UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 179

Tom Bailey - theatre maker and creative director of Herald Angel award-winning theatre company Mechanimal - will be touring on foot and ferry across Scotland, Norway and Denmark to perform new theatre show Crap At Animals at Passage Festival near Copenhagen.

Watford Palace Theatre has announced its new vision, ambition, and season of work for Watford's 115-year-old venue.

Based on several ghost stories by Charles Dickens, The Haunting by Hugh Janes combines the essential hallmarks of a great Victorian ghost story with a terrifying mystery and will be staged in-the-round at the New Vic.

Bing's Birthday will tour to theatres across the UK throughout 2025.

Bristol Old Vic has announced its Christmas programme for 2024 – two new productions inspired by classic fairy tales.

Wandsworth Arts Fringe is celebrating its 15th birthday!  From 7th – 23rd June 2024, leap into a world of brand-new theatre, experimental dance and music, works-in-progress from the next big names in comedy, and nights of cabaret.

Theatres Trust, the national public advisory and advocacy body for theatres has announced that its Director Jon Morgan will step down at the end of December 2024.

Following sold-out performances in 2021, KVN Dance Company will make a return with Kevan Allen’s magical reimagined version of the classical ballet Coppelia at Darlington Hippodrome on Sunday 23 June as part of a 16 date UK tour.

Hersh Dagmarr, the immortal wandering ghost of a European yesteryear, will deconstruct the songs of The Pet Shop Boys and transport them to the Weimar Berlin era in his new show Indefinite Leave To Remain - The Songs of the Pet Shop Boys at London's Crazy Coqs cabaret venue.

The critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe hit Her Green Hell is coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth this May.

Comedian Richard Herring will return to stand-up after six years with his new show Can I Have My Ball Back?, coming to Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre on 23 May.

The cast has been announced for the world premiere of Fabulous Creatures at Arcola Theatre.

Internationally renowned award-winning actor, producer and comedian Chris Tucker has announced a one-off London date on Sunday 2nd June at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall.

Middle-Weight Theatre have shared first look photos of the UK tour of the brand-new original drama What’s Next?.

Two new appointments have been made to the Watermill Theatre's Board of Trustees.

The Royal Exchange Theatre has announced that Selina Cartmell has been appointed as its Creative Director.

The cast has been announced for Jimmy J's genre-bending adaptation of Ovid's 1st century poem coming to The Cockpit from 16th May - 1st June 2024, reclaiming the transgender narratives that underpin so much of Greco-Roman mythology.

INO and The Royal Opera present their third collaboration: a brand-new staging of Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade which opens in the Linbury Theatre on Monday 13 May.

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, The Roald Dahl Story Company and Leeds Playhouse have announced casting for The Enormous Crocodile at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, running from 17 May – 8 June 2024.

Professional dance artists and community groups will leap onto stage at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre in May for York Dance Space's Making Waves, showcasing new dance work accompanied by original music composed by North Yorkshire composer Wilfred Kimber.

The Royal Shakespeare Company will celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday (23 April) in Skegness staging Romeo and Juliet in local schools and The Embassy Theatre.

From Monday 13th May - Saturday 25th May, London Theatre Education Charity, Go Live Theatre Projects, is offering 500 young theatregoers aged 15-24 the chance to see a top West End show for just £10, from some of the best seats in the house! 

Maxine Peake, Sarah Frankcom and Imogen Knight - co-founders of new production company MAAT (Music, Art, Activism and Theatre) will present the world premiere of a chilling new retelling of John Bowen's cult TV play Robin Redbreast, which is often cited as the precursor to The Wicker Man.

Globally celebrated theatre company, Forced Entertainment, has confirmed 2024 UK dates as part of their European tour marking 40 years of creating work.

Following on from sold out shows throughout the world for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Live In Concert last year, a debut UK tour has been announced for the second chapter of the Oscar-winning Spider-Verse saga: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.