UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1046

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) has announced that it has been awarded an International Safety Management Award from the International Safety Quality Environment Management Association (ISQEM), a UK based professional association.

BEN And Holly's Little Kingdom, the BAFTA award-winning television animation, comes live to The Marlowe Theatre stage later this month (July).

BBC comic songwriter - and award-winning musical theatre composer/lyricist - Alexander S.

Derren Brown announced on twitter today that he is to take a break from touring after the 2016 tour of DERREN BROWN: MIRACLE.

The summer of laughs continues at the Drayton Festival Theatre with an uplifting comedy that's sure to keep audiences in stitches with its nostalgic look back at a seemingly simpler time.

Following the critical success earlier in the year with their production of King Lear, the acclaimed Yorkshire theatre company Northern Broadsides will return to the works of Shakespeare this autumn with a daringly theatrical and heartbreakingly human new staging of his tale of reconciliation, love

For one day only, Cosmo Italian Barbers on Caledonian Road will host jamie lewis hadley (the 'new' Sweeney Todd) and Dr Belinda Fenty as they expose the history of bloodletting as a medical practice, tracing its roots in ancient medicine, the rise of the barber-surgeon and our current understanding

Lucy Prebble's 2012 play makes its regional debut in a must-see Sheffield Theatres production.

The Royal Shakespeare Company is offering families six weeks of free drop-in entertainment, with extra activity taking place on weekends, as Stratford-on-Sea returns to the Bancroft Terrace throughout the summer holidays.

One man's fascination with The Talented Mr Ripley is bringing the captivating story to the stage at Greenwich Theatre in September after great reviews and audience reaction at the New Diorama Theatre in Euston earlier this year.

A new play aimed at young children is set to give a delightful new twist on a traditional fairy tale as well as tackle the issue of homophobic bullying by spreading a positive message about diversity and acceptance.

It was hockey sticks to the fore at Bablake School this week as the stars of new musical comedy CRUSH went 'back to school' for an afternoon of traditional team-spirit, riotous routines and lashings of old-school charm.

Opening next week, Sheffield People's Theatre and theatrical innovators, Slung Low explode the conventions of theatre as they take on one of the greatest legends of all time in Camelot: The Shining City from Thursday 9 - Saturday 18 July.

Birmingham Hippodrome Development Trust is saying a fond farewell to its Chair Mark Smith after 9 years with the theatre.

Teatro Vivo want to take you on an adventure to the unknown where you may seek out a desperate Prince Charming, a very hungry Wolf or a rather wet Frog Prince.

From Freedom Studios, the producers of the acclaimed Home Sweet Home and The Mill - The City of Dreams comes Brief Encounters at Bradford Interchange, a new site- specific promenade production inspired by the people who work and travel through Bradford's iconic Interchange station.

THE FOUR FRIDAS is a spectacular, outdoor theatre production celebrating the life and work of the legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, taking place this week, 1 - 4 July at 10pm, as the centerpiece to this year's Greenwich+Docklands International Festival* at the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich

Peter James is synonymous when referring to crime fiction.

Inside Intelligence is proud to conclude its 20th anniversary season at the Arcola, as part of the Grimeborn Festival, with an exciting double bill: the European premiere of The Wanton Sublime by twice Grammy-nominated composer Tarik O'Regan (Heart of Darkness) and Peter Maxwell Davies' The Medium.

Face to Face Festival 2015 moves to The White Bear Theatre in Kennington for an extended two weeks celebrating The Best of the Festivals 2012 - 2015.

Acclaimed Iris Theatre returns for a seventh year of its celebrated summer season in the gardens of St Paul's Church, Covent Garden with a promemade version of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

SHOWCASING the greatest hit songs of the 1960s, Dreamboats And Miniskirts comes to The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, next month (July).

THE MARLOWE Theatre's second community production takes place next month (July) and features more than 240 performers.

In this surreal comic dystopia, a ban has been imposed on the 'beautiful game' in all its forms for 12 months.

This October Watford Palace Theatre will be producing the world premiere of Coming Up, Neil D'Souza's evocative, playful and magical new play about family ties, and how quickly we can become disconnected from ourselves.