UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 514

Little Angel Theatre have announced the next two productions in their digital Puppetry Sofa Series: Flyboy and the Robot by Matthew Robins, and an adaptation of Ross Collinsa??s Therea??s A Bear On My Chair by Toby Olié.

Little Angel Theatre will be running a competition over the summer holidays for children to come up with an ending to writer and puppeteer Samantha Sutherlanda??s story, The Adventures of Oop and Imm and have it made into an online puppetry show.

Reading Fringe Festival has committed to retaining a digital dimension going forward, after its first-ever online festival reached 10,000 households - with most events available to stream for another month.

Nine leading UK poets have teamed up with Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre to present three short films showcasing their work.

The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury has announced today that its pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk will be postponed until 2021.

Throughout August 2020, Plymouth Fringe Festival will be presenting a series of live-streamed performances showcasing some of the far South West's most exciting theatre-makers, comedians, poets, dancers and live performance artists.

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Acomprehensive free resource for producers, freelancers and theatre companies to aid the recovery of the performing arts, Theatre Search will be published on Monday 3rd August 2020.

Two-time OnComm award-winning, The Show Must Go Online, the global digital theatre movement producing live performances of the chronology of Shakespeare's plays weekly, today announce the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed performed reading of William Shakespeare's As You Like It.

ArtsEd has announced new appointments to its staff.

While the theatre remains closed, Northern Stage is taking the show on the road this summer with a pop up music programme for residents on the Byker estate in Newcastle.

An award-winning team are beginning readings and workshops of a brand new British musical next week.

Hundred Acre Productions will present 'Showcase' a series of online concerts with the music of Dan & Laura Curtis.

The Women's Prize for Playwriting has announced their longlist of writers.

Following the government announcement today that the opening of live performance venues in the UK will be delayed due to the increase in COVID-19 cases, Ken Wright, Managing Director of  Phoenix Arts Club has released a statement:

Crazy Coqs, Sohoa??s unique live entertainment venue within the Brasserie Zédel complex, announces a new limited August programme and a full September programme, offering both live shows and live-streamed shows.

This August Shobana Jeyasingh Dance presents two different versions of the intense and moving Contagion, co-commissioned by 14 a?" 18 NOW to commemorate the centenary of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

Throughout the summer, the Royal Court Theatre's new Bar & Café is popping up in the middle of Sloane Square.

 Across the first four Saturdays in October 2020, the unmissable Camden Oktoberfest returns once again to prove itself the most complete, the most considered and the coolest celebration of the famous Bavarian beer festival.

Creamfields continues to tease fans as they've just unleashed more names for their 2021 edition.

Yellow Earth Theatre today announces that Rogelio Braga, Lao Lee, Nemo Martin and Marie Yan have been awarded £2000 seed commissions to develop new plays as part of the Professional Writers Programme 2020-22.

Cambridge Junction today announces the experimental digital production Recovering Misogynist written and read by Rachel Mariner will be available to watch from 12 August at 7pm.

On Sunday, 2 August at 7pm, West End actor, Helen Anker will be giving a Mamma Mia Masterclass with a live Question and Answer session after the workshop.

Award-winning stage and screen actress Maureen Lipman (Coronation Street, ITV; Celebrity Gogglebox, Channel 4; The Pianist) will star in an online revival of Martin Shermana??s Rose this September.

Park Bench Theatre is bringing live theatre back to York with an outdoor season of monologues for all ages in the city's Rowntree Park from 12 August to 5 September.