UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1149

Following 2 scratch performances at The King's Head Theatre earlier this year, Sochi 2014 comes to the brand new Hope Theatre in N1 to coincide with the real Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

Birmingham Hippodrome is delighted to announce that one of the most popular dance productions ever staged, Matthew Bourne'S multi award-winning hit SWAN LAKE, will return to Birmingham Hippodrome from today 5 -Saturday 15 February 2014.

Coventry's Belgrade Theatre is beating the winter blues with a fresh adaptation of classic comedy The Alchemist, which updates the corruption and crookery of this timeless tale from 17th century London to modern day Coventry.

This half term Coventry's Belgrade Theatre welcomes the return of Horrible Histories and their new show Barmy Britain which will provide family fun during the school holidays from Tues 18 to Sat 22 Feb.

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

Sheffield Theatres will welcome classic American musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers to the Lyceum Theatre from Monday 10 February to Saturday 15 February.

A MAGICAL production of the classic children's book Tom's Midnight Garden comes to The Marlowe Theatre for the half-term holiday.

London's world famous Hippodrome Casino is set to fill a void in the West End's party scene with the launch of two new regular nights in March.

Battersea's Theatre503 and Anchra Productions have announced the cast for DOG DAYS, the debut play by Annie Hulley.

After a successful three month tour of the UK and West End last year, Miss Nightingale - the musical by Matthew Bugg is to tour again this spring.

Northern Outlet Theatre Company has announced their forthcoming production of Bill Naughton's Spring And Port Wine at The King's Arms in Salford, running 12th - 15th February as part of the Mashed Up North Season.

Propeller's A Midsummer Night's Dream (currently touring along with The Comedy of Errors) is a riotous spectacle of a production.

Is someone born bad, or does society make them that way - Who's to blame? That's the big question underpinning CARTHAGE, which had its world premiere at the Finborough Theatre last night.

Through the haze of fatigue, parents can only just recall the early days of child-rearing.

VAULT, the six-week cultural festival in the labyrinthine tunnel network in Waterloo, opened on 28th January 2014.

Coventry's Belgrade Theatre has announced that writer Alan Pollock, who penned the theatre's hit Coventry Blitz play One Night in November, has joined the theatre's Board of Directors and acclaimed children's theatre director Tony Graham will be joining the team as Creative Associate.

Sheffield Theatres today announces four new shows that go on sale this weekend, as part of the company's spring and summer seasons in 2014.

The Tabard Theatre has teamed up with innovative theatre company Micawber to present the world premiere of a new adaptation of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman, Laurence Sterne's celebrated anti-novel, 18 February to 1 March

Lazarus Theatre Compay is proud to present William Shakespeare's Richard II, 4th-29th March 2014, Tuesday-Saturday at 8:00pm at The Blue Elephant Theatre.

Broadway's golden age of musical theatre wouldn't be what it is today without the incredibly talented Jewish composers and lyricists of the 20th century.

The first ever production in more than fifty years of Terence Rattigan's Variation on a Themeopens at the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre in a strictly limited four-week season fromTuesday, 25 February 2014, starring twice Olivier Award nominated Rachael Stirling.

Sheffield Theatres has been awarded the prestigious title of Regional Theatre of the Year 2014 at The Stage Awards today.

I will probably be thrown into the darkest depths of Musical Theatre Purgatory for saying this, but…West Side Story has never been a favourite of mine.

THE CHOIR of Canterbury Cathedral join Richard Alston Dance Company for a world premiere at The Marlowe Theatre next month.

Britain's biggest pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Birmingham Hippodrome, will complete its six and a half week runthis Sunday (2 Feb) having entertained over 115,000 theatregoers.