UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 281

Theatres Trust, the national advisory body for theatres, has announced a vital new programme – Resilient Theatres: Resilient Communities – that aims to help theatres in need across the UK.

Leah Lamarr, a Los Angeles comedian who rose to prominence in 2020 after joining the then-private social audio app, Clubhouse - returns with her highly anticipated tour performing her new live show NFTs (Nice F*cking Titties) during Edinburgh Fringe Festival that runs from Wednesday, August 3 to Sun

Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced upcoming performances Coppélia and Autumn Triple Bill Into the Music.

WBOS have announced full casting for their production of SHREK THE MUSICAL at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Tue 4 – Sat 8 October.

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich have been unveiled as the shortlisted venues for this year’s UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre Award at the UK Theatre Awards, which returns on Sunday 23 October for the first time since 2019.

Partners British Council, Edinburgh International Festival, Scottish Parliament and Scottish and UK Governments are set to welcome artists, Culture Ministers, parliamentarians and global influencers from across the world to the sixth Edinburgh International Culture Summit (Friday 26-Sunday 28 August

Sheffield Theatres have announced that the departure of their Executive Dan Bates, as he takes up the position as Executive Director of @bradford2025

Cahoots Theatre Company presents the 2022/23 national tour of Looking For Me Friend: The Music of Victoria Wood, a nostalgic hour of entertainment celebrating the music of the late comedy genius and national treasure.

Nottingham-based theatre company Chronic Insanity are to launch a new, intimate multi-discipline arts venue in the system of caves below the city.

Fringe First award-winner Joe Sellman-Leava (Labels; Monster) is heading on tour with his hit Edinburgh Fringe show Fanboy.

All new photos have been released from rehearsals for the UK Tour of THE MIRROR CRACK'D which begins performances at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne on 8 September 2022.

The Kings Theatre is establishing a new arts academy that will have classes and opportunities for all ages and is introducing a scholarship programme that will fund £25,000 worth of places in a year.

Next month, the Belgrade Theatre's B2 auditorium will play host to the brand new queer rom-com, Happy Meal, from Weds 21 – Sat 24 Sept.

Superstars of the ballet world are joining the United Ukrainian Ballet’s production of Giselle by Alexei Ratmansky at the London Coliseum this September.

The most divisive issues of our generation are tackled head on in Ryan Craig's timely new play, directed by Terry Johnson.

Theatre Royal Bath Productions present Edward Albee's masterpiece Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  starring Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) and directed by Lindsay Posner, which will play Theatre Royal Bath from 13 January to 11 February 2023.

A fiercely honest play about racial identity by breakthrough Ghanaian-English writer Nana-Kofi Kufuor comes to Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre next month after a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival.

Fierce, the Birmingham biennial festival of international performance, has announced the programme for 2022 - it marks the biggest programme ever for Fierce, celebrating the Festival's 25th anniversary.

Having received its world premiere at the London Coliseum in January 2022, Raymonda by English National Ballet's Artistic Director Tamara Rojo CBE, after Marius Petipa, will be performed at the Bristol Hippodrome (23 – 26 November 2022) and Southampton's Mayflower Theatre (30 November – 03 Decem

The British Museum will exhibit eight ancient glass vessels which were damaged in the 2020 Beirut port explosion and newly conserved by experts.

Photos have been released of rehearsals for Sheffield Theatres' production of William Shakespeare’s well-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing, co-produced with Ramps on the Moon.

The full cast has been announced for the 40th Anniversary tour of Michael Frayn’s multi award-winning farce, Noises Off, which will visit Theatre Royal Brighton from Tuesday 18 to Saturday 22 October 2022.

Direct from a week-long run in London's West End at the Vaudeville Theatre and performing to sold out audiences in more than 50 countries worldwide, The Simon & Garfunkel Story is back on tour.

Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatres today announced the full cast for their autumn production, REVEALED.

This autumn, the Belgrade Theatre is delighted to be co-producing Quiet Rebels, a brand new drama based on true stories of white women who crossed the colour line and married men of the Windrush generation.