UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 590

Internationally acclaimed singer Max Raabe & Palast Orchester have announced their very first UK Tour for Spring 2020, which features a Manchester date.

Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, Robert Hastie, today announces the fourteen artists, including writers, directors and producers, who will be supported by the company for the next 12 months.

The Gramophones have received almost £60,000 from Arts Council England and the Lottery's AWA fund to mount ground-breaking new aerial theatre show for families.

Dartington Live will present A Long Long Time, their 2019 winter production from the internationally renowned theatre group Reckless Sleepers.

Out of Joint, Cast, Doncaster and Kiln Theatre, London announced to today that star of Coronation Street and Emmerdale and respected stage actor Bill Ward will lead the cast of their national tour and London run of The Glee Club.

Book now for the world's longest running and most successful tribute to the BBC's iconic sitcom in London's West End, the one-of-a-kind original that's internationally recognised as 'outrageously funny' (BroadwayBaby) and highly acclaimed by audiences and critics alike.

From the producers behind the overwhelmingly successful West End Live Lounge, Unplugged at Crazy Coqs, and Here Come The Girls, SMC productions return to the Crazy Coqs with Let's hear it for the Girls an evening showcasing some of the most impressive female voices of the West End.

Founder of Tara Arts, Jatinder Verma MBE, is to step down as Artistic Director, forty years after founding the ground-breaking company.

Winner of more than five international awards, including a Fringe First, Joe Sellman-Leava comes to Bristol in early 2020 with two staggering one-man productions.

Following the sold-out run at Park Theatre, London, full casting has been announced for the first national tour of The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson, the new political comedy from journalist, broadcaster and playwright Jonathan Maitland (An Audience with Jimmy Savile, Dead Sheep).

This Christmas, Halifax-based theatre company Northern Broadsides will stage a festive fundraiser, Christmas Broadsides from 13 a?" 15 December at The Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough.

Piffaro's Popular Christmas Concert Celebrates The Holidays With A Visit To The Golden Age Of English Caroling featuring 2019 Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman, soprano Nell Snaidas, and local lutenist Mark Rimple

PEPPA PIG'S BEST DAY EVER, a brand new live show based on Entertainment One's much loved animated TV series, will arrive at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Saturday 18 - Sunday 19 April 2020.

Leading wildlife presenter and naturalist Steve Backshall along with World Land Trust are delighted to announce the line-up for One Wild Night with Steve Backshall and Friends which includes the likes of Helen Glover, Dan Snow, Bella Lack and Tanni Grey Thompson and takes place at the Royal Geograph

TicketText Group (TTG), the company behind the renowned London King's Cross comedy venue 2Northdown and ticketing operator TicketText, have announced the launch of Laughing Around, a production company specialising in live comedy that will create original digital content.

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Seann Walsh is heading back out on tour this spring with his hotly anticipated new show Same Again? with 25 dates announced between April and June 2020.

Theatr Clwyd presents Jack and the Beanstalk.

Arcola Theatre and Jump Spark present Amanda Lomas' bold new imagining of Hunger, adapted from the ground-breaking psychological novel by Knut Hamsun.

Full casting is announced today for Once, which embarks on its first major UK tour from January 2020, following a run at Fairfield Halls, Croydon from Thursday 19 December to Saturday 11 January.

The full cast and additional performances have been announced for Curve, Rose Theatre Kingston and Simon Friend Entertainment's brand-new family production of Giraffes Can't Dance.

A brand new adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic Treasure Island swashbuckles its way onto the stage at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre this Christmas.

This morning in Birmingham a brand-new initiative to encourage young people to consider a career in the creative industries launched.

'Persona', the world premiere of a new theatrical adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1966 iconic Swedish psychological movie - considered by many critics as one of the greatest films ever made - is to be the opening production in Studio 3 of the new Riverside Studios.

After a five-year redevelopment the iconic Riverside Studios have a brand-new building as part of a residential development led by London developers Mount Anvil and A2 Dominion.

Excluded is a powerful and urgent piece of new writing that delves into the lives of our young people in education and holds a mirror up, unearthing their issues and exposing a system that ignores some of the most vulnerable in our society.