UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 557

To celebrate Safer Internet Day on 11 February, the ground-breaking immersive experience The Big Data Show announces first public dates.

Adele Cliff, aka Thor God of Punder, has been crowned the 2020 UK Pun Champion.

Late night cult slobberknocker I'm OKayfabe: A Wrestling Comedy is coming to London.

Earlier this year Siobhan wowed audiences as the only female finalist in Britain's Got Talent 2019.

Lydia Brayshaw is a seventeen year old full-time ballet student training at Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham, the vocational school in association with Birmingham Royal Ballet.

The 20th annual WhatsOnStage Awards take place on 1 March at the Prince of Wales Theatre, hosted by Jodie Prenger and Tom Read Wilson, and for the first time this year will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 hosted by Elaine Paige and Ken Bruce.

A touring exhibition featuring works by painter, grai??ti artist and social activist, Banksy is set to open in London.

As ballet superstar Carlos Acosta takes up the reins at Birmingham Royal Ballet, his critically-acclaimed company of young Cuban dancers embarks on a ten-venue nationwide tour.

BroadwayWorld had previously reported that actress Oluwaseyi (Seyi) Omooba was removed from Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome's revival of musical The Color Purple after West End Hamilton actor Aaron Lee Lambert shared a screenshot of her 2014 Facebook post.

Lionel Bart's BLITZ! is running now at the Union Theatre in Southwark.

Following the sell-out premiere at Birmingham Hippodrome and their regional tour back in 2018, Open Theatre Company return to the Patrick Studio to open their 2020 UK tour of The Twisted Tale of Hansel and Gretel from Wednesday 12 a?" Saturday 15 February 2020.

Celebrating its sixth year, Arab Women Artists Now (AWAN) festival, which runs from the 5 -29 March, offers a rich programme of visual art, music, theatre, comedy, spoken word, panel discussions and workshops by contemporary Arab women artists.

Izzy, wizzy, let's get busy, because the nation's favourite TV bear Sooty is heading to town for a special half-term treat!

Award winning Box of Tricks theatre company recently announced plans for a UK Tour of their latest production The Last Quiz Night on Earth an immersive, innovative new play by Alison Carr.

Following its phenomenal success on Broadway and in the West End, multi-award-winning musical Once sets off on its first ever UK tour in 2020, hitting the Belgrade Theatre from 10-14 March.

Imy Wyatt Corner today announces Jade Williams will perform Everywoman.

Quick-fire comedy is calling into town this autumn as a top TV comedian shares some important life lessons.

Part of Inside Out, a year exploring the relationship between our inner lives and creativity, Viviana Durante Company brings the world premiere of Isadora Now to the Barbican Theatre in February 2020.

Through physical theatre, visual art and live improvised music, one of Europe's most distinctive live artists, Thibault Delférière, takes on the great philosophical ideas of the human spirit.

Showaddywaddy brings rock 'n' roll revival to Parr Hall Friday 4 December.

Less than one month into his new job as Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, Carlos Acosta announces plans for world premieres, classic revivals and brand-new partnerships in his first year as Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Still fresh from an outrageously successful Edinburgh Fringe run a?" in which he earned a nomination for Best Show and made Dave's top-10 list for Best Joke a?" Ivo Graham is taking The Game of Life on the road in 2020.

Portuguese company Terceira Pessoa will present the UK premiere of Common Sense as part of our Spring season of work.

The Lowry today announces a new cohort of artists who will be supported by its prestigious Artist Development Programme over 2020.

The Winter Gardens Blackpool and Mark Goucher announced today that Shirley Ballas will star as The Fairy Godmother in Blackpool's biggest ever family pantomime, CINDERELLA, at the Opera House Blackpool from Sunday 13 December to Sunday 3 January 2021.