UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 602

An award-winning comedian will be taking to the road next year with an eight-piece band and a brand new show.

You can wait years for a world premiere and then two come along at once! Such are the festive treats awaiting theatre-goers to the Lichfield Garrick in Staffordshire following the unveiling of its Christmas 2019 programme.

Comedian, choirboy and (still) 'aspiring' goalkeeper Lloyd Griffith will set off on a brand new tour of the UK in 2020 with new show, Not Just A Pretty Face.

The previously announced Open Court: Climate Emergency scheduled for March 2020 will be a catalyst for complete organisational transition towards net zero.

Award winning comedian Rob Brydon and his eight-piece band will take to the road next year with a brand new show, Rob Brydon - Songs and Stories.

The Barbican today announces its full January to August 2020 Theatre and Dance programme in the Barbican Theatre and The Pit.

Get a first look at Mold Riots, the large scale promenade production around the streets of Mold, produced by Theatr Clwyd.

Manchester-based dance theatre company Company Chameleon open a UK tour of their new show The Shadow, choreographed by co-Artistic Director, Anthony Missen, at HOME Manchester on Fri 22/Sat 23 November 2019.

Sheffield's award-winning Forced Entertainment return to HOME following their debut at the Manchester arts centre in 2017 with Real Magic performing Out of Order, which plays for three performances, Wednesday 13 - Friday 15 November 2019.

As construction work forges ahead for the new theatre in Brixton, Deborah Bestwick, Director of Ovalhouse for over 20 years, announces the next building block in the transition for the organisation.

Comedy fans are in for a treat this weekend as Pyramid prepares to present a double bill of side-splitting stand-up.

Due to huge demand at the Peacock Theatre, West End the critically acclaimed 30th Anniversary production of Fame the Musical will extend its current run will play for a strictly limited season at the newly opened Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, located in the heart of North West London's new cultur

Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood is coming to Portsmouth as part of his debut solo tour, All Balls and Glitter on Sunday June 21 2020.

Part theatre, part film, and part tribute to Albert Camus' Letters to a German Friend, A Letter to a Friend in Gaza is Amos Gîtai's elegiac and moving address to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, told through the perspectives of those living it.

In March of this year, the American born West End favourite, Lorna Dallas, brought her dazzling new cabaret outing, 'STAGES,' to Crazy Coqs at the Zédel.

It's almost panto time at the Tron Theatre and this year we are delighted to announce that our 2019 pantomime CINDERFELLA (27th Nov 2019 - 5th Jan 2020) is set to defy convention once again by featuring an all-women cast of Tron panto legends, just one year after progressive panto Mammy Goose portra

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In a move to address the lack of British Muslim stories seen on UK stages, east London's Stratford Circus Arts Centre and Bradford's Kala Sangam Arts Centre are to offer seed funding to theatre companies.

The Wyvern Theatre announce that John Cleese's new farce, based on Monsieur Chasse by Georges Feydeau and starring Tessa Peake-Jones, Tony Gardner and Wendi Peters, will be arriving in Swindon next March.

Deafinitely Theatre presents Sarah Kane's 4.

Olivier Award nominee Patrick Ryecart (The Crown, Poldark, The King's Speech) will lead the cast of The Barn Theatre's reimagined actor-musician production of Charles Dickens' festive masterpiece, A Christmas Carol, as Ebenezer Scrooge.

Little Miss Burden, coming to The Bunker this December, is a vital tale of growing up with a wheelchair in the '90s - a poignant new coming-of-age story from award-winning playwright and screenwriter Matilda Ibini.

A new LGBTQ+ theatre festival is to run for three weeks in January 2020 at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre, a collaboration between the venue and Manchester Pride's cultural programming arm Superbia and featuring theatre company Mother's Ruin.

Josh Widdicombe, the guy everyone can do an impression of, is currently touring the UK with his brand new stand-up tour Bit Mucha?? and is delighted to announce he will bringing it to the iconic The London Palladium stage on Sunday 11th October 2020.

Today, commuters at Birmingham New Street station were in for an unexpected surprise as Peanut the baby elephant and Ringmaster Willy Whipsnade arrived in the city centre to celebrate the opening of Circus 1903.