UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1049

Today it is officially announced that Jessica Hepburn, the Lyric Hammersmith's Executive Director of nearly ten years, will be leaving the organisation later this year after taking on one final challenge - swimming the English Channel to raise money for the theatre's work for disadvantaged children

Mrs Warren's Profession, a play that was banned for 30 years, comes to the Exeter Northcott Theatre in July.

Old Vic New Voices announces a brand new festival, celebrating the work of exceptional and emerging playwrights.

Hampstead Theatre has announced that Simon Russell Beale will be joined by Dervla Kirwan and Joseph Millson in the cast of Ian Kelly's new play about the dawn of celebrity.

Tristan Sharps and dreamthinkspeak today announce the opening of their new piece Absent which will be staged at Shoreditch Town Hall from 24 August to 25 October with press performances on 1 and 2 September.

Director Pamela Schermann, whose productions at The Rose Playhouse include The Taming of the Shrew, Orpheus and Eurydice and Othello, directs (Hon) Artistic Associate of The Rose, Suzanne Marie, in a new production of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris.

The Talks are embarking on an extensive UK tour punctuated by European festival appearances.

The Bush Theatre's twice-yearly open submission window for new scripts opens today, for three months.

When Roger Mortimer and Debrorah Edgington's production of Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa! opened at The Tristan Bates Theatre in April this year, it was greeted with universal and unqualified praise.

Rosie & Me in association with Live Theatre presents THE SOAKING OF VERA SHRIMP.

With Tamara Harvey's production of Pride &Prejudice to open shortly in the Crucible, Artistic Director Daniel Evans presents Lucy Prebble's The Effect -Stuart Bunce (Toby), Priyanga Burford (Dr James), Ophelia Lovibond (Connie), Henry Pettigrew (Tristan).

After the loss of her late husband, 'the best of all men', Helena Popova refuses to leave the house.

The award winning theatre production company Organised Chaos Productions bring their latest collaboration of the North West's finest new and emerging talent with the successful script from their script call last year: Lightspeed by Clem Haran.

Teddy is the newest production at the Southwark Playhouse's The Large venue, from promising duo composer Dougal Irvine and playwright Tristan Bernays.

Charles Court Opera and the King's Head Theatre are proud to announce that Charles Court Opera's legendary annual 'Boutique panto' will be transferring to its new home at the King's Head Theatre for 2015 after eight glorious years at the Rosemary Branch Theatre.

Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends will stir magic memories from Greenwich Theatre's recent history when it plays at the theatre for four performances at the end of this month.

Rose Theatre Kingston today announces its most ambitious project to date - this autumn the Rose stage will be transformed into a battlefield for The Wars of the Roses, a gripping adaptation of four of Shakespeare's history plays, directed by Trevor Nunn.

?The annual Gi60: International One-Minute Play Festival, hosted by Brooklyn College's Department of Theater and Leeds University in the United Kingdom, will celebrate its 11th year by offering 150 original plays in three international locations, including Brooklyn College, Leeds University in the U

BROMANCE comes to the Udderbelly Festival at Southbank Centre, Jubilee Gardens, London SE1 8XX, Wednesday 24th June - Sunday 19th July 2015.

The waiting is over, Holt Festival, North Norfolk's award winning international festival of music, drama, visual art, literary giants, talks, dance and comedy, has announced its full programme for 2015, its seventh year.

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Sheffield Blitz, and the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Operation Crucible, the debut play by Kieran Knowles, opens for a four week limited season at the Finborough Theatre from Tuesday 28 July - Saturday 22 August.

After a hugely successful, box-office-record-smashing Spring season in its 45th year, the King's Head Theatre is proud to announce its Summer season, including exciting new work and ground-breaking revivals, as well as travels to Edinburgh and a new writing festival.

Following the success of their UK tours in 2013 and 2014 the Reduced Shakespeare Company are pleased to announce a further 19 dates this Summer by popular demand.

Justin Fletcher, known to millions as CBeebies Mr Tumble, will be joined by Ronni Ancona as Miss Eerie.

Jamie Muscato will join the cast of The House of Mirrors and Hearts, a new British chamber musical to play in Studio 1 at Arcola Theatre from Thursday 2 July 2015.