UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1148

Northern Broadsides and the New Vic Theatre are set to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War with the world premiere of Deborah McAndrew's moving new play An August Bank Holiday Lark.

Windswept Productions are thrilled to announce they are to start work researching and developing their second production.

This was the headline that inspired Fringe First winning director Emma Callander (Associate Director of the Traverse Theatre and Co-Artistic Director of Theatre Uncut) and writer Tom Wainwright (Muscle, Pedestrian and Buttercup) to create Banksy: The Room In the Elephant.

Coventry's Belgrade Theatre has reported that its latest pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk brightened up Christmas for almost 40,000 people, making it the theatre's most successful panto in the last 10 years.

New Shoes Theatre returns to the Finborough Theatre with Hurried Steps as part of their 2014 International Women's Day tour, playing for one performance only on Thursday, 6 March 2014 at 2.

Lost Boy will end its current five-week season at Charing Cross Theatre as planned on Saturday 15 February.

Aria Entertainment and the Landor Theatre as part of the annual From Page to Stage festival have announced a preview screening of Big Society the Musical alongside a special Q&A with the creative team on Thursday 13th February as part of this years festival.

Inspired by legendary Saturday morning TV shows such as Tiswas and Going Live, Never Try This At Home, the latest show from the critically acclaimed Told by an Idiot, opens at Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 27 February to 15 March.

The producers of the MAMMA MIA! International Tour have announced extra dates at the Blackpool Opera House this summer.

Following two sold out runs at the Young Vic in 2011 and 2012, Sound&Fury's mesmerising Going Dark comes to the Science Museum this spring as part of a national tour, reawakening our wonder at the cosmos and revealing how one man's vision becomes illuminated by darkness.

Starring Lucy Speed (EastEnders and The Bill) and presented by Fifth World, Amateur Girl is inspired by real-life stories.

A hard-hitting new dance theatre show from State of Emergency will be appearing at Exeter Northcott Theatre in February.

THE MARLOWE Theatre is marking the 450th anniversary of the birth of its playwright namesake with a season of performances and talks.

Fresh from his role with The Book of Mormon, Haydn Oakley stars as Gilbert Chilvers.

Ray Shell's West End career has embraced starring roles in many of the greatest musicals of the past 30 years, from Hair and Starlight Express to The Bodyguard.

The last time I saw Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was during the 2006 UK Productions tour which starred Dave Willetts and Shona Lindsay; a production that is close to my heart as it is one of the shows that made me want to pursue a career in theatre.

Following the critical success of Little Shop of Horrors, the King's Arms Theatre artistic director James Baker is delighted to announce the venue's next big in house event Mashed Up North.

The Old Market Presents their Spring 2014 Programme, 48 peformances that will span from February to April 2014.

Now in it's 8th Annual Edition, London Burlesque Festival 2014 will be running for 11 sizzling evenings of sultry entertainment 15-25 May, making it the largest International Burlesque Festival of it's kind!

On Tuesday, 11 February, Blackadder and Time Team star Sir Tony Robinson opens Re-staging Revolutions at Camden Archives, an exhibition celebrating the alternative theatre movement of the sixties, seventies and eighties.

Red Bastard comes to The Pleasance London, produced by Adamotions, in association with Playfool Productions.

Hampstead Downstairs will present In The Vale Of Health: Japes / Michael / Japes Too / Missing Dates.

Gary Naylor sees one of his favourite plays from last year now delivered bigger, brighter and just as bungled, as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society starts its UK tour.

Leading playwright Mark Ravenhill curates an exciting and diverse programme of events themed around the plays of Bertolt Brecht at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre this spring.

Following a hugely successful run at Chichester's Minerva Theatre last year Julian Mitchell's ANOTHER COUNTRY, directed by Jeremy Herrin, transfers to the Trafalgar Studios, Studio 1 for a limited season, 26th March - 21st June.