UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1067

The original play that inspired the Academy Award-winning film The King's Speech, comes to the Lyceum Theatre from Monday 13 April to Saturday 18 April starring Jason Donovan as speech therapist Lionel Logue and Raymond Coulthard as King George VI.

Following hugely successful performances of their last three shows at Brighton Fringe, award winning company Box Tale Soup return in May with their latest work, Manalive! The new show tells the story of Beacon House, a broken-down boarding establishment, and its brooding tenants.

Deep in the forest, faeries wait.

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre announces Jason Merrells - one of TV's most popular actors, to lead the cast in the upcoming production of TWELVE ANGRY MEN.

Playwright Molly Davies received the 2015 Pinter Commission yesterday (Tuesday 24 March) - an award given annually by Lady Antonia Fraser, Harold Pinter's widow, to support a new commission at the Royal Court Theatre.

Artistic Director Anda Winters today unveils Print Room's Summer 2015 season.

Gary Naylor sees a 25th Anniversary Show of a classic musical that, even after all those performances, still has the feel of a first draft in need of a tidying-up.

The London Theatre Workshop has announced the cast for the upcoming UK premiere of the musical comedy VOTE FOR ME: A MUSICAL DEBATE which runs at their boutique theatre venue in Fulham, West London this May, direct from a sell-out Off-Broadway run.

Multi award-winning circus spectacular Barnum rolls into town from Tuesday 7 - Saturday 11 April at the Lyceum Theatre, starring stage and television favourite, Brian Conley and West End leading lady Linzi Hateley.

Fresh from two Sadler's Wells performances celebrating its 20th anniversary, Richard Alston Dance Company embarks on its anniversary tour of the UK and will stop off at Exeter Northcott today 24 and tomorrow 25 March 2015.

A brand new season of West End musicals, pantomime, hilarious comedy and one night concerts with TOMMY STEELE, DAVID HASSELHOFF, BARBARA DICKSON, JUDY CORNWELL, CERI DUPREE, THE CHUCKLE BROTHERS and JOHN ALTMAN.

After King's Head Theatre's belting season opener, Trainspotting, the next couple of months at London's best pub theatre continues to celebrate it's 45 year anniversary by presenting new, exciting work that hasn't been seen before in London.

The Rotherhithe tunnel-shaft, constructed by Marc Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel to access the first ever underwater tunnel which ran below the Thames, will host the world premiere of The Eighth Wonder of the World, a new play by Nick Harrison.

Aria Entertainment's Katy Lipson is taking over the Old Red Lion this May to present a revival of the renowned Portia Coughlan; a ferocious, haunting and beautiful Irish tale by Marina Carr, writer of By The Bog of Cats, The Mai and Ullaloo.

Suitable for all the family (ages three and over), Australian-based creators Erth introduce audiences to a range of creatures from cute baby dinos to teeth-gnashing giants, including a carnivorous theropod known as the 'Australovenator' - Australia's version of the American T-Rex.

This May, Southampton's Nuffield and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse will produce The Hudsucker Proxy, in association with internationally acclaimed company Complicite.

ONE of the most dangerous magical illusions ever seen on stage is to be performed live on stage by a star of the hit ITV show Get Your Act Together.

THE PHILHARMONIA Orchestra bring three spellbinding works to The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, next month (April).

Wildspark Theatre & the Cockpit have announced their cast for forthcoming original production, The Bombing of the Grand Hotel.

A haunting and wonderfully realised production of Fania Fenelon's memoir about her experience as a musician in Nazi concentration camps.

Birmingham Ormiston Academy (or BOA as it is fondly known) may already be on your radar but if it isn't, you won't escape it for much longer.

International theatre producer David King has announced that the singer-songwriter, actor and winner of hit TV shows Dancing on Ice, Dancing on Ice - All Stars, and Get Your Act Together, Ray Quinn, will be joining the UK Tour of JUDY - THE SONGBOOK OF JUDY GARLAND.

On Friday 27 March, more than 70 performers from the local community will celebrate the reinterment of King Richard III at Leicester Cathedral, by performing an original piece of theatre devised by Curve Artistic Director Nikolai Foster and choreographer Mel Knott, as part of the Service of Reveal o

RITA Simons, best known as Roxie Mitchell from EastEnders, stars in this year's Marlowe Theatre pantomime.

Based on the famous political diaries of Tony Benn, one of Britain's most respected, celebrated and controversial politicians, Tony's Last Tape, by Andy Barrett, examines the struggle of a man who realises that maybe it is time to withdraw from the fight, to let others take over, but just doesn't qu