UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1183

August's Live at The Hippodrome programme features a broad selection of music, comedy, cabaret and more including hip US singer and inimitable interpreter of the Great American Songbook James Torme; soulful jazz and blues diva Gill Manly; and an evening with Joe Longthorne, who will be returning to

This summer, Birmingham Hippodrome will be producing two major outdoor events bringing FREE theatre to the city and the theatre is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to act as ambassadors and be involved in two of the cultural highlights of the year:

As part of their commitment to building for the future, Nottingham Playhouse today announces the appointment of the acclaimed theatre maker Fiona Buffini in the newly created role of Associate Director.

Gary Naylor enters the world of Footballers' Wives (and Girlfriends)

David Hutchinson and Phillip Rowntree for Sell a Door Theatre Company in Association with Greenwich Theatre present Sincerely, Mr Toad, with Music by David Andrew Wilson, Book by David Hutchinson, and Lyrics with Katie McIvor.

DreamArts, the charity which creates opportunities for young people across inner London to learn through the creative arts, has announced that their next major project will be an adaptation of film director Shane Meadows' award-winning film TwentyFour Seven.

This summer, Birmingham Hippodrome's ever-popular workshops for Young Carers in the West Midlands return to the theatre for the seventh year from Monday 29 July - Friday 2 August 2013.

Performer Aisling Kiely brings Cinderella Lives! - her sexily-skewed solo retelling of the Cinderella story - to The Edinburgh Festival Fringe from the 3rd - 24th August.

Rose Theatre Kingston and English Touring Theatre will co-produce a new translation of Henrik Ibsen's classic, Ghosts this autumn.

LonDon Wonderground returns for its second year, bringing a piece of Coney Island to the South Bank of London.

Aria Entertainment in association with Goldstone has announced the launch of the new show Divas Through the Decades which will launch at London's Ashcroft Theatre on 18th October 2013.

For the first time ever, Terence Rattigan and John Gielgud's stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities will be produced on stage, directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher and opening at the King's Head Theatre on 25 September for a limited season, ending on 19 October.

The Boat Factory, a poignant and uplifting two-man play, will get its London premiere at the King's Head Theatre in a four-week season from tonight 23 July - Saturday 17 August, after winning acclaim at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival and transfering to New York.

Aria Entertainment in association with Goldstone has announced the launch of the new show Divas Through the Decades which will launch at London's Ashcroft Theatre on 18th October 2013.

Three adaptations by Howard Colyer have been staged at the Jack in the last eighteen months - KAFKA V KAFKA, TROJAN WOMEN and MANDRAKE.

Lucy Kirkwood's adaptation of The Brothers' Grimm's HANSEL & GRETEL, originally presented by the National Theatre, is the next production from the Library Theatre's Young Company, and will be its first collaboration with Cornerhouse's LiveWire.

"Without Papatango my play FOXFINDER would still have been languishing in the depths of my hard drive.

Birmingham Hippodrome is delighted to announce that one of the most popular dance productions ever staged, MATTHEW BOURNE'S multi award-winning hitSWAN LAKE, will return to Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday 5 -Saturday 15 February 2014.

A team of biking enthusiasts from the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) have raised over £9,700for Macmillan Cancer Support smashing their initial £2,500 target.

What is your ultimate dream? Take a risk and chase it! Tonight, July 21st, sees the first full-length preview of 'Something There That's Missing' at London's critically acclaimed Theatre 503.

UK audiences are in for a treat this Summer as Australian burlesque heroes Briefs are set to take the nation by storm with the European premiere of their brand new show.

Birmingham's award winning jazz musician Soweto Kinch and much loved Hip Hop theatre pioneer Jonzi D will be taking up residency at Birmingham Hippodrome for a week of intensive masterclasses developing upcoming talent.

Iris Theatre presents Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (adapted for the stage by Daniel Winder), directed by Andrew Lynford.

Sheffield Theatres and Evolution Pantomimes' have announced the cast of this year's spectacular family pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, alongside the news that Sheffield's Our Cow Molly dairy farm will sponsor the production.

Simon Evans directs the world premiere of this exciting new play by Maureen Chadwick, creator and writer of award-winning dramas Bad Girls, Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road.