UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 290

Little Angel Theatre announced shows for their upcoming Autumn / Winter season

Bristol School of Acting, in partnership with The Wardrobe Ensemble, announced a new two year accelerated degree course in Theatre Making.

Paines Plough, in association with Women’s Prize for Playwriting, 45North and Kiln Theatre have announced that Amy Trigg’s critically acclaimed play REASONS YOU SHOULD(N’T) LOVE ME will tour the UK this Autumn from 7 September - 26 November.

On Saturday 20th August 2022, to mark the one-year since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, Good Chance Theatre (creators of The Jungle and The Walk with Amal)  will launch Fly With Me, an immersive, multi-city kite flying festival presented by Afghan artists, actors and sportspeople.

Following the glitz and glamour of their most recent production, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, north east based theatre company DarlingtonOS has set their sights on a dark and damp swamp for their next blockbuster musical – SHREK!

Family Dance Day returns to The Place, London on Sat 23 July 11am-4pm for a fun-filled, jam-packed day of indoor and outdoor performances and workshops for the whole family.

The multi-award-winning cinch presents Latitude returns to the stunning grounds of Henham Park, Suffolk, from 21st July - 24th July 2022.

Updated casting has been announced for Festival 2022 at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Creative Crawley's summer programme Enliven: You're Welcome celebrating Crawley New Town's 75th anniversary finishes with the arrival of Aura, a five-metre tall puppet.

24 full-time dance students from Elmhurst Ballet School, the vocational school in association with Birmingham Royal Ballet have started rehearsals for the opening ceremony to mark the beginning of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games on Thursday 28 July.

The multi award-winning Liverpool Theatre Festival returns this Autumn for its third consecutive year – with organisers announcing the first eight live entertainment shows for 2022.

From Shout to James Bond, from To Sir With Love to The Eurovision Song Contest; Lulu is a bona fide British music legend.

Iris Theatre announced the opening of a brand-new pop-up, garden café and bar to accompany their 2022 Summer programme at the Actors’ Church.

Jonny Labey ('Strictly Ballroom’ in the West End, 'EastEnders') & Hannah Pauley ('The Mystery of DB Cooper', HBO & BBC, 'In Plain Sight' Amazon Prime & ITV) will star in Neil Simon's ‘Barefoot in the Park’, directed by Robin Herford, at the Mill At Sonning Theatre.

Squirrels get ready! Everyone’s big lovable dog Hey Duggee is touring for the first time EVER and here’s your chance to see him live on stage at Darlington Hippodrome!

Originally scheduled for a 2020 run, The Merchant of Venice 1936 has successfully weathered the pandemic!  It is to premiere in Spring 2023, in a partnership between Watford Palace Theatre and Trafalgar Entertainment, supported by the Royal Shakespeare Company with a research and development period

Epstein Theatre has announced family pantomime Goldilocks And The Three Bears, set to run at Christmastime this year.

An exhibition marking 50 years of Fiddler's Ferry and its importance to the area's industrial heritage will be opening at Warrington Museum and Art Gallery in July.

Following a highly successful first edition over Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend earlier this month, Creamfields South firmly cemented itself as a solid newcomer on the festival calendar, with the second edition of the event announced before the dust had even settled on the first.

Award-winning singer and international icon Lulu is to share her behind-the-scenes stories of rising to the top of the music industry and working with some of the biggest names in pop.

China Plate and Birmingham Hippodrome have announced both the principal cast and the West Midlands based associate creative team for their new concert musical To The Streets!, an uplifting new musical by Roy Williams and Tim Sutton, based on an original idea by Christopher Haydon, inspired by the 19

The producers of the world premiere production of FISHERMAN'S FRIENDS: THE MUSICAL have announced principal cast members and additional tour venues for the UK & Ireland Tour, setting sail from 1 September 2022 at Theatre Royal Plymouth.

The Achates Philanthropy Prize, the only annual prize that celebrates first-time supporters of culture in the UK, returns for its sixth edition in 2022 with a host of new judges.

After partnering for the huge sell-out success of Printworks London's launch, London's leading electronic promoters and the teams behind Printworks and Tobacco Docks, Broadwick Live & LWE reunite to launch the inaugural music programme at London's newest venue, The Beams.

Korea's TOB Group presents a new show exploring the famous 'bystander effect', the social psychology theory that people are less likely to help someone in need if there are other people present.