UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 544

Internationally acclaimed vocalist CHRISTINA BIANCO returns to her old stomping grounds, The Hippodrome Casino [Lolas Underground], for an evening of unforgettable music, comedy and impressions.

The Young Vic and LIFT Festival today announces that two-time Olivier award-winner, Golden Globe winner, and Tony and BAFTA nominated actress Ruth Wilson will star in the UK Premiere of The Second Woman.

A retelling of the original, much-loved fairytale Beauty and the Beast will take centre-stage at Staffordshire's New Vic for Christmas 2020, the theatre-in-the-round announced today.

Shoreditch Town Hall today announces the return of award-winning theatre company The Wardrobe Ensemble, with a new show, The Last of the Pelican Daughters, following a successful run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019.

Chichester Festival Theatre's Olivier Award-nominated production of Singin' in the Rain will embark on a major UK and Ireland tour in 2021, following a strictly limited five-week season at Sadler's Wells this Summer.

Lisa Taddeo will be embarking on a UK tour to celebrate the paperback publication of her #1 Sunday Times bestselling novel Three Women.

CATEGORY ISa??ROMEO&JULIET will transport audiences to 1980s New York City and to the heart of queer ballroom culture a?" recently highlighted to a new generation by FX's hit TV show Pose, and seminal 1991 documentary Paris is Burning.

Journalist and The High Low podcaster, Pandora Sykes will tour the UK this July, to celebrate the publication of brand new book, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? The tour will take in an initial four dates in London, Leeds, Edinburgh and Bristol, beginning on 12th July at the Southbank Centre an

Chichester Festival Theatre's Olivier Award-nominated production of Singin' in the Rain will come to Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday 6 - Saturday 10 April 2021.

The world premiere of the anarchic comedy Another Mother, created by Selina Cadell and written by Justine Mitchell, will open at Park Theatre for a strictly limited season from 10 June - 11 July 2020.

Following two years as a multi venue Urban London festival, The Innervisions Festival returns in 2020 with a new home - 'Magazine London' on the Greenwich Peninsula which is opposite North Greenwich tube.

Award-winning comedian and poet Rob Auton will embark on his biggest tour to date from 1st February to the 16th May 2020.

Poet in Da Corner, inspired by Dizzee Rascal's seminal 2003 album Boy in the Corner, comes to HOME in a brand-new production from London's Royal Court Theatre.

'Howerd's End' directed by Joe Harmston explores the clandestine relationship between comedy legend Frankie Howerd and Dennis Heymer from the 1950s until Frankie's death in 1992.

The Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass Trust (Masterclass) has announced the appointment of Clare Annamalai as their new Programme Director.

Lipstick, a new play by Lily Shahmoon, has its world premiere at Southwark Playhouse.

London's smoothest late night show has arrived at the Boulevard Theatre.

Sofia Asir, Amir El-Masry, Joe Haddad, Philipp Mogilnitskiy, Sirine Saba, Avigail Tlalim and Miltos Yerolemou have been cast in the world premiere of two Palestinians go dogging written by Sami Ibrahim and directed by Omar Elerian.

The Abbey Theatre today, 6 March 2020, announced that Sarah Smith has been appointed to the role of Technical Director of the Abbey Theatre.

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the razor sharp political satire Yes, Minister, the BAFTA Award winning Jonathan Lynn, one of the original writers of the hit series, has penned and will direct a brand-new stage production, I'm Sorry Prime Minister I Can't Quite Remember.

Comedy Award Winners 2018 Stiff & Kitsch return to London's Soho Theatre for a limited run with hit musical comedy show Bricking It, directed by Edinburgh Comedy Award 2019 Newcomer Nominee, Janine Harouni.

This spring, the Belgrade Theatre invites audiences to venture into a remote corner of the Scottish highlands in a spine-chilling new play by Ali Milles, showing from 15-18 April.

Inaugural Ru Paul's Drag Race UK winner and finalist, The Vivienne and Baga Chipz, have been announced as the hosts for Party on the Heath, a brand new one-off pop-tastic celebration in association with Pride London on Thursday 18th June 2020.

Jon Culshaw will star as 'Bill Bryson' in a brand-new stage production of Bryson's award-winning memoir NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND adapted by BAFTA and Olivier Award winning playwright Tim Whitnall.

Pilot Theatre have announced that their award-winning production of Sabrina Mahfouz's adaptation of Malorie Blackman's critically acclaimed young adult novel of first love in a dangerous fictional dystopia a?" Noughts & Crosses will be heading back out on tour in the Autumn.