UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 526

As part of the Finborough Theatre's #FinboroughForFree initiative, the theatre will be releasing a new play every month for as long as we can during their closure to watch online for free.

The Guardian has reported that playwright Louise Page, best known for her work at the Royal Court and the Royal Shakespeare Company passed from cancer on May 30 at the age of 65.

While the Royal Opera House is closed to the public, the company is bringing its audiences three very special performances streamed live from the Royal Opera House as part of the #OurHouseToYourHouse series.

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre is set to open from Monday 8 a?" Friday 12 June for a very special audience.

Bristol Old Vic today announced the final two titles to be streamed as part of its pilot At Home season, presented in collaboration with the city-wide Bristol Arts Channel.

Nottingham Playhouse's building may be temporarily closed due to the pandemic, but it hasn't stopped the theatre commissioning and producing new work.

Tara Arts, the award-winning multicultural theatre arts organisation, today announces Tara Tales, a new series of online storytime, bringing to life famous Indian fables from The Panchatantra performed by Nitin Ganatra (EastEnders), Medhavi Patel (Kidulthood), and Sita Thomas (Channel 5's Milkshake!

Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF), London's leading festival of outdoor theatre and performing arts, today announces a reimagining of its 25th anniversary festival running from 28 August to 12 September.

Warts and All Theatre has announced their new season of LINK: UP, a series of Q&A's and Masterclasses with industry creatives, including some of the UK's leading playwrights Dennis Kelly, Simon Stephens and John Godber, as well as Stars of The End Of The F***ing World.

The Mountaintop will be performed virtually on Wednesday, 10 June, at 7:30pm.

Declan, a new play written and performed by Alistair Hall, is making its debut online to raise funds for London's The Actors Centre, during its period of closure due to the Covid-19 crisis.

The Belgrade's café has opened for takeaways this week, with a 25% discount for NHS staff.

Following its hugely successful 2019 West End run and national tour, Nigel Slater's Toast returns to the Lawrence Batley Theatre as a brand-new online play for audiences to enjoy from the comfort of their own home.

Children around the world will this week have the opportunity to be a part of an amazing global experiment to create a mass piece of beatbox video art.

Opera Holland Park is aware of the #BlackOutTuesday movement among parts of the music industry that began to gather pace yesterday.

A successful north east theatre group is producing a compilation CD of lockdown musical theatre classics to help support the National Health Service.

Greenwich Theatre has secured £35,000 in emergency funding from Arts Council England to protect and develop the company's work with young and emerging artists and to move the annual Greenwich Children's Theatre Festival online.

Opera Holland Park's 2021 season with resident orchestra City of London Sinfonia will open on 1 June with new productions of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen and Mascagni's L'amico Fritz, and a revival of the company's celebrated 2018 staging of Verdi's La traviata.

Knock2Bag and mr box presents The Moth House a?" a streamed comedy gig on Thursday 4th June featuring some of their favourite acts performing brand new material, ideas and sketches.

Grange Park Opera, Surrey's founder & Chief Executive Officer Wasfi Kani has devised an entirely new season of work available solely online.

London's Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance has launched a range of online summer masterclasses and workshops run by internationally renowned practitioners.

Lithuanian opera singer Edgaras Montvidas recently performed in the street in London to raise money to support NHS workers.

London-based independent Record Label, Management and Publishing Company The Other Songs are dedicating one of their industry songwriting events to celebrate the homegrown talent of The BRIT School on Friday 5th June.

Little Angel has announced the next three shows in its digital season, an original short Scoop's Space, and adaptations of Chris Haughton's Don't Worry, Little Crab and Emma Dodd's Whena??

Today HighTide have announced the twelve new writers making up the Playwright Crisis Support Programme, as part of their Lighthouse Programme, to support artists during the pandemic, as well as setting up their new Playwright's Network.