UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1079

Gary Naylor sees a brilliantly staged update of Shakespeare's tale of jealousy, love and misunderstandings that reaches out to a young audience and may hook them forever.

The Nissan Adventure Film Festival is travelling the length and breadth of the UK in January and February 2015 screening 11 of the world's most pioneering adventure and action sports films.

Full casting is announced today for the first production in the Gate Theatre's Freedom Burning season, Andrew Whaley's award-winning play The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco - a witty and energised allegory of life in post-colonial Zimbabwe.

The UK premiere of this production of Bad Jews was a sell out at the Ustinov Studio, Bath earlier this year, where it earned huge critical acclaim for its hilarious script and sharp performances.

The Belgrade Theatre will host to a new UK tour of Alan Bennett's multi award-winning play The History Boys, which returns in 2015, playing at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre from Tues 3 - Sat 7 Feb.

Tyrone Huggins' compelling play, The Honey Man, opens at Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 16 to 21 February before a UK tour.

Gary Naylor takes his seat to watch a live transmission of a classic operetta beamed from The Big Apple to The Big Smoke and losing little en route.

Gary Naylor sees a poignant, funny, disorienting monologue about a man who is not from here, but appears to be inside all of us, somewhere.

Today, January 17 2015, actor Ray Winstone will be in Buckinghamshire at the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre to meet the new company for Bravo 22 and also introduce them to some of the original cast.

Gary Naylor sees a production that squeezes an epic play into a tiny space, capturing its essence, if not quite its clarity.

Direct from London (where it was seen live on stage by nearly a million people), the production is based on the award-winning DreamWorks animation film and brings the much-loved characters to life.

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), the world's number one live theatre company, has appointed leading UK theatre executive Stuart Griffiths in the new role of Programming Director as the company continues its UK and international expansion.

The Tron Theatre will welcome back Stellar Quines, the Scottish company that celebrates the energy, experience and perspective of women, to our main house space this spring with a new play by the award-winning comedian Lucy Porter.

The full cast has been announced for the new stage play of Helen Forrester's Twopence To Cross The Mersey, which tours four Merseyside theatres in the Spring.

Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Jay Z, LMFAO, The Police, David Guetta (as well as Vivaldi and Prokofiev) provide the hit tunes as the greatest love story of all time bursts into the 21st century in a phenomenal dance adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's critically acclaimed production of classic American novel To Kill A Mockingbird comes to the Lyceum Theatre from Tuesday 27 - Saturday 31 January.

Tonight 16 January 2015, Amused Moose Piccadilly brings comedy to the swishest venue in town at Soho's Sanctum Hotel.

Charles Court Opera is to celebrate its 10th anniversary with the premiere of a Hammer Horror-inspired version of Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore.

Nicholas Pinnock (Top Boy, Fortitude) will star as Jay Jackson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, in The Royale, written by Marco Ramirez (Orange is the New Black), directed by Madani Younis (artistic director of the Bush Theatre), and loosely based on the true story of the boxer Ja

After becoming an 2014 Edinburgh Fringe sensation with a completely sold-out debut run, followed by a highly successful stop off at the Brighton Comedy Festival, she's back! Britain's first female Prime Minister stars in a drag comedy musical extravaganza like no other!

English Repertory Theatre's Hamlet will run Feb 17th - Mar 15th 2015 at The Cockpit.

BackHere! Theatre Company is proud to announce the cast of their upcoming Arts Council funded production of Adam Hughes' Marching on Together, which opens at the Old Red Lion in February.

One of the great comic stories of the last four decades, Educating Rita comes to the Mercury Theatre Colchester this February.

Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy HARVEY directed by Lindsay Posner, will open at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 6 February, running until 21 February.

Hampstead Theatre has announced Tiger Country will be Free Streamed worldwide on the final night, Saturday 17 January at 7.