UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 695

Audiences have been dazzled and moved by Blowin' in the Wind and Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow, the shows that have been presented in Chickenshed's regular spring slot over the last two years.

Amanda Boxer (Mosquitoes, National Theatre; Blue Heart, Orange Tree/Tobacco Factory; The Arab Israeli Cookbook, Gate Theatre/Tricycle Theatre) and Tanya Loretta Dee (Eastenders debut; One Life Stand, Paines Plough; Offside, Futures Theatre) will star in Sacha Voit and Jessica Butcher's Boots.

Sherman Theatre and Tron Theatre Company are delighted to announce the cast for their world premiere co-production of Jo Clifford's bold new play based on Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew.

Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres Robert Hastie today announces the full casts for the debbie tucker green's hang; and the world premiere of his production of the new musical Standing at the Sky's Edge with music and lyrics by Richard Hawley and book by Chris Bush.

Regal Entertainments have announced that star of stage and screen, Linda Lusardi, will join the cast of The Wizard of Oz when it comes to St Helens Theatre Royal this Easter.

Daniel Schumann, Lee Dean and Cambridge Arts Theatre in association with Birmingham Rep today announce the additional venue of Rose Theatre Kingston to the successful UK tour of Rebus: Long Shadows.

The Apollo Nights Summer Series is a new concert experience for the capital.

Following three critically acclaimed runs in London and a highly successful transfer to New York, Donnacadh O'Briain's Olivier award-winning production of ROTTERDAM will play at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from 22 24 April 2019 and is on sale from Friday 1 February with priority booking from Wednesd

'Mum said you could tell everything you needed to know about a person from their pencil case.

Tickets are now on sale to Manly Musical Society's 10th Anniversary production of Les Miserables.

In January 2019, Starbuck Theatre Company will produce the first developmental staged workshop production of MOB WIFE, A Mafia Comedy, a hilarious new original musical by New York City Composer/ Lyricist, Michael Mott, and book writer, Corey Skaggs.

Dancers of Damelahamid is proud to announce the 12th annual Coastal Dance Festival (formerly Coastal First Nations Dance Festival), a celebration of Indigenous stories, song, and dance from Canada and abroad, February 20-24, 2019, in the state-of-the-art Anvil Centre in New Westminster.

Diaries of Madmen is a new production based on Nikolai Gogol's novel Diary of a Madman and Russian musician's Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's personal diaries.

Make It Write theatre producer Sharon Colpman, director Meg McFarlane and writer Helen Jones are treating Liverpool audiences to a unique Western drama, The Barn Swallows, premiering at The Hope Street Theatre from Wed 6 - Sat 9 March 2019.

Tobacco Factory Theatres has announced the casting of its second Factory Company - the resident professional ensemble that will perform new in-house productions of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good between February and May 2019.

Tickets are now on sale for the Manchester run in September 2019 of the National Theatre of Scotland and HOME co-production of the world premiere production of Red Dust Road, Jackie Kay's touching and affecting memoir of her life growing up as a mixed race adopted Scot.

Wise Children and The Old Vic bring their world premiere production of Angela Carter's novel Wise Children, adapted and directed by Emma Rice and co- produced by the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Oxford Playhouse, and York Theatre Royal, to HOME in Manchester Tuesday 26 February - Saturday 2 March 2019

imitating the dog will premiere bold new retelling of Joseph Conrad's iconic novel Heart of Darkness.

Following two critically acclaimed seasons of Shakespeare, the award-winning Daniel Taylor Productions returns to The Epstein Theatre this spring with a production of Macbeth that reunites three stars of the international smash-hit musical Blood Brothers.

Fat Rascal Theatre has announced the cast of the UK tour of their hit Edinburgh show Vulvarine, which tours through Spring 2019.

As Berwick Kaler's 40-year reign as pantomime dame comes to an end, York Theatre Royal has launched a fund to celebrate and continue his legacy.

Rehearsals are well under way for the premiere of the Pilot Theatre in co-production with Derby Theatre's production of Sabrina Mahfouz's exciting new adaptation of Malorie Blackman's critically acclaimed young adult novel of first love in a dangerous fictional dystopia - Noughts & Crosses.

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

The number one selling operatic trio Tenors Un Limited, the 'Rat Pack of Opera', head to Theatre Royal Winchester on Sunday 10 February as part of their 15th anniversary tour.

First names announced for Chester Literature Festival as it prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary in the city.