UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1069

?As the UK heads towards the general election young people from across Birmingham and the West Midlands are taking to the stage for The Manifesto, a two-and-a-half-week festival of punchy, political ideas.

Following the recent announcement of Joe Bonamassa's forthcoming studio album 'Different Shades of Blue', released on 22nd September by Provogue, the celebrated guitarist is proud to announce four concerts at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, London in March 2015.

KiteHigh would like to announce the full cast and creative team for their upcoming production of Baby, a new show by Effie Samara exploring the emotional and political struggles behind artificial insemination, which will debut at the Hope Theatre, Islington.

LWL Investments & Entertainment are pleased to announce a new production of In the Dead of Night by Claudio Macor at the Landor Theatre, 22nd April to 16th May.

Drayton Arms Theatre today announces the cast for Oriel Theatre Company's production of Oliver Michell's new play The Tulip Tree.

Watching video footage from a drone, Pentagon officials see a huddle of people - unarmed smugglers, with mules - treading their familiar path across the Turkish-Iraqi border.

Dynamic theatre company Idle Motion are working at Greenwich Theatre to put together a moving multi-media show about two pioneering war photographers that will tour the UK in April and return to the theatre for three nights in May.

From April 2015, Vanishing Point will move from their current office at the CCA in Glasgow to become an associate company of the Citizens Theatre.

Michael Flatley's father, Michael James Flatley, passed away in Chicago yesterday, Friday 13 March, the opening night of Flatley's farewell performances of Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games at the Dominion Theatre in London.

Gary Naylor sees a tremendously impassioned production of Puccini's masterpiece, its power given full rein by musicians and singers who can fill a large theatre with this magical opera.

The Rio Cinema in Dalston, east London, is delighted to host a special screening of Future Sound of Mzansi, the highly acclaimed musical documentary directed by Soweto-born performance artist and musician SPOEK MATHAMBO and filmmaker and cinematographer LEBOGANG RASETHABA.

?UK promoters ExhibiTours are set to bring an adaptation of The American Museum of Natural History's entertaining and illuminating exhibition The Power of Poison to East London's Truman Brewery from 16 May revealing the strange and intriguing things that happen when humans and toxic substances colli

Wilton's Music Hall has announced events for March and April at The Chrysalis Club, an eclectic interim arts programme of events, gigs, screenings, classes and performances which will run until September 2015, as the world's last surviving Grand Music Hall in London's East End enters the second phas

Jagged Fence Productions has announced that it will present a series of free events inspired by Laurie Slade's acclaimed new version of August Strindberg's The Father.

Gary Naylor sees a rare revival of one of Gaetano Donizetti's many works and finds it lovely to listen to and as packed with emotion as one has come to expect from Italian opera.

This May, Katy Lipson of Aria Entertainment presents the world premiere of a new musical The Verb, 'To Love' by Andy Collyer.

Behind closed doors is an opportunity to change the game.

A Little Angel Theatre and Polka Theatre co-production THE PAPER DOLLS runs at Little Angel Theatre, 18 April - 28 June 2015.

International theatre producer David King is delighted to announce that the singer-songwriter, actor and winner of hit TV shows Dancing On Ice, Dancing on Ice - All Stars, Ray Quinn, will be joining the UK Tour of JUDY - THE SONGBOOK OF JUDY GARLAND.

A HEART-WARMING wartime tale of bravery and love comes to The Marlowe Studio next month (April).

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 on Tues 24 and Wed 25 March 2015.

Internationally-acclaimed Kneehigh Theatre is bringing a spellbinding new production of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca to Canterbury later this month (March).

?Six guide dog puppies have visited The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, as part of their training.

Blythe Duff is to appear on the Citizens stage as author, historian and journalist Gitta Sereny in Into That Darkness, a chilling dramatisation of interviews with a convicted Nazi war criminal, opening at the theatre on Monday 18 May until Saturday 30 May.

Circolombia took the Roundhouse by storm back in 2011 with the explosive sell-out hit URBAN.