UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 663

Kwame Reed, Hoda Bencher, Baba Oyejide and Iain Gordon have been cast in the lead roles in Othello: Remixed.

Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Award-winning play Driving Miss Daisy comes to York Theatre Royal from 7 - 29 June with Paula Wilcox, Cory English and Maurey Richards in leading roles and York Theatre Royal Associate Artist Suzann McLean directing.

The Belgrade Theatre will be helping audiences get into the holiday spirit this June as some of the UK's hottest tribute artists head to Coventry in another exciting live music line-up.

After a sell-out success in 2018, the Italian Theatre Festival returns to The Coronet Theatre to celebrate some of Italy's most distinguished writers and performers.

Rich Hall's critically acclaimed new show begins its second leg of touring and heads to Theatre Royal Brighton on Sun 9 Jun.

This Autumn, paranormal sensation, Clinton Baptiste will embark on a national tour to take audiences on a hilarious yet touching journey through his life, out the other side and beyond the Celestial Curtains.

From the producers that brought audiences Rita, Sue and Bob Too! and The Salon, Regal Entertainments are back with brand-new comedy musical, Achy Breaky Bride next month.

A smash-hit show is returning to town this month to deliver another dose of laugh-out-loud comedy to the women of Warrington.

As excitement builds for the 64th annual Eurovision Song Contest this Saturday, Fareham audiences are already celebrating a win as Eurovision favourite, Nicki French has scored full points by joining the cast of Beauty and the Beast at Ferneham Hall this Christmas and New Year.

A group exhibition by final year students explores the pressures they face at an important turning point in life.

Worthing Theatres are offering a completely free screening of the MGM classic The Wizard of Oz as part of Dementia Action Week, this special dementia-friendly screening will take place at the Connaught Cinema on Tuesday 21st May, 10.

In a first ever collaboration, English National Opera and the Unicorn join forces in presenting Dido, a contemporary staging of Purcell's powerful and emotionally charged masterpiece, Dido and Aeneas, for young audiences.

Boundless Theatre today announces the four recipients of the inaugural Boundless Accelerator Bursary funded by the Garfield Weston Foundation.

An exciting new play by performance poet Oneness Sankara premieres at Hoxton Hall in London.

Trafalgar Entertainment and Stagecoach Performing Arts have appointed two apprentices as part of a pilot apprenticeship scheme intended to give people a chance to develop skills, gain experience and open up opportunities in the theatre and entertainment industry

At the start of the summer Dutch National Ballet & the Junior Company will give a total of nine performances on foreign stages.

From musical theatre to Shakespeare, Aaron Sidwell (Wicked, American Idiot, Loserville, Ghost, EastEnders) and Lauren Samuels (Bend It Like Beckham,Romantics Anonymous, We Will Rock You, Grease, Water Babies, Over The Rainbow) will star as Henry and Katherine respectively, in The Barn Theatre's (Bes

ThisEgg's Edinburgh Festival Fringe-First winner dressed.

Cult performance poet Dr John Cooper Clarke is to bring his new The Luckiest Guy Alive tour to Warrington.

Hot Flushes- The Musical takes us back to 2016 (if you can remember a time before Brexit!) and tells the story of a BHS worker, a pension age woman, who discovers that not only is her BHS pension in jeopardy, and her bus pass on hold, but her state pension has been postponed 6 years without warning.

The UK's 'biggest and best' music quiz is this month returning to Warrington for a third time after selling out its first two events.

Worthing Theatres launch their Summer of Circus season with an exciting, activity-filled, free family fun day, alongside two outdoor performances of Belly of the Whale, performed by world renowned circus company Ockham's Razor.

EastEnders favourite, Todd Carty is ready to set sail to Watersmeet, Rickmansworth this Christmas and New Year as the villainous Captain Hook, leading the cast of Peter Pan, the venue's swashbuckling pantomime for this year.

Families in Coventry and Warwickshire are invited to explore the challenges of change, and specifically of moving schools, in an interactive theatre experience coming to the Belgrade Theatre this month.

The Queen's Theatre Hornchurch has today unveiled its newest additions to its energetic autumn season of produced work, including productions of Love Unspoken with Spare Tyre, Macbeth co-produced with Derby Theatre and Sparky the Elf and the Secret Toyshop.