UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 623

Roll up, roll up for a magical new musical version of a familiar tale - a mammoth production guaranteed to fill the festive period with heart-warming cheer.

Over the last twelve months members of the Darlington Embroiderers' Guild attended tours of Darlington Hippodrome to take inspiration from the story, characters and the building itself to each develop a piece of embroidery that reflects their own interest or connection to the theatre.

Melanie Blake's best-selling debut novel The Thunder Girls has been adapted for the stage by the author and will receive its world premiere at The Lowry this September.

The most spellbinding panto of them all is returning to St Helens Theatre Royal this October a?" and producers are today excited to reveal its stellar cast.

Transferring fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, Cherie My Struggle is an intimate, gossipy memoir recounting Cherie Blair's amazing journey from an obscure Liverpool convent to the epicentre of power in Westminster.

Award-winning podcast, 'The Guilty Feminist' will travel to the BBC Proms on Saturday 14 September for a unique episode looking back at the 2019 season ahead of the Last Night of the Proms.

Claire Gaydon (ARCOLA THEATRE, CAMDEN PEOPLES THEATRE, SUMMERHALL, ASSEMBLY VENUES, LINCOLN DRILL HALL) and Harris Cain in his first major credited role since graduating from East 15 Acting School, have been cast in award-winning Zest Theatre's Youthquake, a new play about being young and changing t

David Hare's award-winning play roars to life in a provocative new site-specific staging performed in The Vaults, London's alternative subterranean venue beneath Waterloo Station, running from Friday 13 September – Sunday 17 November, with a press night on Thursday 19 September.

Zoë Wanamaker and Zrinka Cvitešić lead the cast of Two Ladies, a new play by Nancy Harris to be directed by Nicholas Hytner at the Bridge Theatre.

The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh along with partners Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Northern Stage, Nuffield Southampton Theatres, Oxford Playhouse, and new partner Leeds Playhouse, present Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), presented in close collaboration with partners of the origi

Stick Man is leaving his family tree and heading back out on tour this week! Based on the book by Julia Donaldson with illustrations by Axel Scheffler, Stick Man returns for an Autumn tour, opening at Edinburgh King's Theatre this Friday 6 September, to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the producti

Non-profit organisation Open Door has opened applications for its 2019-2020 Acting and Backstage courses, as well as three new programmes in Essex, Sheffield and Rotherham, to go alongside its existing courses in London and the East Midlands.

Papatango today announces the creative team for the world première of Samuel Bailey's Shook a?" this year's winner of the annual Papatango New Writing Prize.

There are just a few days left for North West artists to enter their work in this year's Contemporary Arts Festival open competition.

This September h Club London is proud to present Women Imprinted, an exhibition that showcases international women artists whose work includes pastel toned print.

Multi award winning David Benson is to lead an all-star cast in a sparkling new audio recording of the Frankie Howerd comedy classic, 'Up Pompeii'.

The world premiere of the bleakly comic, psychological thriller Mites from James Mannion (Hedgehogs & Porcupines, Old Red Lion) comes to Tristan Bates Theatre this October.

The Royal Opera House today announces its 2019/20 Cinema Season which will launch in October.

Birmingham Hippodrome will be hosting a packed week of activities to celebrate the theatre's rich history as part of the national Heritage Open Days festival from Saturday 14 September.

Reuniting the whole team behind last year's hugely successful How To Catch a Krampus, Sink The Pink and Ginger Johnson return to Pleasance Islington for five-weeks of queer, campy, Christmas fun all set to an out-of-this-world live score with Escape From Planet Trash.

Bristol Old Vic today announced its Weston Studio's autumn/winter season celebrating a wide range of voices and experiences, placing writing that spotlights women and Black culture front and centre, while exploring the hard issues of today with the artists of tomorrow.

Claire Gaydon (ARCOLA THEATRE, CAMDEN PEOPLES THEATRE, SUMMERHALL, ASSEMBLY VENUES, LINCOLN DRILL HALL) and Harris Cain in his first major credited role since graduating from East 15 Acting School, have been cast in award-winning Zest Theatre's Youthquake, a new play about being young and changing t

CinemaLive, leading producers and distributors of event cinema, are once again partnering with the UK's Northern Ballet to broadcast their spectacular production of 'DRACULA' LIVE into cinemas across the UK and Ireland for one night only - fittingly on Halloween, 31st October.

After a sell-out 2019 spring tour, acclaimed LGBTI play Gypsy Queen returns to Manchester later this month.

Artists have always been interested in death.