UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 248

The cast has been announced for Hull-based company Middle Child’s UK tour of Modest, starting at Hull Truck Theatre and heading across the UK, landing at Kiln Theatre, London in the summer.

Polka Theatre’s Spring 2023 season continues with LET’S BUILD!, the premiere of a new interactive show for 2 – 5-year-olds, in the Adventure Theatre: the versatile studio space in the recently revamped Polka building in Wimbledon.

The Studio Orchestra return to Cheltenham for a one night only concert celebrating the legendary film scores of Hans Zimmer.

Shakespeare North Playhouse has announced its first cohort of Associate Artists that will contribute and shape the theatre’s vision and artistic programming.

Musical Theatre Network, Mercury Musical Developments and Oxford Playhouse has announced details of the 29 musicals that will be showcased in BEAM2023.

Details have been announced for the Autumn/Winter 2023 season at Belgrade Coventry.

On Saturday 1 April Dreamland Margate threw open its doors for the 2023 season.

The Chosen Haram was the show everyone was talking about at the 2022 festival, receiving awards, five-star reviews and selling out every night.

All new rehearsal photos have been released for WUTHERING HEIGHTS, the brand-new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, opening at Royal & Derngate, Northampton from 24 April - 6 May, with a national press night on Friday 28 April ahead of a UK tour, playing Oxford, London, Coventry and

Final casting has been announced for the upcoming UK tour of hilarious comedy romp The Birds and the Bees, opening 10 May.

Following smash hit, critically acclaimed runs around Australia, The Hairy Godmothers are bringing their flagship show Dizney in Drag: Once Upon a Parody to the UK for the very first time.

THE UPSETTERS have announced their first full-length production, DISMISSED: the debut play by Daniel Rusteau, directed by Nikhil Vyas, coming to Soho Theatre from Tuesday 16 May - Saturday 3 June.

The full cast and creative team have been announced for THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER – the world premiere stage adaptation of Kate Summerscale's vivid and gripping best-selling non-fiction thriller - that will run at The Watermill Theatre from Friday 5 May until Saturday 10 June.

The Garden Theatre Festival is back in Bath for its third triumphant year.

HighTide has announced the first season of work programmed by new Artistic Director Clare Slater, as she sets out a refreshed Artistic Mission for the company.

Lazarus Theatre Company return to Southwark Playhouse this Autumn with a production that promises not to be for the faint-hearted.

Opera North's season for Spring 2023 includes two new productions exploring loss, memory and renewal: Bizet's The Pearl Fishers and a contemporary dance staging of Mozart's Requiem paired with After Tears, a new commission by South African composer Neo Muyanga.

Producers Fuel, Northern Stage, Imaginate and National Theatre of Scotland have announced the cast for this timely and important new production from award winning Scottish writer Hannah Lavery (Lament for Sheku Bayoh, The Drift, Eavesdropping).

Would you trade five years of your life for the perfect body? A brand-new play coming to Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre next month asks audiences this question and tells the story of one woman who is prepared to do just that.

Newly formed production company, Joy Productions, led by producer Julie Clare and co-producer Chuchu Nwagu have entered into a five-year partnership with the newly refurbished Grade II listed Broadway in Catford to programme their annual pantomime for the coming five years.

National Theatre of Scotland and Manchester International Festival (MIF) in association with Claire Cunningham Projects and Kunstenfestivaldesarts have announced the return of pioneering artist Claire Cunningham’s award-winning contemporary dance performance Thank You Very Much, which pulls back

Birmingham City Council has unveiled its plans for Birmingham Festival 23 to mark the one year anniversary of the Commonwealth Games, celebrating the city's creativity, as a sign of its ongoing commitment to funding culture.

Mercury Theatre, led by Executive Director Steve Mannix, Executive Producer Tracey Childs and Creative Director Ryan McBryde, has announced four new associate companies who will partner with the venue for a period of three years.

Wales Millennium Centre and Frân Wen are joining forces to produce a brand-new Welsh-language dramatic musical.

In a time of social division, Unfolding Theatre's A Street Like This is a music-filled theatre production that reminds us we've got more in common than divides us.