UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 485

The Bristol Hippodrome, which is part of Ambassador Theatre Group, is pleased to announce that it is to gift tickets to the opening performance of its socially-distanced pantomime to local NHS workers and their families.

KidZania London in collaboration with Louis Rayneau today announce Cinderella as part of Secret Christmas at KidZania London - a programme of festive activities for children over Christmas.

Riverside Studios today announces further programming for its inaugural Christmas season in association with New Frame Productions, including an evening of unplugged performance with West End Acoustic featuring SIX's Maiya Quansah-Breed and Renée Lamb, Wicked's Nicholas McLean, Jesus Christ Superst

Artistic Directors of Cheek by Jowl, Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod today announce the second series of their podcast, Not True, But Useful… hosted by Lucie Dawkins.

Theatre Royal Bath will reopen on 3 December with a revised performance schedule for Oleanna and Copenhagen, the final two plays in the theatre’s Welcome Back Season.

Nominations are now open for the 2021 Hearts for the Arts Awards, celebrating local authority and cultural trust arts champions and creative community projects.

If you're looking for something to keep the kids busy during lockdown or the holidays or some fun and interactive home-schooling opportunities look no further.

All the Little Things has been released on Soundcloud to help raise awareness to save Maidstone's only theatre.

Frantic Assembly has launched a new and urgent fundraising campaign today.

Theatre503 announced US playwright and activist Pravin Wilkins as the winner of the 2020 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award.

The Traverse Theatre announces a limited run of award winning show MUSTARD by Eva O'Connor, a Fishamble: The New Play Company production, online from 1st -14th December.

Loneliness among the elderly is a crisis that is only becoming more urgent as Christmas approaches.

Nottingham Playhouse has announced that its production of Jack and the Beanstalk will go ahead this year and has revealed the members of its two-hander cast.

The new musical Worlds Apart, with book by Matthew Cavendish and music/lyrics by Paul Schofield, has released its second song.

A celebration of one of the nation's favourite classical music pieces is set to take place this December as Bristol Beacon and Bristol Ensemble mark the centenary of the first performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending with a free, live-broadcast online concert.

This Christmas, Charles Court Opera are to deliver a boutique panto like no other by moving online and bringing their enduring annual mix of toe-tapping music, side-splitting gags and festive frivolity to the comfort of the nation's living rooms for the very first time!

New platform, Out of Work Work, launches today, offering a comprehensive directory of products and services created and sold by arts workers.

Dalia Stasevska has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society's 2020 Conductor Award, announced last night in a digital presentation on the RPS Awards' website.

Hope Mill Theatre is calling for any final submissions for its new playwriting prize that launched earlier this year, which includes the opportunity of mentorship with writer Jonathan Harvey for the chosen finalists.

This Christmas, Tron Theatre Company will bring back the much loved, Ali the Magic Elf - as a live show captured on film for viewing at home.

Writers' platform Untitled, has today launched the second full issue of their global online journal: Untitled: Voices, which features work from 53 emerging underrepresented writers from around the world.

Daniel Brine Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Norfolk & Norwich Festival has confirmed that the 2021 Festival will take place between 14 – 30 May.

This festive season, audiences are being asked to Save A Seat as part of a new fundraising campaign by Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Birmingham Royal Ballet.

The cast album of the hugely acclaimed musical Flowers for Mrs Harris, recorded by the Chichester Festival Theatre company, will be released on 3 December.

There's no need to wait until May for culture in Coventry! Proforca Theatre Company return to the Albany Theatre Studio after Lockdown with AAAAA (FiveA), a brand new piece of theatre which will be performed for one night only in Coventry as part of its London premiere in 2021.