UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 286

In just under a week's time Chickenshed will be launching their Children's Festival of Fun - a kind of Glastonbury for children, but without the mud!

As Croydon looks forward to its year as London Borough of Culture in 2023-24, London Mozart Players (LMP) reveal their concerts in the 22/23 season at Fairfield Halls, where the orchestra is Resident.

Dance Umbrella, London's annual international contemporary dance festival returns this October, featuring fun for all the family with the UK premiere of de Stilte's Do-re-mi-ka-do, touring across the city from 15 - 23 October.

Original Theatre have announced the full cast of their brand new production of Rachel Wagstaff's acclaimed adaptation of Agatha Christie's THE MIRROR CRACK'D.

A new production of Noël Coward's Brief Encounter, adapted for the stage by Emma Rice, has opened at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre – a co-production with Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, and Octagon Theatre, Bolton.

Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester is to stage the UK theatrical premiere of the Broadway musical version of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella.

A selection of rehearsal images has become available from two of Mischief’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 shows Charlie Russell Aims To Please (Written and performed by Charlie Russell) and Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (By Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, performe

Re:Verse Theatre presents The Hamlet Voyage, a new play by Rex Obano recently long-listed for the Alfred Fagon award (one of the most prestigious awards championing the work of Black British playwrights).

Green-fingered youngsters have helped kick-start work on a new rooftop garden in the heart of Warrington.

The lead cast members and creative teams have been announced for the Sheffiled Theatres' production of William Shakespeare’s well-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing, co-produced with Ramps on the Moon, which will open at the Crucible this September before embarking on a UK Tour.

Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse announces its new programme of work, the first under Creative Director Suba Das.

Voloz Collective’s The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much has been named as a winner of the Carol Tambor Incentive Award 2022.

Storyhouse has unveiled WayWord, an exciting and inspiring programme of events and activities for children this October half term.

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch has announced the full programme for its extraordinary fortnight of new and unusual theatre.

The Happy Days International Beckett Festival will be celebrating its 10th anniversary as it returns to Enniskillen this summer after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic.

Six years after it closed in the West End, the first new staging of Billy Elliot The Musical has opened at the Leicester Curve, made possible by liaison with the original filmmakers.

Portsmouth Road Productions announced their line-up for their series of workshops by some of the most exciting talent in British theatre.

A groundbreaking new staging of Monteverdi’s opera Orpheus is set to open at Opera North in Leeds this October, before touring northern theatres alongside Verdi’s La traviata, and concerts of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice.

Swindon based dance company, Neon Dance, have collaborated with Bristol Robotics Lab to create robots that will interact with audiences this Autumn.

Following three sold-out West End runs and a smash hit UK tour, Death Drop is back! The drag murder mystery sensation is returning with a brand-new show: Death Drop: Back In The Habit.

The first queer production of critically-acclaimed Sea Wall will premiere at the Turner Contemporary in collaboration with Margate Pride this August.

A summer refurbishment programme is underway at the New Theatre Cardiff that will see significant improvements to the Front of House areas and Bars, additional Toilets, and an enhanced customer service experience.

Bullring & Grand Central, ACE Dance and Music, and Birmingham Hippodrome presents IT'S CARNIVAL, a colourful large-scale dance and music extravaganza featuring over 400 performers, taking place in and around the various sites of the Birmingham Bullring from 1- 7pm on Saturday 6 August,

Talawa, the UK’s outstanding Black theatre company, is heading on tour with their outdoor production The Tide.

Work is underway on a major multi-million pound development of an iconic Coventry cultural venue.