Chris Stafford and Artistic Director Nikolai Foster said in a joint statement:
"Having been awarded the Promotion of Diversity Award at last year's UK Theatre Awards, we are honoured to be nominated once again this year. It has been a joy to take Curve on Tour and share our work with brand new audiences, both further developing our national and international reputation, and growing new income streams for our theatre. Touring has become a vital part of what we do, and we look forward to sharing more work for children and young people with our co-production of Fantastic Mr Fox which is set to tour in 2017, alongside our co-productions of Sister Act and Hairspray."

Curve is run by Leicester Theatre Trust Limited, a registered charity (no. 230708). We gratefully acknowledge and welcome the continued support of and partnership with the above organisations.Curve is a major producing theatre, creating exceptional and compelling experiences. We use our unique home and talent to entertain, inspire and engage with a diverse audience and play a leading role in the development of our industry, our city and our global community. At the heart of this is the ambition to offer our local audiences world-class theatrical experiences.

Curve is a registered charity, number 230708, enabling people of all ages and backgrounds to access, participate in and learn from the arts, nurturing new and emerging talent, and creating outstanding, award-winning theatrical experiences.

Under the leadership of Chief Executive Chris Stafford and Artistic Director Nikolai Foster, Curve is developing a reputation for producing, programming and touring a bold and diverse programme of musicals, plays, new work and dance. All of this presented alongside a dynamic mix of community engagement and learning opportunities, which firmly places audiences and communities at the heart of what Curve does. Recent productions and co-productions Made At Curve include: our Community Company production of Alan Parker's Bugsy Malone, Spring Awakening (with NYMT), Sister Act (& Monaco & UK tour), Legally Blonde (& Daegu Opera Festival, South Korea - Winner Best Musical - Daegu International Musical Festival Awards), Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's (& Haymarket Theatre, London & UK tour), Ishy Din's Wipers (in collaboration with Belgrade Theatre Coventry & Watford Palace), Roald Dahl's The Witches (& Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong & UK tour), Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Hairspray (& UK tour), Shakespeare's Richard III, Akram Khan's Until the Lions (with Roundhouse, London), Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ - The Musical, and Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing (& UK national tour).