UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1005

?Wolverhampton Grand Theatre today announce that X Factor winner Joe McElderry will star in the title role of this year's magical pantomime adventure - ALADDIN.

Transferring to the King's Head Theatre after successful runs in Wales and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015, Scriptography Productions' To Kill a Machine by Catrin Fflur Hews tells the story of Alan Turing through the lens of a gameshow.

?Kneehigh today announced the appointment of Ali Robertson as the company's new Executive Producer.

Produced by DanceXchange, in partnership with Birmingham Hippodrome, the award-winning International Dance Festival Birmingham 2016 (IDFB) returns for the fifth time to bring the city alive with dancers from across the globe over three spectacular weeks from 1-22 May 2016.

Nikolai Foster, Artistic Director at Curve, today announces the full company for his new production of the award-winning West End and Broadway smash hit musical comedy, Legally Blonde, including Tupele Dorgu who joins the cast as Paulette.

Following the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company's successful collaboration with Chichester Festival Theatre in 2015, producing The King's Speech, the two companies have worked together once more to present Alan Bennett's award-winning double-bill.

Today 19th February 2016 marks the 420th anniversary of the wedding between Lord Thomas Berkeley and Elizabeth Carey - the wedding for which William Shakespeare wrote one of the most successful plays in theatre history - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

Are you curious about Wagner and his famous Ring Cycle but are reluctant to give up loads of time and dosh without knowing more? THE RINSE CYCLE is your chance to experience this amazing work - without taking it too seriously.

St James Theatre Studio (12 Palace Street, London SW1E 5JA) welcomes A SONG GOES ROUND THE WORLD on May 16th, 2016 at 8 p.

Rudi Dharmalingam, Darrell D'Silva, James Harkness, Jessica Raine and Ria Zmitrowicz start rehearsals on Monday 22 February for X which runs from 30 March - 7 May 2016 in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.

?Actor Dominic West is leading a fund-raising campaign to encourage people to sign-up as regular donors to Sheffield Theatres.

Vertigo Theatre Productions are back with a crazy new comedy

Amused Moose Soho, presenting top comedy in the swishest venue in town at Soho's Sanctum Hotel, continues with five outstanding comedians tonight 19 February 2016.

The Lyric Hammersmith and Filter Theatre Production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, co-directed by Sean Holmes and Stef O'Driscoll, begins tonight 19 February through 19 March.

Gary Naylor sees a play that has a curious structure but too flimsy and over-familiar a plot to carry a production that boils down to two men talking.

Hampstead Theatre today announces two world premieres for the Main Stage, LAWRENCE AFTER ARABIA by Howard Brenton and WILD by Mike Bartlett.

The Olivier Award-nominated production of Jacqueline Wilson's Hetty Feather comes to Birmingham Repertory Theatre from Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 March, following a sell-out West End season at the Duke of York's Theatre, London.

Theatr Clwyd Artistic Director Tamara Harvey today announces full casting for the regional premiere of the hit Royal Court and West End comedy Jumpy by April De Angelis.

Acclaimed US actor and composer, Chris Lemmon, is to premiere his autobiographical play, Twist of Lemmon, celebrating the loves, times, trials and tribulations of his father, the Hollywood legend and multiple nominee and Oscar winner, Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot, Missing, The Odd Couple, Save The

The Lab Collective's ONE UNDER comes to VAULT Festival, now through February 21, 2016.

?Norwich based Baroque Theatre Company announce their 2016 tour of John Chapman's farce Kindly Leave the Stage.

The Get Creative Family Arts Festival will run throughout October 2016, marking the fourth year of this hugely successful national initiative funded by Arts Council England.

Today, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre and Dudley Zoological Gardens announce a pantomime sponsorship that will see both companies work together in the run up to this year's magical pantomime adventure - ALADDIN.

With his days as Mayor of London numbered, Britain's favourite comedy politician casts himself in another leading role: the star of his own West End show.

Gary Naylor sees a fine performance in a concert / play that shines a light on a somewhat neglected but important figure in the 1960s counterculture.