UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 513

Top stars support the 2020 Platform Presents Playwright's Prize including Aimee Lou Wood, Dianna Agron, Kyle Soller, Phoebe Fox, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Aki Omoshaybi and George MacKay, who have self-filmed video excerpts from the finalist plays in isolation during Lockdown

The West Midlands Culture Response Unit (WMCRU) today announce a brand-new series of events for the region, West Midlands Weekenders.

Chickenshed was the first theatre to bring David Walliams The Midnight Gang to the stage back in 2017 - and they will bring it to you again, this time on a screen near you, and in the comfort of your own home!

After tremendous success with 'The Show Must Go On' merchandise, The Theatre Support Fund+ have teamed up with Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and designed a special edition face covering to coincide with the venue reopening on 14th August 2020.

Opera North has postponed its upcoming productions at Nottinghama??s Theatre Royal.

Small Truth Theatre are delighted to announce our DIGITAL CARAVAN THEATRE on Saturday 15th August 2020, with our first collection of audio plays by an extraordinary ensemble of award winning and acclaimed playwrights, Actors, Director and Sound Designer - all available to download for free to our wo

Hundred Acre Productions are proud to present 'Showcase' a series of online concerts featuring the music from the incredible Dan & Laura Curtis.

Northern Stage today announced the appointment of Natalie Ibu as their new Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive.

Natalie Ibu, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of tiata fahodzi, the UK's leading British-African contemporary theatre company, is to step down from her role to take up a new position as Artistic Director and Joint CEO at Northern Stage.

The Kings Theatre in Portsmouth is has announced that singer Sean Smith will star in their 2020 Christmas pantomime, Dick Whittington.

In February 2020, theatre producer Tom Gribby brought together an impressive cast for The Pirate Queen production at the London Coliseum, helping raise more than £10,000 for Leukaemia UK.

The British Museum will reopen to visitors on Thursday 27 August 2020.

The doors to the Courtyard may be closed this summer but the Pleasance Theatre Trust are already thinking ahead to 2021.

The Last Five Years will play at the world famous outdoor Minack Theatre in Cornwall from 15th a?" 19th September.

Opera North in Leeds will undergo an expansion project to create the Howard Opera Centre.

This August will see Damsel Outdoors take place in locations including Portobello Road and Bankside as four compelling new pieces of theatre are staged across London.

Henley Literary Festival is going online this autumn, with over 40 events for adults and children covering fiction, sport, entertainment, politics, history and more delivered right to wherever you are.

Charles Court Opera - a??the masters of G&S in small spacesa?? - are to come out of lockdown with a specially customised outdoor staging of their Offie award-winning production of a??H.

Following its huge success in June and July, IN THE WINGS is set to return later this summer for 6 glorious weeks of free-to-view episodes.

Surrey-based, International Storyteller and writer, Danyah Miller has created four new tales inspired by her own childhood for the Yorkshire Festival of Story running online throughout August.

A huge episode of Music Life this week sees one of the most versatile composers working today.

A free outdoor spectacular celebrating diversity in the arts, The Sunday Art Club will immerse audiences in the joy of live performance this August and September.

Rotten States is an outdoor immersive performance written by Tobias Cornwell and presented by Get Out Of My Space.

Opera Helps began as a site-specific art project in which professional opera singers visited people in the comfort of their own homes to sing to them one to one.

The Watermill's summer season of outdoor performances has been extended, now booking until Sunday 6 September.