UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1044

Director Blanche McIntyre, winner of the TMA Best Director award in 2013 and the Critics' Circle Most Promising Newcomer award in 2011, this autumn directs at HOME Ted Hughes' adaptation of The Oresteia, Aeschylus' epic drama about war, bloodshed, revenge, and justice.

This autumn, Cornwall-based international touring company Kneehigh, with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, begin a new tour of Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs), their critically acclaimed radical reworking of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, written by Carl Grose, with a brand new score o

Fresh from performances at Glastonbury Festival 2015 and after sell-out runs at Camden Fringe in 2014 & 2013, Closing the Gap Theatre return to Camden Fringe with their brand new, devised piece about Freedom of Expression.

IT'S BACK: Calm Down Dear, the UK's first and only festival of innovative feminist theatre, returns for a third time, with a line-up including porn industry refuseniks, a celebrated 15th century cross-dresser, a Bruce Springsteen loving male alter ego, a mother and baby performance duo, outspoken te

Presented by International Theatre Producer David King the tour of the spectacular PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ arrives at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool from the 27th July -  29th August.

The cast has been announced for a musically infused version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' which will play at The Arts Theatre Upstairs this Summer.

Following its sell out run at the Brighton Fringe, here is a humorous, yet chilling, satire providing a glimpse into the end of the century future where Bio-NanoTechnology has become so small it is inserted at birth within your DNA and the need for crude hand-held devices is at an end.

The Finborough Theatre - under multi-award-winning Artistic Director Neil McPherson - celebrates its 35th year with an Autumn Season of even more vibrant new plays and unique rediscoveries.

Slung Low and Sheffield Theatres collaborate on this open-air extravaganza updating Arthurian Legends for today.

In a new production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre and originally seen as a staged reading as part of Vibrant -- A Festival of Finborough Playwrights 2013, the world premiere of We Know Where You Live  by Steven Hevey, the award-winning Playwright-on-Attachment at the Finborough Theatre, r

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Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic feel-good musical Oklahoma! comes to the Lyceum stage from Tuesday 21 July - Saturday 1 August, starring television and stage stars Belinda Lang and Gary Wilmot.

There is a special treat in store for families this August when the magical and musical James and the Giant Peach plays at the Mercury Theatre Colchester.

Curve, one of the UK's most technologically advanced theatres, is harnessing the very latest technology by releasing  a 360° panoramic performance of the hit musical Calamity Jane in a bid to make first class theatre accessible to all, a world first and true technological breakthrough.

Nuffield's Director Samuel Hodges, now in his second year leading the company, announces the upcoming autumn/winter season, alongside plans for his Nuffield directorial debut.

This summer Alan Ayckbourn is reviving his 1974 play Confusions for the first time to mark the Stephen Joseph Theatre's 60th anniversary.

Immersing you in the decadence of America's Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby is brought to life in this sizzling new stage adaptation from acclaimed Blackeyed Theatre.

The multi-international award-winning SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW returns to London's Southbank Centre for a fifth consecutive Christmas season, playing the Royal Festival Hall from 16 December 2015 to 3 January 2016.

Theatre Royal Stratford East is to stage a new site-specific play written by local emerging East London playwright Lynette Linton.

Casting has been announced for the world premiere of LADY ANNA: ALL AT SEA, a new play by Craig Baxter, inspired by the work of Anthony Trollope, directed by Colin Blumenau and designed by Libby Watson, at Park Theatre from Wednesday 19 August - Saturday 19 September, with a press night on Thursday

Following in the success of the Belgrade Mela 2014, JonquilsRose Events in association with Belgrade Theatre are delighted to announce the return of Coventry's annual, one-day South Asian Arts Festival on Sat 25 July.

In February of this year three regular school girls left Bethnal Green Academy to travel to Syria and join ISIS.

Arts Council England has made a one off award of £826,786 to enable to launch of The Regional Touring Network.

The interactive digital artwork for one person at a time RioFoneHack has been extended for four weeks.

Mandeep Dhillon and Jalleh Alizadeh will take leading roles in the stage premiere of Meera Syal's much-loved novel, Anita And Me which opens at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 9 October (press night Tuesday 13 October).