UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1101

Voted the nation's favourite play, Alan Bennett's multi award-winning The History Boys will return in 2015, visiting Swindon's Wyvern Theatre from Monday 1 to Saturday 6 June 2015 as part of a major new UK tour for 2015.

Gary Naylor sees an old-fashioned crowdpleaser of a musical, stuffed with the clever, catchy songs of all-time Broadway great Irving Berlin.

HOME, the organisation formed by the merger of Manchester's Library Theatre Company and Cornerhouse, will follow up their critically acclaimed sold-out production of Angel Meadow with a spectacular site-specific production of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy Romeo & Juliet in Manchester's historic Vic

London's fringe theatre scene is set to get bigger with the launch of the 100-seat Twickenham Theatre in West London.

South Staffs Musical Theatre Company (SSMTC), one of the Midlands best loved amateur companies return home to Wolverhampton Grand Theatre with their latest production, OLIVER! - the Lionel Bart musical based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Filiz Ozcan directs the European Premiere of Azerbaijani and Soviet writer Ilyas Afandiyev's play You're Always With Me - translated by Sanan Ailev at The Lost Theatre.

Jack Studio and Jake Costello present SPANK HOUSE, created by Jake Costello and running today, Tuesday 9 through Saturday 13 September at 8pm.

In Autumn 2014 Blackeyed Theatre Company tours Stephen MacDonald's Not About Heroes to over forty theatres across the UK .

The new musical drama Soviet Zion will make its debut in London this October.

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) - the world's number one live-theatre company - has won a Green Apple Environment Award in the national campaign to find Britain's greenest companies, councils and communities.

Gary Naylor sees a musical brimming with ambition and confidence flawed only by a slight weakness in its storytelling, the complexities of the great 19th century novel a little lost in the adaptation.

The National Theatre's award-winning comedy One Man, Two Guvnors comes to Canterbury September 19-October 4.

Young dancers from across the region will join professionals in Matthew Bourne's Lord Of The Flies, at The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, September 24-27.

Gary Nayor sees a production of Shakespeare's most loved comedy brimming with the traditional charm and wit one has come to expect from the Globe Theatre, about to tour the Far East.

Broadway Entertainment Group in association with New Adventures are delighted to announce that one of the most popular dance productions ever staged, MATTHEW BOURNE'S multi award-winning hit 'SWAN LAKE', will extend its current UK tour internationally from this month, September 2014.

HOME, the organisation formed by the merger of Manchester's Library Theatre Company and Cornerhouse, continues its programme of productions with three visiting shows for autumn 2014.

Grounded had its UK premiere at the Gate Theatre Notting Hill last year to critical acclaim, following achieving the 2012 Smith Prize from the National New Play Network in America and a 2013 Fringe First award.

Tooting Arts Club presents: Sweeney Todd.

Rediscovered by Finborough Theatre Artistic Director Neil McPherson, Rachel is a genuinely lost landmark of American theatre -- the first play by an African American woman ever produced professionally.

Helen Chadwick Song Theatre presents: War Correspondents.

Filiz Ozcan directs the European Premiere of Azerbaijani and Soviet writer Ilyas Afandiyev's play You're Always With Me - translated by Sanan Ailev at The Lost Theatre.

Following sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival, the Gate Theatre London and the Studio Theatre, Washington, the critically acclaimed production of George Brant's Grounded comes to Birmingham Repertory Theatre from tonight, 4 September, through 6 September.

Lenny Henry stars in the stage premiere of Rudy's Rare Records at Birmingham Repertory Theatre from tonight 4 - 20 September.

Emma Brünjes Productions presents DAME DIANA RIGG: NO TURN UNSTONED, a history and anecdotes of life in the theatre, (in aid of non-subsidised theatres and theatre companies*) at The Duchess Theatre, 3-5 Catherine St, London WC2B 5LA on Monday 20th October at 7.

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) is currently transforming its Front of House areas by installing a number of stylish lounges and concept bars.