UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 291

Birmingham Stage Company has announced David Walliams' Demon Dentist will make its London première at the Bloomsbury Theatre this Christmas – running from 15 December 2022 until 8 January 2023.

A brand new production of Masquerade – a play telling a powerful and emotional tale set in an iconic Liverpool gay club in the 1980s – is coming to the city’s Epstein Theatre this Autumn.

Patrons, Joanne Clifton, Jenna Russell and Layton Williams all have scholarships named after them for the upcoming academic year at Canterbury's JGH Academy of Theatre Arts, and have announced the recipients for students joining them from September 2022.

Sean Foley, the Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep announced two new comedies to start the New Year '23, including the world premiere of Spitting Image Live: Featuring the Liar King, as well as the completion of the Autumn '22 Season.

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre is holding an artiste and practitioner recruitment day on Monday 1 August 2022.

The European Space Agency's Tim Peake became the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station to conduct a spacewalk – and even run a marathon – while orbiting Earth in December 2015.

Hit children's show HEY DUGGEE is to tour the UK for the first time ever in a vibrant and interactive stage show.

The producers of Guildford Fringe Festival, Nick Wyschna and Charlotte Wyschna, are celebrating the opening weekend of this year's Festival, with Gag House Comedy Superstars kicking off the jampacked three-week festival of fun, drama and laughter on 24 June.

Raymond Gubbay Limited has announced that Varna International Ballet and Orchestra will visit the UK for the very first time in their 75-year history with classical performances of THE NUTCRACKER, SWAN LAKE, COPPELIA and GISELLE.

This autumn, the Belgrade Theatre will offer the opportunity for five Midlands-based creatives and companies to develop their work in the Theatre’s B2 auditorium.

Follow in the footsteps of Julian Germain's ground-breaking photography project, GENERATIONS, and tell your own family's story! GRAIN Projects is delighted to announce the Participation Project, a collection of pictures that puts the participants at the heart of the Birmingham 2022 Festival.

From 12 - 14 August, Journeys Festival International will celebrate its tenth anniversary in Leicester's city centre with style.

An extraordinary and unique event is coming to Derby this autumn, bringing together communities, artists and a circus tent in Markeaton Park, celebrating our city, local people and performance.

Graeae, the UK's leading disabled led theatre company, today announces that, on 8 July [at Live Theatre Newcastle, they will be hosting a celebratory event which showcases the artists who have, for the past two years, taken part in their groundbreaking initiative Beyond.

Mercury Theatre today announces the full cast for their summer production of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, reimagined by Olivier award-winning playwright Mike Kenny with music by Ivan Stott.

The Ballad of St John’s Car Park celebrates the positive power of community activism in Medway, from the protested closure of Chatham’s Dockyard in 1984 to the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

Today, Nottingham Playhouse announces the full casting for Adrian Scarborough’s adaptation of Alan Bennett’s comic novella The Clothes They Stood Up In.

Love! Valour! Compassion!, the Tony Award-winning epic returns to London for the first time since its original Off West End run at the Tristan Bates Theatre in 1998.

The first musical from Tony Award winner, Jason Robert Brown, Songs for a New World is an anthology of short stories told through song that takes audiences on a journey that teeters on the edge of that one little moment that can shape the rest of your life.

A series of joyful, radical and accessible queer sober dance parties are set to take place in Birmingham for the first time this summer.

The highly anticipated studio cast recording for the empowering pop musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World has been released on streaming platforms.

Oldham Coliseum Theatre today announces its programme for Autumn and Winter 2022-23.

From the heart of Kent, Gulbenkian Arts Centre present their eclectic 2022/23 season with some of the performing arts industries biggest names including Pussy Riot, The Foreign Office, 1927 and Improbable.

Strictly Come Dancing comes to Wolverhampton Grand Theatre this week in a brand new Strictly show, STRICTLY PRESENTS – KEEEEP DANCING! on Sunday 26 June 2022.

We Should Definitely Have More Dancing is actress Clara Darcy's remarkable, uplifting real-life story.