UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 133

Jamie Allan is set to perform an extended solo season in the West End, marking him as the third UK magician and illusionist in 40 years to achieve this milestone.

Belgrade Theatre has announced e a series of special public and community engagement events, including Black Men on the Couch, a Q&A for Schools and Colleges, a panel discussion, and the Revealed: Family Stories Photography Exhibition, which celebrates family stories and explores the themes of menta

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International has announced its recent acquisition of the rights to The Great British Bake Off Musical.

The bestselling children's author David Walliams and the award-winning Birmingham Stage Company have teamed up for a brand-new production of the family adventure Awful Auntie from Thu 10 Oct to Sat 12 Oct 2024.

Following a critically acclaimed month-long run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe earlier this year, Huge Davies is set to head out across the UK and Ireland for his debut tour.

Creative Lives, the registered charity that champions community and volunteer-led arts activity, has announced the winners of the 2024 Creative Lives Awards.

The 20th Anniversary production of Alan Bennett’s modern classic The History Boys will play at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre venue from Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 October as part of its national tour.

Packing a punch this winter, The Simple Life & Death is set to make its fantastic world premiere, placing a murderous spin on Paris Hilton’s iconic noughties reality show, The Simple Life.

Show Racism the Red Card - the UK's leading anti-racism educational charity - has commissioned a new musical drama for Black History Month as part of a campaign to redress a grave injustice dating back to events that took place in January 1917 during The First World War.

WOW - Women of the World will head off on tour this month with a brand-new live series, The WOW Show with Jude Kelly.

Marrying all the joys and spectacle of Christmas theatre with a heartfelt social message, Daniel Bye's take on the legend of Robin Hood sees the reluctant hero join with a band of young people who have been cast out of a society where they have no say, and who have taken things into their own hands.

Papatango has announced the shortlisted writers for their 2024 New Writing Prize.

The Rite of Spring / common ground[s] will arrive at Sadler’s Wells Theatre this November following sell-out runs and international acclaim throughout its world tour.

Bros Theatre Company will present SOHO CINDERS, an urban musical fable penned by Stiles & Drewe (Mary Poppins, Honk!, Betty Blue Eyes), at Hampton Hill Theatre 12th – 16th November, 2024.

This autumn, Theatre of Debate is set to take to the road for the first time since the pandemic with the world premiere of Sudha Bhuchar’s A Picture of Health, a play about vaccination, variolation, colonisation, decolonisation, vaccine hesitancy and the compelling role of the women in the Roy

Belgrade Theatre has announced its 2025 Spring Season, featuring the return of SIX to Coventry.

Casting has been announced for The Crumple Zone, running Wednesday 27 November - Saturday 4 January at Stage Door Theatre, The Prince of Wales pub, 150-151 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5TD.

The world premiere of NOW That's What I Call A Musical, a brand-new British musical written by award-winning comedian Pippa Evans and directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, is coming to Milton Keynes this November.

Award winning musical phenomenon Le Gateau Chocolat (ICONS, A Night At the Musicals, Raw Cacao, Duckie) will once again take to the main stage at London's Soho Theatre this festive season, in an all new, showstopping, showtune spectacular - Musicals Mayhem.

At the 2004 Superbowl, Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson's breast and nipple to a huge live TV audience for nine sixteenths of a second.

A major national tour of Moira Buffini's funny play HANDBAGGED will visit Wolverhampton Grand Theatre as part of the Theatre Nation Partnerships (TNP) initiative convened by the National Theatre.

Stratford East has announced the appointment of Lisa Spirling as their new Artistic Director and joint CEO.

Orange Tree Theatre has announced full casting for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - OT's Artistic Director Tom Littler directs.

With fast-paced storytelling, misbehaving props and over thirty characters to play, four actors cause havoc as they attempt to recreate the classic yet scandalous French novel Madame Bovary (1856), a book considered so controversial on its release that the author Gustave Flaubert went to court on ch

Theatres Trust, the national advisory and advocacy body for theatres, has announced the recipients of the new Ruth Eastwood Bursary, launched this year in memory of its much-missed colleague Ruth Eastwood.