UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1114

Tonight's The Night, the hit musical comedy inspired by the songs of Rod Stewart, comes to Canterbury later this month.

Young female performers have the chance to appear in this year's Marlowe pantomime.

On Sunday July 20th at 7pm RICH MIX CINEMA will screen live from the 02 Arena the final night of the highly reviewed, totally sold out MONTY PYTHON reunion tour performed by Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle who reunite for Monty Python Live (mostly).

London dates announced! The epic theatrical bicycle tour continues - the Handlebards began their ride on 29 May in Surrey and tonight will perform at Skipton Castle.

The new comedy by Chris Larner, The Frida Kahlo of Penge West opens tonight at the Rosemary Branch, N1 and plays until 13 July.

This August, join Firwood Waterloo Rugby Club for Play Under the Posts as they present Off The Ground's first public performances of Jason & the Argonauts.

Dance Umbrella has announced that its application to Arts Council England (ACE) for National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) funding has been successful.

Suzanne Shaw is to join Paul Nicholas to star in the world premiere of BLOCKBUSTER The Musical, featuring the chart- busting hits of the legendary song-writing team Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, who dominated the pop world in the 1970's and 1980's.

Sheffield Theatres, current UK Regional Theatre of the Year (The Stage Awards), pushes its own desire to lead with the best home grown talent as it presents British icon Richard Wilson in Krapp's Last Tape, a play that explores the past through a series of memories and tape recordings.

BE FESTIVAL, Birmingham's festival celebrating the best of European theatre returns to the city and a new home at Birmingham Repertory Theatre this July.

Richard II by William Shakespeare, presented by Malachite Theatre Company, is playing at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch between Wed 2nd July and Sat 2nd Aug 2014.

Sue Buckmaster, one of the UK's leading puppetry practitioners and Artistic Director of Theatre-Rites is collaborating with the Little Angel's new Artistic Director and extraordinary puppeteer Adam Bennett, to bring you an exclusive scratch evening of live un-rehearsed, improvised puppetry.

There are few musicals as beautiful and unusual as Pacific Overtures and indeed there is nothing stranger than fact.

New English Ballet Theatre, founded by its Artistic Director Karen Pilkington-Miksa, made its successful debut at the Peacock Theatre in 2012.

BE FESTIVAL, Birmingham's festival celebrating the best of European theatre returns to the city and a new home at Birmingham Repertory Theatre this July.

January 2010 - an earthquake in Haiti leaves a hundred thousand people dead and almost two million homeless.

In 2012/13 Propeller performed for 32 weeks in the UK giving 195 performances to 72,867 people, 19,674 of whom were 21 or younger, with 80% of national reviews being 4star plus.

The first season with the Everyman and Playhouse back together has been extraordinary; thousands flocked to the opening weekend and the Everyman has since earned a national RIBA award and North West building of the year.

Twenty years after its explosive premiere at Hampstead Theatre - where it was denounced as 'pornographic' by The Guardian's Michael Billington and hailed by The Spectator as 'a masterpiece' - Ghost From A Perfect Place will have its first major revival at Arcola Theatre, directed by Russell Bolam, f

Sheffield Theatres has today announced that it will continue to be funded by Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO).

We are delighted to announce that Arts Council England has recognised the invigorating work and vision of the Exeter Northcott Theatre and has awarded funding under its National Portfolio Programme for 2015-2018.

Today the Unicorn Theatre has announced that it has received an uplift in its Arts Council investment of 30%, taking its annual grant to £1,303,884 from April '15.

The Arts Council England (ACE) today pledged its ongoing support to Coventry's Belgrade Theatre by approving the venue's proposal for funding for the period 2015-2018.

Based on the award winning picture book by Julia Donaldson & Lydia Monks, WHAT THE LADYBIRD HEARD will kick off a UK and international tour in 2014, stopping at Richmond and Cadogan Hall for a London summer season.

I was fortunate enough to see 20th Century Boy on its debut outing at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry back in September 2012 and it was probably the best show I had seen that year.