UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1192

The brand new stage production of ITV's top comedy of all time, Rising Damp, visits the Lyceum Theatre from Monday 24 - Saturday 29 June, directed by the show's original star, Don Warrington.

Glasgow is set to be haunted by not one Phantom but three as the Theatre Royal will play host to what has become the most exciting concert phenomenon to tour the UK in recent years!

Cuckoo Bang Productions will present BETWEEN TEN AND SIX by Chris Mayo at The Brighton Fringe.

Award winning play The Rise and Demise of Kenneth Kennedy-Smythe makes a welcome return after seven years to celebrate ten years of Studio Salford.

Brighton's legendary Poets vs MCs event has become an unmissable fixture in Brighton's cultural calendar - now in its 10th year, it's sold out venues as large as the Concorde 2 and involves more spats, cusses and wordplay than any hip-hop album you could name.

STELLA , a new play about time, space, women and astronomy, will premiere at the Brighton Fringe Festival {Wed 29 & Thurs 30 May} and then tour to The Rose Theatre Kingston (Tues 4 June), Norden Farm (Tues 11 June), Alan Ayckbourn's Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough (Fri 21June), Oxford Playhous

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Fresh from the critically acclaimed West End production One Man, Two Guvnors, Rufus Hound has been confirmed in the cast of Neville's Island at Chichester's Theatre in the Park this summer.

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Frazer Flintham's darkly comic, dynamic new play, 179 Hackney Road explores where our society has come from and where we might be heading.

Oliver Meech brings his unique magic-meets-science show back to the Brighton Fringe, following sell-out performances at Brighton Fringe 2012, Oxford Fringe and Green Man Festival.

Down Home and Saria Idana have announced that Homeless in Homeland will have its UK/International premiere at Brighton Fringe, in Brighton, UK with 3 shows today, May 27th and May 28th, and 29th, 2013.

Irresponsible Decorators- Theatre Company will bring 76 Million People and Me to Brighton Fringe 2013.

The quintessential "roaring twenties" story - the heightened style of musical theatre actually really suits the exaggerated characters and their lavish lifestyle.

High Fell Productions in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents THE BLOOD IS STRONG by David Hutchison.

What is it about puppets and the seaside? As weird and wonderful as spotting a striped Punch and Judy tent hovering near the tideline, Brighton's puppetry community is sprouting invention in all kinds of unexpected places this Fringe.

The world premiere of David Hutchison's new play The Blood is Strong plays for a limited run of six Today and Monday evening and Tuesday matinee performances from Today, 26 May 2013 (Press Night: Monday, 27 May 2013), directed by Bruce Guthrie.

How well do you know those who are closest to you? In three powerful and moving monologues, Martin Foreman lays bare the lives of three very different Californians in CALIFORNIA LIVES.

"Betsy: Wisdom of a Brighton Whore" combines a gripping plot from award-winning writer Jonathan Brown, passionate acting from Hove-based actor Rachel Guershon, and a deeply atmospheric venue in Brighton's Old Police Cells Museum creating an incredibly intense drama, set in Victorian Brighton.

Critically acclaimed Smoking Apples bring their flagship show The Wordcatcher to the Brighton Fringe this May.

Over a decade after its Los Angeles debut, cult musical Bare to get its European premiere at the Union Theatre Union Theatre 204 Union Street Southwark Bare runs at the Union Theatre from 24 April - 25 May, Tuesday to Sunday at 7:30pm.

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Michael Lindall is the face of London's latest Jay Gatsby as Ruby in the Dust's acclaimed stage version of the American literature classic The Great Gatsby returns to the London stage the very same week as Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby Hollywood movie opens in the UK.

In its first outing since 1994, the acclaimed show, Night After Night is set to grace the stage of The Marlborough Theatre as part of Pink Fringe's program of events this Brighton Fringe.

Further casting has been announced for the four new in-house productions which will make up the 2013 Summer Season Theatre Royal Bath.