UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 572

A packed spring summer season at Salisbury Arts Centre includes new Exhibitions on Screen and dance performances alongside an almost entirely imagined Bon Jovi musical and the launch of the Arts Centre's Gin Club.

After a search for the next four legged star of the stage, Missy an 8 year old poodle- spitz crossbreed has been cast as Musetta's dog in LA BOHEME, when it arrives at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre on Sunday 26 January 2020.

Today, Mercury Musical Developments and Musical Theatre Network, in partnership with Royal & Derngate Northampton, are delighted to announce the line-up for their upcoming BEAM2020 showcase.

On Saturday 29 February 2020, Steinway pianist and singer Dominic Ferris will return to his alma mater, Hurstpierpoint College in Hassocks, to perform his show Dominic Ferris: Live at Hurst! in the school's newly refurbished theatre.

Frantic Assembly have today released rehearsal images for I Think We Are Alone a major new play by Sally Abbott (The Coroner, Vera), co-directed by Kathy Burke (Lady Windermere's Fan, The Retreat) and Scott Graham (Fatherland, Things I Know to be True).

The inaugural London Climate Change Festival will take place at Charing Cross Theatre, London from 23 March until 16 May 2020, in conjunction with the London transfer of Christopher Durang's Tony Award-winning play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike starring two time Olivier Award-winner Janie Dee,

After 31 years at Opera Holland Park, Michael Volpe, General Director, has decided to take early retirement from his role with the company.

Milton Keynes International Festival, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, has appointed Jenny Sealey MBE, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Graeae, as its Artist-in-Residence for 2020.

Touching three-hander that explores male body image in the gay scene premieres in the opening week of VAULT Festival.

Using several tonnes of rice, Of All The People In All The World by theatre company Stan's Cafe makes otherwise obscure global statistics tangible, offering a grain of truth about our planet: every grain of rice represents someone, somewhere.

Multi award-winning theatre company Mischief Theatre is returning to Storyhouse in Chester this January with new show, Peter Pan Goes Wrong.

Full casting has been announced for the UK and Ireland Tour of Stephen Daldry's seminal production of JB Priestley's classic thriller AN INSPECTOR CALLS which heads to Theatre Royal Brighton from Tuesday 25 a?" Saturday 29 February.

Casting has today been announced for a new play by award-winning playwright Chloë Moss.

Tangram Theatre and Pleasance today announce a double bill of UK premières directed by Daniel Goldman in his first return to the London stage since the critically acclaimed Thebes Land (2017 Off West End Award for Best Production).

In less than two months, the brand new stage production of Helen Forrester's By The Waters Of Liverpool embarks on a 17-venue tour across the UK.

The multi-award-winning spectacular and world's best-loved production of the Blues Brothers returns to Swindon next week following the success of previous shows at the Wyvern in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

The JMK Trust today announces that applications for the 2020 JMK Young Director Award are now open and will close on 24 January at 11pm.

Not I, Catastrophe and Rockaby opens at the Jack Studio on Tuesday 25th February 2020.

Kicking off the start of a new decade and celebrating five years, the Rural Touring Dance Initiative (RTDI) will tour a fresh selection of shows created by dance companies whose work has been enjoyed on both national and international stages and can now be seen in village halls and rural venues acro

The King's Head Theatre, Making Productions, RGM Productions and Suzanne Jones in association with DeVere Productions present the return of Kevin Elyot's Coming Clean to Trafalgar Studios 2.

This month heralds the start of Bristol Old Vic's 2020 season: Year of Artists, an opportunity to celebrate and shout about the importance of the creativity and imagination found in us all.

With her two self-penned plays, Rosalind Blessed returns to the stage with a family affair as she performs alongside her mother, Hildegard Neil, with her father, Brian Blessed, as executive producer.

The cast has been announced for Jermyn Street Theatre's World premiere of The Dog Walker by Paul Minx this February.

Hester Chillingworth directs Nicki Hobday and Nando Messias in Sylvan Oswald's radical new work Trainersa?? a queer, visionary adventure story, which asks what separates us from each other, our bodies, and ourselves, and how we might complete one another.

The Chinese Festival Committee Birmingham and Birmingham Hippodrome have announced Birmingham's massive Chinese New Year celebrations.