UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1205

On the day it's announced that Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, will open the 66th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday May 15, Ruby in the Dust's acclaimed stage production will return for a further London season at Riverside Studios the same week.

Based on August Strindberg's 1888 play Miss Julie, Mies Julie transfers the action from a Count's estate in Sweden to a powerful (unseen) white farmer's house in modern-day post-apartheid South Africa.

Direct from the West End, Broadway and twenty-five countries around the globe, the Olivier and Tony award-winning production of The 39 Steps comes to the Lyceum Theatre from Tuesday 2 - Saturday 6 April.

Paper Dolls will, due to popular demand, extend its run until 28 April 2013.

Post-It Productions presents GAMEPLAN by Alan Ayckbourn, being performed at THE HEN AND CHICKENS tonight, 12th - 16th March 2013.

OutFox Productions presents Rope by Patrick Hamilton, running Tuesday 9 April to Saturday 27 April 2013.

Producer Carl Leighton-Pope announces that Aaron Sidwell and Matthew Wycliffe will join the cast of Carnaby Street The Musical.

December 8, 1980, 10.

For the third consecutive year, on 23 March 2013 at 8.

Theatre503's Artistic Director Paul Robinson has announced the cast for the venue's first Second Look production, Simon Donald's Evening Standard Award-winning play The Life of Stuff.

BEING TOMMY COOPER, a new play by Tom Green, will begin a 39-date national tour at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre on Friday 3 May starring Damian Williams as Tommy Cooper.

Little Angel Theatre is committed to helping new and emerging artists to explore and research new work, discovering the parameters and possibilities of puppetry.

Gary Naylor sees a lesson in the dangers of pride and ambition.

In Tir Sir Gar, A Rural Vision, artists respond to the current crisis in the farming and food industry with a groundbreaking multimedia event.

THE BIG BITE-SIZE BREAKFAST, the critically acclaimed, award winning Bite-Size Plays will be performing at the Brighton Theatre Royal - the very first time this venue has been used in the Fringe Festival.

American writer and performer Peter Michael Marino performs his hit solo show Desperately Seeking The Exit - a comedic autopsy about his flop West End show Desperately Seeking Susan - The Musical, at Komedia Studio, Brighton on 7 and 14 May 2013, as part of this year's Brighton Fringe.

ONE BILLION RISING UK ART FESTIVAL will present a benefit production of Eve Ensler's THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES on Saturday 16th March 2013 at 7.

Official London Theatre's annual season of Theatreland Walking Tours is on sale now with a new route confirmed for the classic History of Theatreland Walking Tour departing this spring, and the return of the Haunted Theatreland Walking Tour later in the year, both led once again by London Blue Badge

Little Angel Theatre announces its second PUPPETS ON FILM FESTIVAL from 12-14 April 2013 in Islington.

Following the overwhelming audience response and unprecedented ticket demand for the recently opened production of Piaf,Curve has announced additional performance dates from 3 - 6 April 2013.

For Spring 2013 the Ustinov Studio presents an American Season, its anticipated fourth season of new commissions and UK premieres, running from tonight, 7th March - Saturday 15th June 2013.

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.

A glimpse of Mediterranean summer sunshine is arriving at The Lost Theatre, Vauxhall this March in the shape of Mile High - the musical.

Post-It Productions presents GAMEPLAN by Alan Ayckbourn, being performed at THE HEN AND CHICKENS on 12th - 16th March 2013.

Stagecoach Theatre Arts will perform CATS, by arrangement with The Really Useful Group Ltd at The National Indoor Arena in Birmingham on 24th March 2013.