UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 500

New opera film The Soldier's Return gives veterans a voice to premiere on Remembrance Sunday.

The Sarah Thorne Theatre in Broadstairs has cancelled plans for this year's panto.

The Royal Opera House will sell a David Hockney portrait that could be worth up to £18m.

Chichester Festival Theatrea??s reopening production of Sarah Kanea??s Crave, staged to a live, socially distanced audience in the Festival Theatre and simultaneously live-streamed to global digital audiences, begins rehearsal next week.

Many independent, alternative and fringe theatre venues and companies responded to the challenges of the Covid pandemic by taking their shows online.

Today, Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party and local MP for Holborn & St Pancras, visited charity Clean Break as the theatre company reopened its building to its Members (women who have experience or are on the fringes of the criminal justice system).

Starting this month, West End stars and some of the UK's most talented stage and screen artists will perform to care home residents through Connect2you, a campaign which provides COVID safe bespoke live performances ensuring that the 'Show Will Go On' for members of the community across the UK who h

Thanks to funding from Creative Scotlanda??s Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund, the Citizens Theatre will present two new films of popular past productions, bringing theatre to homes across Glasgow and Scotland while audiences cannot attend live performances.

The Industry Minds Awards 2020 will be held on Monday 30th November 2020 at The Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester.

Roustabout Theatre present The Great Big Story Mix Up, a highly interactive, improvised family show which puts children's imaginations at the heart of the action in a completely original way.

Following six months of closure, Theatre Peckham, South London's flagship cultural venue and pioneering learning theatre, celebrates its reopening with a multi-artform programme of socially distanced, in-person and participatory digital events, taking place throughout October and into November.

Over 7K viewers tuned into last week's premiere of smash hit series In the Wings with host Robert J.

Small Truth Theatre has announced that DIGITAL CARAVAN THEATRE 2 will be launched on Saturday 17th October 2020, their second collection of 15-minute audio plays - all available to download for free and BSL interpreted.

Nurse Nellie Saves Panto, running between Friday 11 December to Sunday 3 January, will be performed to a socially distanced audience and will star much-loved panto legend Ben Roddy who has played the Dame in The Marlowe's pantomimes for the last ten years.

A protest March will take place in Liverpool city centre this weekend to raise awareness of the devastating impact lockdown has had on the Arts Industry across the region.

Defibrillator, in association with The Actors Centre, today announces a digital extension for the world première of Gemma Lawrence's sell-out, critically acclaimed new play Sunnymead Court a?" the playwright Gemma Lawrence plays Marie, and Remmie Milner plays Stella in this uplifting and heart-warm

Charlotte Bennett and Katie Posner, Joint Artistic Directors of Paines Plough, today announce the company's plans for Autumn 2020.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has today announced that Juliet Gilkes Romero's urgent and provocative new play, The Whip, will receive its online premiere this October as part of Black History Month.

The Kenton Theatre, the UK's fourth-oldest working theatre based in the centre of Henley-on-Thames, has today announced its plans to raise £35,000 through their fundraising campaign Kenton For Keeps.

Birmingham Opera Company today launch their next bold mission; Wagner's RhineGold with an international cast and local volunteer performers led by Artistic Director Graham Vick and newly appointed Music Director Alpesh Chauhan in August 2021.

HighRise Theatre will blend Grime with theatre for a one-night-only livestream of Dominic Garfielda??s (Merryville; The Concrete Jungle Book) acclaimed production Lil.

Battersea Arts Centre is extending an invitation to Make/Love this autumn, today announcing an ambitious season of daring and intimate work.

As part of the national UK touring theatre initiative Signal Fires, leading companies  Out of Joint, Bristol Old Vic Ferment, Rising Artrs Agency and Prime Theatre Company are working with with Bristol based Fen and director and dramaturg Maisie Newman on a digital performance piece which responds

2020 marks the 42nd year of Dance Umbrella and Emma Gladstone's 7th and final year as Artistic Director and Chief Executive for the organisation before she will step down.

Bristol Old Vic's Engagement work received £25,000 of funding support today from The Clore Duffield Foundation, chaired by Dame Vivien Duffield, who has announced a rescue package of £2,551,371 to 66 cultural organisations across the UK, to support their learning and community work during the p