UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1006

Fresh from its hugely successful run in the West End, Impossible is a brand new stage spectacle featuring six of the best magicians and illusionists that this country has to offer.

Terrifyingly, one in two of us will experience cancer first-hand.

Thomas Kyd's THE SPANISH TRAGEDY, directed by Dan Hutton, opened 11 February and runs through 5th March 2016 at the Old Red Lion.

Lazarus Theatre Company presents THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE by Bertolt Brecht in a version by Frank McGuiness, Tuesday 23 February to Saturday 12 March 2016.

Peckhamplex Cinema (95A Rye Lane, Peckham, London SE15 4ST) will present MATTHEW BOURNE'S THE CAR MAN on Wednesday, March 2 at 7 p.

Japanese taiko drumming company KODO returns to the UK this month for its 35th anniversary with a new show, MYSTERY, a dramatic mix of storytelling, music, dance and drama designed to reflect the beauty and mystery of Japanese traditions throughout the ages.

After premiering at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015, the first tour of Shakespeare Untold opens at Watford Palace Theatre to coincide with April's Shakespeare 400 celebrations, and closes at Wilton's Music Hall in London with a summer half term run.

A vibrant new staging of the great Russian comedy, The Government Inspector, opens at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in March before touring to Ipswich, Leeds, Nottingham, Stratford East, Liverpool and Sheffield.

The Citizens Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland are presenting This Restless House a highly-ambitious trilogy of new plays by Zinnie Harris based on Aeschylus' The Oresteia at the Citizens Theatre from 15 April 2016.

Celebrate the music of The Beatles, the world's most successful rock 'n' roll band, at the Lyceum Theatre from Monday 22 - Saturday 27 February in Let It Be, a spectacular concert charting the band's meteoric rise from their humble beginnings in Liverpool's Cavern Club, through to the heights of Bea

?A hit in the West End and on Broadway, End of the Rainbow makes its awaited return to the stage, playing at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry from Tues 23 to Sat 27 Feb as part of a major new UK tour, starring Lisa Maxwell as Judy Garland.

Chris Stafford, Chief Executive and Nikolai Foster, Artistic Director of Curve, today announce the full cast for Wipers, written by Ishy Din.

Multi award-winning musical Mary Poppins flies back onto the Birmingham Hippodrome stage just in time for Easter 2016, opening on Wednesday 9 March until Saturday 23 April 2016.

?Pilot Theatre are delighted to announce that Esther Richardson will join the company as their new Artistic Director and joint Chief Executive Officer.

?After touring the country with his best stand-up show yet, Ed Byrne's next stop is Warrington's Parr Hall, and audiences are bound to fall under the spell of his Irish wit and charm.

Gary Naylor sees a fine black comedy that has lots to say 33 years on from its premiere and showcases three tours-de-force from the three actors

Gary Naylor sees some magnificent singing and dodgy acting in something best described as a 'Jukebox Opera'.

This week, Birmingham Royal Ballet Director David Bintley and dancers from one of the UK's most prolific dance companies took a step back in time retracing the steps of arguably the world's most famous playwright as they visited the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford upon Avon.

Sheffield Theatres' associate director Charlotte Gwinner returns to directing duties at the Crucible with Waiting For Godot.

The Sheffield Theatres/Eclipse Theatres production shows that Lorraine Hansberry's classic play is as fresh today as when it was first written.

Completing his trio of Tchaikovsky's great ballets, Sir Matthew Bourne has turned his choreographic hand to Sleeping Beauty, with the added surtitle 'a gothic romance.

New theatre company Painting Painting bring two brutally funny pieces of new writing to Theatre N16 this February: Blackhander and F**king Little Elf B*tch, running February 21st - 25th 2016, 7.

Theatre Royal Stratford East Launches its new 80 Seat Theatre Space in Gerry's opposite, with a multi-award winning Edinburgh hit, examining how we use words, the line between curiosity and fear, and the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric.

Stella Odunlami directs Deborah Pearson's potent new play MADE VISIBLE, a funny and vivid exploration into race, identity and just having a chat with someone new.

Wolverhampton Musical Comedy Company - MUSCOM returns to Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Tuesday 15 - Saturday 19 March with an exciting new production of the musical favourite FAME.