UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 648

After the hugely successful first tour of The Classic Thriller Theatre Company's stage adaption of Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, the enjoyable adaptation is extending into the autumn, with a brand-new cast.

The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of objects and photographs from Solomon Islands - around 4,000 items - which have been acquired in a variety of ways over the past 250 years.

In what's believed to be a first for British theatre, Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre is presenting a performance of its summer show Stepping Out with Polish captions.

On 6 September, London's much-loved bent London triflemakers Duckie will revive Leytonstone's formidable homegal for Duckie Loves Fanny; a one night only grand show for 1,000 audience members.

Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment, Hope Mill Theatre and Ray Rackham Theatrical are delighted to announce that Harriet Thorpe and Tim Flavin will star as Vera and Beauregard respectively in the first professional UK revival of Jerry Herman's much loved musical MAME.

THE MARLOWE Comedy Festival has announced that Vic Reeves and Shaun Williamson will join Richard Herring's RHLSTP Tour, here next month (July).

GET READY to laugh all month long as comedy takes over The Marlowe Studio in Canterbury this July.

JULY WILL be a month of dance, music and laughter at The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury.

Winners of the Les Enfants Terribles Edinburgh Award in 2016 and annual producers of the Greenwich Theatre festive studio show, theatre company SharkLegs are now turning their attention to our obsession with online shopping, our casual expectation of next-day delivery and the impact that has on the

The Queen's Theatre Barnstaple announce that Bucks Fizz star Jay Aston will lead the cast of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in this years' magical family pantomime as the Wicked Queen - Lady Vanity.

Liam Scarlett's new production of Swan Lake for The Royal Ballet opened in May 2018, to great critical and audience acclaim.

Following the release of her first career retrospective anthology in May this year, Joan Wasser aka Joan As Police Woman visits The Epstein Theatre on Wednesday 3 July.

Organisers of Brazilica Festival, one of Liverpool's most eagerly anticipated events of the year, today announce the festival music line-up and bands performing in this year's parade.

Music stars Fleur East and Joe McElderry are to star in Bravery To The Bell, a spectacular series of five variety shows across the UK to raise awareness and fundraise for national children's charity, Children with Cancer UK.

Brooke Mauchline Productions and Nicoll Entertainment present the live show of the YouTube sensation Little Baby Bum.

Director of Soho Estates Fawn James and Artistic Director Rachel Edwards together announce the opening programme for the Boulevard as the newly-reimagined venue opens its doors to the public for the first time in October 2019.

Following a highly acclaimed tour of their stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses, Pilot Theatre will next year stage the world premiere of Emteaz Hussain's new adaptation of Alex Wheatle's Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Winner - Crongton Knights.

The UK's leading biennial festival of live art, Fierce has announced the full programme for its 2019 festival, the second edition under Artistic Director Aaron Wright.

So far as is known, Aesop was a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BC.

The Belgrade Theatre Coventry is announcing the appointment of Corey Campbell, Balisha Karra and Justine Themen as the three Creative Leads who will oversee its producing programme for Coventry's year as City of Culture in 2021.

This Christmas, Camden People's Theatre will host its first ever Christmas commission with Sh!t Actually (3 21 Dec), a playfully sideways look at Sh!t Theatre's guilty pleasure: the much-loved (and definitely problematic) festive favourite Love Actually.

The Odds of Being Earnest, which plays at the Connaught Studio on Friday 9 August, is a charming play about chance, the roulette wheel of life … and what happens after the curtain falls on The Importance of Being Earnest.

Baby carried a watermelon - but now you can drink one instead thanks to three delicious new drinks celebrating the arrival of Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage at The Bristol Hippodrome!

The smash hit rock & roll musical Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story has announced its new cast for the forthcoming 30th anniversary tour which stops off at Darlington Hippodrome in September.

Musical theatre star Kerry Ellis will join Steinway pianist and singer Dominic Ferris as his very special guest performer in Dominic Ferris: Me and My Piano at LIVE AT ZEDEL on Monday 1 July at 7.