UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1072

West End star Jamie Birkett is visiting the region this Easter to run a series of workshops for budding performers.

The ever popular A Play, A Pie and A Pint series is once again on the menu at the Traverse Theatre this spring.

Firmly established on the international arts scene as one of the big four UK arts festivals, Norfolk & Norwich Festival continues to expand its horizons.

The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough is 60 this year and at the heart of the birthday celebrations are globally-renowned hits from its past and the world premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's 79th play.

Originally seen at the Union Theatre in 2009, Sasha Regan's acclaimed all-male production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance will return for its first UK Tour, opening at Richmond Theatre on Wednesday 15 April 2015, with a press night on Thursday 16 April 2015.

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The Finborough Theatre's acclaimed Celebrating British Music Theatre series continues with the first professional London production in over twenty years of Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida opening at the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season on Tuesday, 24 March 2015 (Press Night: Thu

JERRY'S GIRLS opens on Tuesday 3rd March at The St James Studio Theatre, London, Starring Anna-Jane Casey, Ria Jones and Sarah-Louise Young.

Headlong, Sheffield Theatres and Rose Theatre Kingston bring their new production of David Hare's The Absence of War, directed by Headlong Artistic Director Jeremy Herrin, to the Citizens Theatre from 31 March - 4 April.

Northern Ballet return to the Lyceum Theatre this spring with their dramatic adaptation of Emily Bronte's romantic masterpiece Wuthering Heights, from Wednesday 18 - Saturday 21 March.

Last autumn, dramatist and novelist Michael Frayn published his latest and most unusual book, Matchbox Theatre - a series of conversations, sketches and meditations with the Michael Frayn twist - which takes a typically funny and ingenious look at how we live today.

Debuting earlier this month in Chichester, The King's Speech opened to critical acclaim.

Amused Moose Piccadilly, presenting top comedy in the swishest venue in town at Soho's Sanctum Hotel, returns tonight 27 February 2015.

Family relationships are explored in two shows at The Marlowe Studio, Canterbury, next month.

Following a hugely successful, critically acclaimed season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 the Reduced Shakespeare Company will set out to reduce the UK to tears of laughter in Spring 2015.

A NEW bursary fund has been set up to help young people in the district join The Marlowe Youth Theatre.

Pam Ann, the world's favourite International Air Hostess and Queen of the Sky, is back in the UK with a brand new show for 2015.

Acclaimed writing team George Stiles and Anthony Drewe are to host a concert featuring emerging musical theatre writers at the St James Studio on 19th April.

Casting is announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) summer productions of The Merchant of Venice and Othello, running in repertoire in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and broadcast worldwide 'Live from Stratford-upon-Avon'.

The play that earned emerging playwright Simon Longman a Channel 4 bursary returns to stages up and down the country this Spring as Pentabus tour this comic and moving depiction of rural unemployment.

An original production, Extraordinary opens at Carriageworks Theatre today, 26th February, at 2pm and 7:30pm.

Timed for the centenary of the First World War, Terry Johnson's revival of Oh! What A Lovely War still packs a serious satirical punch.

Yarico is a powerful, epic musical about forbidden love, betrayal and redemption, based on a true story that fired the world's imagination and contributed to the social movement against the slave trade.

A new production of Rum and Vodka by seminal Irish playwright Conor McPherson is presented at the Citizens Theatre.

Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright performs Live at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday 12 July 2015 as one of a select number of solo UK dates this Summer.