UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 532

Following the huge success of their PARTY AT HOME event earlier this month, organisers of the annual HALE BARNS CARNIVAL have announced another live streaming festival taking place weekend from Friday 1st a?" Sunday 3rd May.

The British Museum today launches a major revamp of its online collection database, allowing over 4 million objects to be seen by people anywhere in the world.

Eighteen performers from more than eight different countries came together to record new song WAIT, a creative response to the global pandemic that was written as a celebration of connection and community.

Tickets for the Belgrade Theatre's Autumn Season go on general release today with a whole range of exciting productions to look forward to when the lockdown is lifted.

David Walliams's The Midnight Gang and the Chichester Festival Youth Theatre production of Beauty and the Beast (adapted by Anna Ledwich, music and lyrics by Richard Taylor) will be the next productions to be streamed online from Chichester Festival Theatre.

Papatango Theatre Company today announced the ten winning monologues from their Isolated But Open - Voices From Across The Shutdown initiative.

Bridgwater Mercury has reported that Celebrate Voice festival in Salisbury has moved its content online due to the health crisis.

Friends the Musical Parody will embark on a UK tour, planning to kick off in September 2020.

Cardiff based theatre company, Hijinx, launches its first online festival, Hijinx Online/ Ar-lein [24 April - 22 May] - a free festival of theatre and film.

Today Dance Umbrella, London's annual celebration of contemporary dance and performance, announces the cancellation of the October 2020 festival.

Today management at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre have announced a further closure period until Sunday 31 May, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

SHOOK was due to take place on 26th April at Above The Arts Theatre in Leicester Square, however like all other events planned during this period, it has been postponed.

Theatre Royal Plymouth has launched an emergency appeal after being forced to close due to the current health crisis.

Darlington Hippodrome is running regular online dance and drama classes available to young people and adults in a move to keep people active in body, mind and spirit during this period of social distancing.

With its doors and box office closed, The Lowry took to social media to raise money for a new fund created to support artists and vulnerable young people through the coronavirus crisis.

The cancellation of this year's Eurovision Song Contest left a continentally huge cultural gap but comedian and Eurovizh fan Tom Taylor has big plans to fill that gap with the very first Isolation Song Contest.

Ground-breaking new musical theatre event SIGNAL ONLINE is being live-streamed around the world once again on Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 7.

Norfolk & Norwich Festival have today announced a new free, hyper-local project running from 8 a?' 24 May, the 17 days across which the Festival would have taken place this year.

Generous donors have delighted and reassured Guildford Fringe Festival organisers by helping them to reach the half-way milestone in their current Crowdfunder campaign.

Rob Watt's striking inaugural season as interim Artistic Director of Theatre Centre launches with a digital writing course led by exceptional professional writers to champion the next generation of voices.

The Corn Exchange Newbury, in partnership with Greenham Trust and Berkshire Maestros, share the West Berkshire Virtual Community Choir recording of I'd like to Teach the World to Sing in celebration and recognition of the community's frontline staff.

Bryony Kimmings and Brian Lobel have launched #GigAid, an emergency financial lifeline for creative artists whose projects were cancelled (in March, April and May as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic) and for whom gigs are their main source of income.

National Youth Music Theatre has shared their full performance of The Battle of Boat! The Battle of Boat is a courageous tale of a group of children trying to find their place in a world at war, published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide.

English National Ballet has launched their series Wednesday Watch Parties with the 2016 production of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's critically acclaimed Broken Wings, featuring Tamara Rojo in the role of Frida Kahlo alongside legendary ballet star Irek Mukhamedov as Diego Rivera.

The Strad has reported that the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra will make 5,000 free tickets available to NHS workers, once concerts resume following the coronavirus pandemic.