UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1086

Gary Naylor sees another spectacular Christmas production at Chickenshed, an uplifting vision of humanity and a wonderfully entertaining show.

A fun and fabulous evening was had by all at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry last night for their panto press night.

Award-winning composer / performer duo Harry Blake and Alice Keedwell are delighted to announce their return to VAULT in 2015.

The inaugural Theatre503 Playwriting Award took a surprise turn today as the judges announced not one but two winners of the much sought-after prize, which had received over 1,600 hopeful applications from 41 countries.

The 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting today announced its judging panel ahead of this year's official launch on 29 January 2015, which will also mark the Prize's 10th anniversary.

Riding the zeitgeist in unmatchable style since 2007, the UK's sharpest, darkest musical siblings Bourgeois & Maurice descend on The Marlborough Theatre for a night of scabrous satire and skin-tight catsuits.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's classic novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, critically-acclaimed theatre company Les Enfants Terribles (The Vaudevillains; The Trench) will bring Wonderland to the capital with Alice's Adventures Underground, in an adaptation by Oliver Lans

Multi award-winning theatre company, LAStheatre's latest immersive production, New Atlantis, will premiere in London in January 2015 at The Crystal - a futuristic, sustainable venue.

Inspired by true political events, this provocative new work by the Writers' Guild Award winning playwright of At the Gates of Gaza unravels the fight for diversity and representation in contemporary politics, dissecting one of the most controversial issues concerning our parliamentary process today

Gary Naylor sees a promising, if overly long and shouty, comedy set in a City office that isn't coping too well with the financial and social backlash of the 2008 recession.

Coventry's Belgrade Theatre has reported that its latest pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk brightened up Christmas for almost 40,000 people, making it the theatre's most successful panto in the last 10 years.

Madani Younis, Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre, today announced his new season, which will consist of four new plays, each of which deals in a different way with a struggle for justice.

Get ready for razzle dazzle, bright lights, family favourites and sing-along songs as Bardic Theatre gets set to bring Broadway back to your doorstep this New Year in an all new musical explosion!

A major revival of Willy Russell's Educating Rita will open the Playhouse's 2015 Spring Season.

Music legend turns master storyteller as TOMMY STEELE takes to the stage to narrate the extraordinary tale of the world's most famous big band leader, accompanied by a live 16-piece Glenn Miller orchestra and a full supporting company of singers, dancers and actors.

Best known for his idiosyncratic turns in Monty Phython and Fawlty Towers, Cleese brings his unique comedic perspective to The Marlowe Theatre with tales from his new book, So, Anyway.

On 26 and 27 November 2014, Musical Theatre students from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (Central) will return to Derby for their third annual residency at Derby Live and their touring production of 'The Man of Mode'.

Due to popular demand the international hit exhibition will now display until April 12th.

The Exeter Northcott Theatre will welcome The Birmingham Stage Company with their production of George's Marvellous Medicine for Christmas 2014.

Following this Autumn's sell-out 1930s programme, Jermyn Street Theatre's Artistic Director Anthony Biggs announces a season of two premieres and a revival to kick off the theatre's twenty-first anniversary year.

Gary Naylor enjoys his first experience of opera beamed from the New York Met into the cinemas of the UK.

It's been 10 years since The Circus Project, became a charity.

HOME, the organisation formed by the merger of Manchester's Library Theatre Company and Cornerhouse, presents Re:play Festival 2015, from Monday 12 - Saturday 24 January 2015, at Number One First Street.

Riding the zeitgeist in unmatchable style since 2007, the UK's sharpest, darkest musical siblings Bourgeois & Maurice descend on The Marlborough Theatre for a night of scabrous satire and skin-tight catsuits.

Liverpool's Unity Theatre is delighted to announce the appointment of Matthew Linley as Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer.