UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 22

Final UK tour dates have been announced for the critically acclaimed nostalgic musical celebration, Looking For Me Friend: The Music of Victoria Wood.

Theatre503 has announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of Donbas, the award-winning debut play by Olga Braga, directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike.

The first-ever UK and Ireland tour of the West End musical TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL is coming to Milton Keynes Theatre from Tue 27 Jan - Sat 7 Feb 2026.

The Mill at Sonning has announced the rest of its in-house productions for the whole of 2026, following the previously announced farce Cash On Delivery by Michael Cooney, running 5 February - 4 April.

Special screenings of the critically acclaimed NT Live: The Fifth Step with Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) will take place across the UK and Ireland.

Coming to the Phoenix Arts Club this January, New York-based pop/rock artist Áyal will bring their acclaimed solo show, QUEER CHAOS, to London for its UK premiere.

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Brooklyn Rep will present Death Karaoke, three twisted short plays from London cabaret star Charlie Wood at The Divine.

OUR LITTLE HOUR - the musical based on the life of the late, great Walter Tull that has been commissioned by Show Racism the Red Card - will be touring England throughout February and March this year.

Following a record-breaking run in the West End in 2023, James Graham's Olivier Award-winning play Dear England is now on tour, visiting 16 venues across England.

The cast has been announced for CASH ON DELIVERY, a side-splitting farce of mistaken identity and mayhem by Michael Cooney, directed bv Ron Aldridge, at the Mill at Sonning.

Devised and performed by George Mills and Nigel Munson, The Deadcoats is directed by Barnaby Griffin and produced by 6FootStories; The performance is at Club Silly at 8 p.

Theatrical vagabonds 6FootStories bring a double bill of anarchic interactive comedy to Brixton for two nights this January, including PIE HARD on Saturday, January 10 at 8 p.

Following the overwhelming success of their debut UK tours in 2024 & 2025 - including a sold-out West End show at the Adelphi Theatre - The Van Morrison Alumni Band will return in January 2026 with a brand-new run of London shows.

Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most politically charged play, An Ideal Husband, will receive a bold contemporary reimagining from acclaimed director Ramin Gray (RSC, Royal Court, Young Vic), former Artistic Director of Actor's Touring Company who staged 15 world premieres at the Royal Court Theatre.

Kiln Theatre has announced that Bobbie Little will now play Edmund/Covell in the world premiere of new musical Coven, with music and lyrics by Rebecca Brewer and Grammy Award winning Daisy Chute, and book by Rebecca Brewer.

Ballet Nights has announced its tenth London programme with the specially titled DECADANCE at Cadogan Hall on Wednesday February 4th 2026.

King's Head Theatre has added an extra performance of the Adults Only Version of Jack and The Beanstalk on 2 January 2026 due to demand after the original run sold-out.

Explore rehearsal photos from the SINGLE WHITE FEMALE UK tour featuring Kym Marsh.

Get a first look at Campus West Welwyn Garden City's Cinderella pantomime, running until January 4, with new production photos of the cast in the show.

Heirs of Banquo Productions will present KITTEL: Doktor Faustus of the Third Reich, the true story of Professor Gerhard Kittel, the man of God who sold his soul to Hitler.

Following a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, multi-award-winning, pitch-perfect impressionist Jess Robinson will kick off UK tour of her comedy-cabaret show: Elton Reimagined.

All new production photos have been released from the fifth anniversary edition of TuckShop's all-drag pantomimes: SNOW WHITE which is running at the Emerald Theatre in the West End for a strictly limited season until Sunday 4 January 2026.

The world premiere of Spanish Oranges, the debut play by Alba Arikha, Samuel Beckett’s Goddaughter, with direction from Myriam Cyr, will take place at The Playground Theatre in West London next year.

Bradford marks the end of its year as UK City of Culture this weekend with a spectacular closing event which will feature hundreds of local people.