UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1116

Russell Grant, star of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and one the country's best loved celebrities, is to star as the mysterious and sinister Mrs Meers in the UK fringe premiere of the six-time Tony Award-winning tap dancing musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie.

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After the success of their critically acclaimed production of Julius Caesar in 2013, Iris Theatre are returning for a sixth summer season of Shakespeare in the beautiful gardens of St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, in the heart of the West End.

Philippe Carden will present a reading of the original play, The Lady Revealed, based on the life and works of A.

Desire and Pursuit, three one-man plays about beauty, faith and obsession, presented in London before Edinburgh Fringe debut, will play the Etcetera Theatre, 265 Camden High Street London NW1 7BU, Tue - Sun 8 - 13 July 7.

The twenty act shortlist has today been announced for Circus Maximus 2014.

The Old Vic and Sonia Friedman Productions present Sophocles' ELECTRA, in a version by Frank McGuinness, starring Kristin Scott Thomas.

Banned by the Lord Chamberlain for its facetious and irreverent treatment of adultery, This Was A Man, a previously unseen play by Noel Coward, directed by actress Belinda Lang, opens for its long overdue UK professional premiere in a strictly limited three week season at the Finborough Theatre on T

Gary Naylor sees an evocation of a Seventies superstar in a jukebox musical that delivers all the crowdpleasing moments one could hope for, if ultimately feeling a little light on dramatic tension.

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After last year's acclaimed Thatcherwrite season at Theatre503, the 60 seat new writing powerhouse will continue their series of explorations into contemporary subjects - 503Features - with IS IT GETTING COLD IN HERE.

Ballast Theatre is proud to present Marriage by Nikolai Gogol and adapted by Howard Coyler a tthe Brockley Jack Studio Theatre.

LIFT 2014 presents After A War, today, 24 - 29 June 2014 at Southbank Centre and Battersea Arts Centre.

Joe Orton's comic masterpiece, Entertaining Mr Sloane will conclude its 50th Anniversary U.

Following on from the huge success of the 2013 national Family Arts Festival in which over 500,000 people took part across the UK, the 2014 Family Arts Festival will run its second year from 17 October to 2 November with Michael Morpurgo announced as patron and Center Parcs as a major new partner.

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) today launches a new corporate website www.

Artistic Director Anda Winters today announces that The Print Room will move to a new, permanent home in the stunning former Victorian playhouse - The Coronet, Notting Hill.

Joe Orton's comic masterpiece, Entertaining Mr Sloane will conclude its 50th Anniversary U.

Laid Bare Cabaret will feature burlesque, live music, magic, acrobatics and even pyrotechnics.

Today, 21st June, the Belgrade Theatre in association with JonquilsRose Events presents Belgrade Mela which will play host to a day-long celebration of South Asian arts.

After a spectacular 9 days of events the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival is over for another year, which reached its exciting climax on Sunday 15 June with an incredible 2,500 people in attendance at the ever popular Family Day at Sefton Park Palm House.

The longest-running show of any kind in the history of British theatre, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, will visit Exeter for a week in July.

The Wyvern Theatre and Crunch Coffee Shop have teamed up to offer visitors to Swindon's town centre one of fifty free banana milkshakes today, 20 June.

From the top of Greenwich Park Hill you can look out on one of most spectacular views of the capital - a city of ingenuity, creativity and resourcefulness.

Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF) is London's largest and longest established festival of free outdoor theatre and performing arts.