UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1075

Having kicked off its 21st anniversary with an eclectic winter season, Jermyn Street Theatre today announces a season of new comedies that will carry it forward through the spring and into the summer.

It is now just over a month until the new stage play version of Helen Forrester's hit musical Twopence To Cross The Mersey embarks on a six-week tour of four Merseyside theatres.

The Tabard Theatre in West London plays host to Alan Ayckbourn's TIME OF MY LIFE for a limited run, Tuesday 3rd - Saturday 28th March 2015, directed by Law Ballard.

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre has today announced that John Altman will join the cast the swashbuckling pantomime adventure Peter Pan, playing the dastardly pirate Captain Hook.

After wowing crowds and the Olivier Award judges, Top Hat is touring the country bringing its infectious enthusiasm and the spirit of Fred Astaire around the country.

Gary Naylor sees a fascinating, powerful play that examines the life of cult Hollywood director James Whale, a man wrestling with a past and present that grants him no comfort at the end of a long and fulfilling life.

Contemporary performance company Drunken Chorus will premiere their new show tonight and tomorrow, February 11 and 12, 2015 as part of FIRST Festival of solo performance at The Tristan Bates Theatre in London.

The larger-than-life musical will be at The Marlowe Theatre in February 2015 on its first tour of the UK.

HINT OF LIME PRODUCTIONS, in association with The King's Head Theatre, presents MRS ROOSEVELT FLIES TO LONDON.

The Dogs of War, a new play from acclaimed playwright Tim Foley, will receive its London premiere at the Old Red Lion from May 26 to June 20, directed by Tom O'Brien.

Gary Naylor sees a revival of a 1963 musical that looks gorgeous and is filled with lovely melodies, but doesn't reach its potential due to its leads not quite sparking as lovers.

?Following the publication of his autobiography, Only When I Laugh, and over a decade of sell-out seasons at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Paul Merton will take to the road again in 2015 with his world renowned Impro Chums.

Today the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) launches Shakespeare's Birthday Song Competition.

Royal Shakespeare Company has announed its Stratford-Upon Avon winter 2015 artistic program, including making the 600th anniversary of Agincourt and continues Shakespeare's Histories with Gregory Doran's production of Henry V, also screened 'Live from Stratford-upon-Avon' to cinemas and schools, Jon

Families from across Coventry and Warwickshire can look forward to a bumper week of fun-packed entertainment this Half Term at the Belgrade Theatre with the arrival of new children's play, Only A Day from Sat 7 - Sat 21 Feb and the return of the Belgrade's popular February Half Term Camp.

Cameron Mackintosh and Michael Harrison have announced the Cameron Mackintosh and Chichester Festival Theatre smash hit production of the musical "BARNUM" starring Brian Conley as 'PT Barnum' and Linzi Hateley as 'Chairy' is coming to the King's Theatre Glasgow from Tuesday 31 March until Saturday 4

THE MARLOWE Studio, Canterbury, continues to prove itself as Kent's home of new writing, gigs, comedy and contemporary theatre.

The Ustinov Studio, Bath has announced the cast for the first production in its spring 2015 season, the UK premiere of Pavel Pryazhko's wickedly funny comedy, THE HARVEST, directed by Michael Boyd.

These Trees Are Made of Blood, a new play about Argentina's Dirty War, will play in The Little at Southwark Playhouse from Wednesday 18 March to Saturday 11 April 2015, with a press night on Friday 20 March at 8.

The producers of Oh What a Lovely War have teamed up with digital hub TheatreCloud.

CANADA'S internationally-acclaimed circus Cirque Eloize return to The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, next month.

Essence of Ireland is set to hit the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon on 09 April 2015 with its powerful new touring production.

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.

The casting was revealed today for a compelling black comedy Charlie's Dark Angel, which opens at London's intimate Drayton Arms Theatre on 03 March.

BACK DOWN is the highly anticipated first play by Birmingham-born Steven Camden, more commonly known as the award-winning performance poet Polarbear.