UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1141

A brand new dance-theatre adaptation of Barry Hines' classic novel A Kestrel For A Knave has its world premiere at the Crucible Theatre from Thursday 27 March to Saturday 5 April, and is one of the first events in the Yorkshire Festival 2014.

Gary Naylor sees a script by Ben Elton and songs by Rod Stewart give a old school night's entertainment with Tonight's the Night.

Thirty One Productions is proud to present, by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd, BASH Latterday Plays by Neil LaBute.

Rehearsals started today for the second play in the Ustinov Studio's American Season, the UK premiere of A STEADY RAIN by Keith Huff.

Winner of the 36th Premi Born de Teatre and the Barcelona Theatre Institute's Staging Projects Award (2011), El Principi d'Arquimedes by Catalan playwright Josep Maria Miro i Coromina comes to the Park Theatre for the UK premiere of the English translation by Dustin Langan, Archimedes' Principle.

De Profundis, a new musical by Paul Dale Vickers, based on the letter playwright Oscar Wilde wrote to his young lover, Bosie, from his prison cell in Reading jail in 1897, has won Leicester Square Theatre's The New Musical Project, and will premiere in a six-week season in The Lounge at Leicester Sq

Sinatra: The Main Event was billed as the biggest comeback in showbusiness history - now the 40th anniversary is to be marked in the UK with a stunning recreation of The Main Event, exactly as it happened at New York's Madison Square Garden on October 13, 1974.

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.

Sheffield Theatres has presented a cheque for £2300 to Sheffield Food banks following a collection made by the Theatre during a performance of their smash-hit production of Oliver! this January.

It's hard to watch - it really is.

Is there room for another re-working of 'The Strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde'? I'd have said no.

Arcola Theatre is delighted to present the Spanish Golden Age Season, a repertory season celebrating one of the most prolific periods in the history of Spanish theatre and art, from Thursday 9 January to Today 15 March 2014

A REVIVAL of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre's critically-acclaimed production Eternal Love comes to The Marlowe Theatre next month (April).

Gary Naylor sees the Jedward de nos jours (well, not really - they're much batter than them) sing classics and charm old and young alike.

Swindon Dance in partnership with South Asian Performing Arts Centre presents 'Jugni' by Sonia Sabri Company tonight 14th March at 7.

Perfect Pitch Artistic Director Wendy Barnes and Royal & Derngate Artistic Director James Dacre are delighted to announce the finalist writing teams for the 2013/14 Perfect Pitch Award.

Following a break of six years, Band of Gold star Cathy Tyson returns to the stage this Spring in Sarah Naomi Lee's bitter sweet black hair salon drama Snakes and Ladders.

Thanks to director Ray Rackham's gentle, uncluttered approach, a bouncy score played wonderfully by musical director Thomas Lees and a small but strikingly talented cast of four, this brisk 80-minute soujourn to the Big Apple is consistently and undeniably enjoyable.

Gary Naylor sees a very individual all-male production of Shakespeare's multi-layered comedy.

The National Theatre's award-winning comedy directed by Nicholas Hytner, One Man, Two Guvnors comes to the King's Theatre Glasgow on Monday 30 June until Saturday 5 July as part of a thirty-seven city tour of the UK & Ireland.

After entertaining and scaring audiences on its West End return, the acclaimed GHOST STORIES has announced an extension at London's Arts Theatre until Sunday 17 August 2014

Seabright Productions and Fitzrovia Productions present THE FITZROVIA RADIO HOUR, featuring three radio plays performed live: The Man Who Was Ten Minutes Late, Undead Queen of Evil and Tin! The show will play St.

Birmingham Hippodrome has confirmed Hotel La Tour as a headline sponsor for its fifth Gala Dinner.

Sheffield Theatres will be one of 26 regional theatres taking part in National Theatre Connections, a festival dedicated to showcasing the work of young performers, later this month.

Hairspray seems to have been doing the rounds in the UK since it closed in the West End in 2010.