UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1034

For the second year running, Hartshorn - Hook Productions brings its signature Edinburgh Festival sell-out show The Rat Pack - Live to the Arts Theatre for a stunning night of 1950s glitz and glamour.

A magical 'spoken word' drama that enraptured audiences and critics alike at the Edinburgh Fringe and was selected for the 2015 British Council showcase is heading out on a national tour this autumn and has 3 London dates at Clapham Omnibus.

As part of STOMP's continuing 13th Birthday celebrations in London's West End, the show's producers have invited Mousetrap Theatre Projects to organise a special free schools' matinee for 13 year-olds on Monday 12 October at the Ambassadors Theatre.

Award-Winning Dramatisation of Passionate Oscar Wilde Love Letter Comes to Swindon after Edinburgh Festival Triumph.

Dry Land was greeted with ecstatic reviews and queues around the block when it premiered at the Here Arts Center in New York a year ago.

Following a successful and ambitious opening season in May 2015, Theatre N16 is returning - but it's moved south, now residing at The Bedford Pub in Balham.

The Screenwriter's Daughter, a new American play about the life of the illustrious Hollywood icon, Ben Hecht, as seen through the tempestuous relationship between Ben and his free-spirited, young, 60s generation daughter Jenny, will get its European premiere in a five-week season in the Lounge at Le

Priscilla Queen of the Desert has had massive success all over the world since it opened in Sydney, Australia in 2006 - no more so than in this country where the show enjoyed a two-year run in London and is currently on its second UK tour.

Ahead of the world stage premiere of one of the best children's books of all time according to The Times, The Silver Sword (based on the novel by Iain Serraillier), BWW:UK talks to Susie McKenna, Adapter and Director of this new stage show.

=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 for violent picketing and intimidating workers in Shropshire in 1973, is set to open in London this November.

Oscar Wilde's much-loved masterpiece THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST will visit Coventry's Belgrade Theatre from Tues 29th September to Sat 3rd October as part of a major new U.

Following an acclaimed, sell-out run in April, Critics' Circle award-winner Greg Hicks and three-time Olivier award-winner Clare Higgins are to resume their starring roles in Mark Jagasia's Clarion, one of the smash-hit plays of the year.

Set in 1930s New York during The Great Depression, Annie is forced to live a life of misery and torment at Miss Hannigan's orphanage.

Following his critically acclaimed West End concerts at the iconic London Hippodrome, award-winning musical director, pianist and singer Ross Leadbeater celebrates his musical favourites from The Great British Songbook - with a wonderful mix of timeless classics and some forgotten gems.

New official photo released as rehearsals end.

Seven new plays by emerging playwrights in response to the current political climate in the UK.

OpenWorks Theatre and Company of Angels in association with Derby Theatre present AND NOW: THE WORLD! The English language premiere of the award-winning German play that questions the effects of the internet on our behaviour is written by Sibylle Berg and directed by Abigail Graham, with dramaturge

After a sell-out run last Christmas award-winning comedy trio Sleeping Trees is returning to Theatre503 this December.

Sixth Sense Theatre, with funding from Friends of the Swindon Arts Centre, are excited to be organising Swindon's first ever Youth Arts Showcase! The showcase will focus on youth talent in the local area and bring them together on the Arts Centre stage to celebrate the work Swindon's young people cr

Strictly Come Dancing superstars Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace bring their final ever spectacular dance show The Last Tango to the Lyceum Theatre from Monday 28 September - Saturday 3 October.

Following successful tour of the UK, Liverpool's renowned Tmesis Theatre are proud to announce the return of their most innovative and chilling one woman show, Wolf Red to the United Solo Festival in November.

This Christmas, The Watermill celebrates the 150th Anniversary of Lewis Carroll's much loved novel with a brand new stage adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, opening Thursday 19 November until Sunday 3 January 2016.

The Lyric Hammersmith today announces its programme from September 2015.

46 BEACON, a coming-out and coming-of-age play set in 1970's America by Drama Desk and Richard Rodgers Award Award winner Bill Rosenfield, willl get its world premiere at The Hope Theatre, Islington, London N1 1RL, 4 -12 October 2015.

A TOUCHING new comedy comes to The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, later this year.