UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1139

In a production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, and another in its acclaimed series introducing Canada's finest playwrights to the UK, the European premiere of Daniel Macdonald's Velocity opens at the Finborough Theatre for a limited run of nine Sunday and Monday evening and Tuesday matinee

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Stage One, the charity that supports new UK commercial theatre producers and productions, today announces the latest recipient of its Start-Up Investment Fund.

Morphic Graffiti have announced a bold new interpretation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, which will play at Arcola Theatre from Wednesday 18 June (press night Monday 23 June at 7.

33 tells the tale of the thirty three men stuck half a mile under the ground, the journalists in the desert above them and the world that watched them from afar.

Kidnapped - the latest production from Sell A Door Theatre Company - has been touring the UK since January.

Scott Maslen, best known as Jack Branning from EastEnders, will star in Aladdin, this year's Marlowe Theatre pantomime.

Robyn Keynes and Theatre in Heights presents EAST OF BERLIN by Hannah Moscovitch and directed by Blythe Stewart, with design by Holly Pigott.

Wes Anderson's biggest selling hit, The Grand Budapest Hotel, will now be presented by Secret Cinema for one further week, until 6 April 2014, running in a secret Central London location.

Dirty Dancing is billed as being 'the classic story on stage', and it doesn't disappoint in its promise, bringing the characters of the ever-popular 1980s film to life for audiences across the UK.

Following on from the hugely successful production of Caryl Churchill's A Number, Nuffield continues its season of work exploring the interaction between the arts and science by launching the inaugural Fulcrum Southampton festival.

This Easter, Unicorn's Artistic Director Purni Morell (A Winter's Tale & Dora) directs Margery Williams' timeless classic,The Velveteen Rabbit in a large-scale stage adaptation for the whole family.

Paul Tyrer and Jamie Clark for The Booking Office in association with Belgrade Theatre, Coventry present the world premiere of THE MUMMY based (very loosely indeed) on Bram Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars.

Above The Stag presents: a new musical based on the lives of gay playwright Joe Orton and his lover (and murderer) Kenneth Halliwell.

Following on from the successful run of Opera Naked at the St.

Citizens Theatre Artistic Director Dominic Hill takes on a new production of Stephen Jeffreys' raunchy and bawdy historical drama The Libertine as the finale to his Spring 2014 Season.

Opening at Windsor's Theatre Royal on May 19th before touring the UK this spring, All Creatures Great and Small stars Coronation Street's Oliver Mellor as the iconic vet, James Herriot and is accompanied by a star cast.

The production, produced by Sell a Door Theatre and Richard Darbourne Ltd opens at the Greenwich Theatre in London next month prior to a twenty four venue tour across the country from Inverness down to Poole.

Five years after Simon Gray's death, Hampstead Theatre is delighted to present this extraordinary cycle of his work: premieres of three unperformed plays alongside a revival of Japes, the play that started it all off.

Birdsong, the world famous novel by Sebastian Faulks, will be brought to life on stage at Exeter Northcott Theatre from Tuesday 6 - Saturday 10 May.

Game of Thrones actor Owen Teale will star in director Terry Hands' new production of Under Milk Wood, which comes to the Exeter Northcott Theatre in April.

Family theatre for curious minds will explode onto the Exeter Northcott Theatre in April as the Science Museum's The Energy Show looks to bring the subject of science to life in exciting new ways.

Children's favourites Charlie and Lola return to the Exeter Northcott Theatre this April with their best bestest play.

Grease is the word at the Exeter Northcott Theatre in April.

James McAnespy's comedy double bill brings GAA rivalries and Irish wakes to London stage! Upcoming playwright James McAnespy's comedy double bill brings the uniquely Irish situations of the contemporary wake house and the intensity of local GAA rivalries to the White Bear Theatre in April.