UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1037

West End star Kieran Brown (Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Les Miserables) will be at The MAC on Sunday 13th September to officially open the Birmingham Institute of Theatre Arts (BITA).

Ian Seraillier's highly acclaimed and much-loved children's novel, THE SILVER SWORD, will receive its world stage premiere at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre from Sat 26 Sept - Sat 3 Oct before embarking on UK Tour throughout Autumn 2015.

Ten years in the making, Sankeys Warehouse launches at the iconic Victoria Warehouse on Saturday the 17th of October 2015, with a carefully crafted line up, showcasing a history of DJs that have played at Sankeys over the last two decades, comprising a mixture of dance music legends alongside a vast

Gary Naylor sees a unapologetically entertaining comedy set in a Derby household as the 1950s were turning into the 1960s starring the family from hell!

tutti frutti and York Theatre Royal are delighted to announce that they will be teaming up with Olivier award nominated playwright Emma Reeves to stage the enchanting Snow Child, a new play inspired by Arthur Ransome's adaptation of The Little Daughter of the Snow.

Commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, Horniman's Choice brings together four plays by the leading figures of the 'Manchester School' of playwrights - Harold Brighouse, Stanley Houghton and Allan Monkhouse, all originally championed by Annie Horniman, owner of Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, the first

Home, a new multi-disciplinary production from Physical Lab's Yorgos Karamalegos, will be premiered in Liverpool this Autumn.

Directed by Daniel Burgess.

ImpFest (The Impermanent Festival of Contemporary Performance) will be held September 3rd - 27th 2015, Hornsey Town Hall Arts Centre.

Winner of Best Comedy at the 2014 Olivier Awards and following an award-winning run at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre, the effervescent, aristocratic fool Bertie Wooster and his dutiful valet, Jeeves arrive in Exeter in the critically acclaimed stage play JEEVES & WOOSTER in PERFECT NONSENSE

Michael Frayn's riotous backstage farce Noises Off will have a short run in central London this autumn, thanks to the City's premier amateur theatre company, Sedos.

The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich has today announced the cast of their new actor-musician production of SWEET CHARITY, which runs from Thursday 3 to Saturday 26 September 2015, directed by Artistic Director Peter Rowe.

Continuing our tradition of breathing new life into classic plays, the Tron Theatre Company production at the centre of our autumn programme is Megan Barker's claustrophobically dark and gripping adaptation of Ghosts.

Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe and two previous seasons at Charing Cross Theatre, USHERS: The Front of House Musical  is transferring to the Arts Theatre for a 6-week season from Wednesday 9 September to Sunday 18 October.

David Fielder and Nigel Hastings will star in the first show in Theatre503's autumn season, And Then Come The Nightjars by Bea Roberts.

The Man Who Had All the Luck is Arthur Miller's rarely performed first produced play.

The first of a number of events aligned with Matthew Warchus' new season at The Old Vic have been announced to coincide with the opening of Future Conditional on Thursday 10 September.

Curve today announces the full cast for Tennessee Williams' seminal work A Streetcar Named Desire which opens Nikolai Foster's inaugural season as Artistic Director.

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) - the world's number one live-theatre company with over 40 venues - has signed a deal to acquire ACE Theatrical Group (ACE), a company which specialises in the operation, design, development and construction of world class, live performance venues throughout North Amer

This October 'Twelfth Night: A Gender Experiment' is coming to the Rose Playhouse.

A brand new professional panto is being launched in the Gateshead area for Christmas 2015.

Multi-Tony Award winner 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' has hit London this summer at The Landor Theatre and it is certainly not one to miss!  

Gary Naylor sees a strange, eerie interpretation of Madama Butterfly sung with tremendous passion and skill in a thrillingly intimate setting.

Jamie Hendry, the producer of IMPOSSIBLE, London's most dangerous magic and illusion show, has revealed that it has recouped its West End costs of £950,000 in just over one month, during its run at the Noel Coward Theatre.

The world premiere of My Eyes Went Dark by Matthew Wilkinson - originally developed with the support of The National Theatre Studio - opens for a four week limited season at the Finborough Theatre tonight, 27 August 2015.