UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1065

Following a successful run at Derby Theatre as a companion piece to The Odyssey, Penelope Retold is now embarking on a national tour.

Gary Naylor enjoys a funny, and very scary, play that imagines just what may have happened to see off Margaret Thatcher, one of two politicians to win a secure majority in a UK election in the last 45 years.

The Unicorn Theatre will be running a series of post-show events around Fight Night chaired by well-known political commentators; Unicorn Ambassador and Broadcaster Mishal Husain, T4 presenter and author of recently published None of the Above book, Rick Edwards and British Youth Council Trustee and

After a sell-out run at Leicester Square Theatre in 2011 and back by popular demand, BURNT OAK has been revived to mark the first in a series of contemporary writing to come out of Soho.

Hampstead Theatre has announced that the cast for Michael Frayn's latest work MATCHBOX THEATRE will be Esther Coles, Tim Downie, Mark Hadfield, Chris Larner, Felicity Montagu and Nina Wadia.

Gary Naylor talks to Sasha Regan ahead of the UK Tour of her All Male Pirates of Penzance.

The team behind the sold out and critically acclaimed production of The Fastest Clock in the Universe reunite at the Old Red Lion to stage Tim Foley's brave dark comedy The Dogs of War - a volatile look at a group of people battling with the fear of change, isolation and separation.

Award-winning Shakespeare's Globe Theatre will visit Exeter Northcott Theatre in April with its brand new version of the classic tragedy, Romeo & Juliet.

Katie Mitchell's acclaimed stage adaptation of Dr Seuss's The Cat In The Hat will embark on its first UK tour in 2015, playing at Exeter Northcott Theatre on Wednesday 15 April 2015.

The cast has been confirmed for the first production in National Theatre Wales' fifth season - an anarchic, all-female, new version of Bertolt Brecht's 1939 anti-war play, Mother Courage and Her Children, performed in and around the Merthyr Labour Club in May 2015.

Poems old and new about voting and democracy will feature in a special lunchtime performance at Greenwich Theatre on Wednesday, May 6, the day before the general election.

CONNECTIONS, the National Theatre's annual festival of new plays for youth theatres and schools, comes to Canterbury later this month (April).

Shoreditch Town Hall today announces the appointment of Stephen Robertson as Chair of Trustees.

Edward Hall, Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre and Executive Producer Greg Ripley-Duggan are delighted to announce the launch of a new initiative to invest a million pounds in the commissioning of new plays.

Following the runaway success of Until They Kick Us Out in March this year, Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) will bring the play back to the Everyman stage in the week before the General Election.

Hailed by BBC Radio London's Robert Elms as 'a great British eccentric and a brilliant performer' (but what does he know?), London cabaret legend Eve Ferret is returning to her first love in Eve Ferret - Madame Bouffant.

Swindon Youth Theatre, run by Swindon's only professional theatre company, Sixth Sense Theatre, is in final rehearsals for its latest production.

Bobby Davro - actor, impressionist and one of the UK's funniest and most celebrated comedians (Bobby Davro on the Box, Bobby Davro's TV Annual, Bobby's Sketch Pad, TV Weekly, Eastenders) - leads the cast as a London cabbie and table tennis team captain 'Eric', in this 20th anniversary (and first Lon

This Summer, the heart-stopping blend of cabaret burlesque, Australian machismo and punkish swagger comes to The London Wonderground for an extended run throughout August and September following a barnstorming year of sell out runs and ecstatic reviews across the world.

A new play based on the story of "Shrewsbury 24" when 24 building workers were accused and three jailed for violent picketing and intimidating workers in Shropshire in 1973 is set to have its world premiere at: The Court Room Theatre, part of Brighton Festival.

King Richard III was finally laid to rest this month with suitable pomp and majesty in Leicester Cathedral.

The Traverse Theatre has announced that playwright and director Zinnie Harris joins the company as Associate Director from April.

The world premiere of a new play specially created in response to the General Election by award-winning actor/director Chris New opens at the Finborough Theatre for a limited run of nine Sunday and Monday evening and Tuesday matinee performances from Sunday, 26 April 2015 - with a special extra perf

Following their sell out run of 2014, London's finest purveyors of cabaret noir are back this summer with a brand-new extravaganza.

Following a sold-out run in spring 2014, Terry Johnson's hit revival of Oh What A Lovely War will visit the Belgrade Theatre from today 31st Mar - Sat 4th Apr as part of a major new U.