UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 561

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.

English National Opera (ENO) has appointed Jenny Mollica as Director of Baylis, ENO's learning and participation department.

Paines Plough announces today their appointment of Holly Gladwell as their new Executive Producer.

Svend McEwan-Brown has announced his 16th East Neuk Festival, unveiling an imaginative and wide-ranging programme which runs from Wednesday 1 July a?" Sunday 5 July 2020.

Naomi Wirthner directs Tim Crouch in his acclaimed work, I, Cinna (the poet), the fifth play in his series of solo shows inspired by Shakespeare's minor characters.

After a sold-out debut at Soho Theatre, Cameron Cook's first solo show, IT ALL, comes to VAULT Festival.

When choreographer Joseph Toonga co-founded Just Us Dance Theatre with Ricardo Da Silva and Rudeen February in 2007, a major part of the company's ethos was to inspire, support and nurture others.

TV regular Rupert Hill (Casualty, Coronation Street) will star alongside Phoebe Marshall (Witness for the Prosecution) in a sensual new stage adaptation of D.

Mu Danzas Boleras 1812 - 2012 plays one performance only at the Peacock Theatre on April 19th.

The Trustees of Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse have announced the appointment of Mark Da Vanzo as their new Chief Executive.

Ten Times Table, written by multi award winning writer Alan Ayckbourn, is the inaugural production of The Classic Comedy Theatre Company, produced by Bill Kenwright and his team behind The Agatha Christie, The Classic Thriller and The Classic Screen To Stage theatre companies.

The National Theatre and Fane announce three events in March as celebrated authors Sir Michael Parkinson, Elizabeth Day and Armistead Maupin take to the Lyttelton stage.

Breach theatre's award winning production It's True, It's True, It's True will be shown on BBC Four this Sunday 9th February at 11pm.

Cult cabaret duo and leading lights of the UK's alternative performance scene Bourgeois & Maurice, otherwise known as George Heyworth and Liv Morris, continue HOME's spring 2020 theatre season with the world premiere production of Insane Animals, which runs Friday 28 February - Saturday 14 March 202

This Spring, the acclaimed Watermill Theatre presents the World premiere of a captivating and powerful new folk-inspired musical.

JLA Productions and Actor Awareness present Tom Stock's play NETFLIX & CHILL at The Drayton Arms Theatre, 11 - 29th February (Tue - Sat) at 7.

The Haystack at Hampstead Theatre opens this evening.

Sadler's Wells and Universal Music UK with co-producers Birmingham Hippodrome and The Lowry share news of exciting musical collaborations on the soundtrack of new dance theatre production Message In A Bottle, created by director and choreographer Kate Prince, set to the music of 17-time Grammy Award

Atlantic City.

After two sell-out Edinburgh shows in two years, star of Live At The Apollo and double winner of The Comedian's Choice 'Best Performer Award', Laura Lexx is going on her first UK tour with Knee Jerk.