UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 162

Bafta-winning comedian Iain Stirling (Taskmaster, Buffering, Failing Upwards) has announced a Relevant tour extension for Spring 2025, plus a debut USA gig at the Brooklyn Bell House on 22nd September 2024.

DORIAN: THE MUSICAL has revealed its cast, featuring rising stars and seasoned performers.

Grandma's Shop, a touching new play, debuts at the Edinburgh Festival, exploring themes of family, memory, and the passage of time.

Kakilang will present semi-autobiographical gig theatre about race and identity from Daniel York Loh comes to Soho Theatre, The Dao of Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience Wednesday 19th June – Saturday 13th July 2024  See photos from inside rehearsal.

Rehearsal photos have been released, prior to celebrated illusionist Ali Cook launching a new magic show at Royal and Derngate, Northampton.

John Lloyd Young, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning original star of Jersey Boys on Broadway and the Clint Eastwood-directed Warner Bros film, will bring a thrilling set of Broadway and West End showstoppers to the Crazy Coqs, July 2-4.

The worlds of Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle combine brilliantly in ‘A Sherlock Carol', which sees Sherlock Holmes investigating the mysterious death of Ebenezer Scrooge.

Award-winning theatre company Squint has announced the recipient of The Squint Playwriting Award.

A new season of concerts by Royal Northern Sinfonia, a brilliant line-up of visiting artists, orchestras and ensembles, and a large-scale opportunity for singers and musicians from across the North East are set to fill The Glasshouse International Centre for Music with fantastically talented musicia

The cast has been announced for the UK premiere of Play On!, the jazz-fuelled, Twelfth Night-inspired musical that will tour the UK from September 2024 – February 2025, including a winter run at Lyric Hammersmith.

The UK Pantomime Association has announced that Anita Harris, who is celebrating 65 years in entertainment, can no longer perform at The Pantomime Awards 2024 in association with Stagecoach tonight, 18 June, due to an accident at the weekend in which she fractured her pelvis.

A new production which takes the lid off the familiar story of the world’s most famous vampire opens at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre next month.

Acclaimed actor from stage and screen Ray Fearon has been named as the incoming President of Rose Bruford College.

The UK’s foremost opera training organisation, the National Opera Studio (NOS), has announced the new cohort of singers and repetiteurs for its flagship Young Artists Programme for the 2024/25 season.

JILTED, a new original musical, will have its premiere concert featuring an engaging storyline and captivating music.

Jacob Stuckelman of Watermark Productions has released photos from inside rehearsal for the UK première of I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire by Samantha Hurley.

HOMESTEAD by Steven Dykes will return to Brighton Open Air Theatre for two additional performances in August.

The multi-award-winning Revel Puck Circus are coming to Gosport with their first new major production in three years.

All new photos have been released from Some Demon at the Arcola Theatre which opens tonight.

To coincide with their season announcement, today Exeter Northcott announces the World Premiere of The Commotion Time, the first play by South West based and highly sought after RSC and Globe dramaturg, Sarah Dickenson.

Created by playwright Carmen Nasr and a company of ten women seeking sanctuary in London, I Am Lysistrata reimagines the 2500-year-old comedy by Aristophanes about women coming together to end a war.

Sedos will present You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown at the Bridewell Theatre from 9-13 July 2024.

Swindon is getting ready to welcome a brand new Youth Arts festival this Summer.

Eldritch Investigations: A Psychogeographies Project by Rorschach Theatre has been extended through September 2024.

Belgrade Theatre Coventry has announced details of See It First – a programme of new plays, workshops involving some of the UK's leading directors and writers, and conversations between artists and audiences, all running at the theatre from 17 – 27 July.