UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 124

Mercury Theatre Colchester has announced that The Ho Ho Ho! Christmas Show and a Meet Santa experience will be part of the theatre's Winter offerings this year.

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the cast for Hansel and Gretel.

Bill Kenwright's production of the international hit musical, Blood Brothers is on tour across the UK and is coming to Darlington Hippodrome next week.

Three cast members from Original Theatre’s stage tour of the epic First World War story of love and loss Birdsong have recorded poignant on-stage video readings of war poems chosen by the celebrated novel’s author, Sebastian Faulks.

Pilot Theatre and Hull Truck Theatre will present the premiere of MARY AND THE HYENAS by Maureen Lennon, featuring music by Billy Nomates, set to debut at Hull Truck Theatre and Wilton's Music Hall in early 2025.

The cast has been revealed for the limited UK tour of Gilbert and Sullivan's witty and touching masterpiece The Pirates of Penzance.

Discover the lineup for LATE NIGHT WITH TERRY WOGAN at Soho Theatre, featuring a range of special guests.

The Mercury Theatre has released photos from inside rehearsal for the 2024/5 pantomime, The New Adventures of Peter Pan, which will run from 23 November 2024 – 19 January 2025.

See photos from inside rehearsal for Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman, adapted for the stage by Robert Alan Evans, and directed by Rachel Bagshaw.

Centre Stage London will hold open auditions for the London premiere of Head Over Heels, the hit Broadway musical set to the music of 1980s icons, The Go-Go's.

The Crucible in Sheffield announced the full cast for DEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMAN, set to captivate audiences with its powerful narrative.

HighTide Rising will return this year with the one-day celebration featuring rehearsed readings of six extracts from new plays written by the inaugural HighTide Writers Group.

Kristin Scott Thomas and Johnny Flynn will perform alongside Mark Rylance – the venue's Patron – in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis on Sunday 17 November at 7.

Blackstock Market has opened its final two performance spaces at its popular Liverpool site.

As they prepare to hit the road for their annual The Good Times Christmas Tour, the UK’s top vocal harmony group are getting in the Christmas spirit early, with the release of Turn Your Light On.

ThickSkin and rural touring company Pentabus will team up to remount their 2023 co-production, Driftwood by Tim Foley.

Two tales by Edwardian scholar and mediaevalist MR James will come to Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre next month.

Dame Sarah the Cook is on the hunt for husbands, brothers, male bosses, and male friends over the age of 18 in Coventry this Christmas to take part in the Belgrade Theatre pantomime Dick Whittington.

‘We Are Ipswich’, an independent collective of nationally acclaimed arts and heritage organisations, is bringing the festive spirit to Suffolk like never before.

Ore Oduba will play the role of Caractacus Potts in the new production of the most fantasmagorical musical of all time CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, currently touring the UK.

Lies Where It Falls comes to the Finborough Theatre this month.

Sadler’s Wells and Uchenna Dance have announced the cast for Vicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu's immersive dance production, Our Mighty Groove, which will be the inaugural show at Sadler’s Wells East in February 2025.

Premiering his new solo queer thriller Smoke, playwright and performer Alexis Gregory is now returning to Kings Head Theatre for a limited run to investigate the blur between reality and fantasy in this post-truth era.

Critically acclaimed writer and actress, Alison Skilbeck, brings her award nominated show Alison Skilbeck's Uncommon Ground to The White Bear Theatre for one show only on Sunday 24 November.

'The Value of Names' by US playwright, Jeffrey Sweet, will have its UK premiere at The White Bear Theatre, Kennington, from Tuesday 11 February - Saturday 1 March 2025.