UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1030

After sell-out success at Brighton and Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 THREESOME returns to Brighton Comedy Fringe 2015

The Wyvern Theatre opens its doors on Sat 24 October for the return of their annual free Family Fun Day.

BWW:UK recently sat down for a chat with the stars of the new UK tour of Hairspray at the show's Birmingham press launch at the New Alexandra Theatre, where it is playing over the Christmas period.

The Lyric Hammersmith is pleased to announce that Sir William Atkinson has been appointed Chairman of the theatre's board from 6 November 2015.

24 children from The Theatre Workshop in Edgbaston will be joining the cast of Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webbers classic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar on stage at Birmingham Hippodrome from 2 - 7 November 2015.

Meera Syal's much-loved novel bursts onto the stage for the very first time this Autumn.

This month, Nuffield's Director Samuel Hodges, now in his second year leading the company, directs a production of Tennessee Williams' THE GLASS MENAGERIE.

Amused Moose will host its Comedy Award Showcase on Tuesday 3 November 2015 at 9 p.

Amused Moose Soho's Super Saturday Comedy -- the excellent best-value-in-London-tonight comedy show from a great bunch of skilful stand-ups, at Soho's only multi-award winning comedy club, recommended by TimeOut, just one minute from Leicester Square tube at 'Above The Arts' -- continues November 28

It's raining in the Midlands.

Following a sell-out run in London's West End, hit musical The Bodyguard comes to the Lyceum Theatre from Tuesday 27 October to Saturday 7 November, starring three-time Brit nominee and X-Factor winner, Alexandra Burke, in the lead role of Rachel Marron.

The Tiger Lillies' genre-defying brand of other-worldly vocals and unnerving performance style has carved them a unique niche in the cabaret and music theatre scene and earned them a Grammy nomination.

After a successful national tour last year, a new play based on the story of the "Shrewsbury 24" when 24 building workers were accused and three jailed, including actor Ricky Tomlinson, for violent picketing and intimidating workers in Shropshire in 1973, is set to its London premiere at the CLF Art

Following the success of last year's Give The Gift Of Theatre campaign, Coventry's Belgrade Theatre is once again asking the people of Coventry and Warwickshire to dig deep in support of families facing financial hardship at Christmas.

Sheffield Theatres and Sheffield Dementia Action Alliance have announced that they are hosting a series of free Dementia Friendly Tea Dances in the Crucible.

Classical ballet with a twist comes to The Marlowe Theatre this month in the form of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.

We all know her as star of stage and screen from AUNTIE MAME to MURDER SHE WROTE, but who is Angela Lansbury?

THREE nights, three different shows: Paul Foot, one of this country's most eccentric and original comedians, is back in Canterbury later this month (October).

Based on one of the most popular and best-loved Christmas films of all time, classic musical MIRACLE ON 34th STREET will return for a third UK Tour, opening at Croydon's Fairfield Halls on Thursday 29 October 2015.

Desperate Measures, a freewheeling new musical based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is set in London in the 'swinging sixties' against a backdrop of starchy middle class morality and hypocrisy in a country on the verge of Beatlemania and the sexual and social permissiveness that we know today

An Evening on Broadway is your chance to experience both (conveniently, a little closer to home) at the Sony Theatre, Bridgend for 'One Night Only'.

Following a hugely successful run of 'HOT MIKADO' at The Lichfield Garrick Theatre earlier this year, critically acclaimed House of Greasepaint Productions are proud to bring the hilarious musical comedy 'I LOVE YOU BECAUSE' to London for a STRICTLY LIMITED 1 WEEK RUN, opening on 24th November at Lo

Gary Naylor sees a scaled back but utterly compelling version of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, that makes the occasional compromise with the stories, but none at all with the quality of the singing nor the sets.

Gary Naylor sees a scaled back Werther that still packs an impressive punch, as two lives fall apart caught between love and duty.