UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 712

Manchester film fans are promised a festive treat with the announcement of the Magical Christmas Movie Experience opening in the city next month.

Charles Court Opera are to return to the King's Head Theatre for their 12th dazzling, delightful and downright hilarious boutique pantomime - a brand new production of one of the company's greatest hits, Buttons: A Cinderella Story.

The Marlowe Canterbury premieres two new plays for children this Christmas.

Dan Snow the 'History Guy' believes that history is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to anyone on this planet and on his best-selling tour An Evening With the 'History Guy' On The History Hit UK Tour, the historian and broadcaster will be telling audiences why!

Oily Cart is delighted to announce the appointment of its new Artistic Director, Ellie Griffiths and its first ever Executive Director, Zoe Lally.

Mandy Muden, whose sensational appearances on the 2018 Britain's Got Talent, won critical acclaim from both judges and public alike, takes to the road in 2019 with her first solo tour CUNNING STUNTS - a brand new hilarious show.

With just over two weeks left of DaDaFest International 2018, festivalgoers are being urged not to miss key highlights still to come - including headline comedy acts and new art exhibitions.

Final casting is announced for the world premiere of Club Mex, a part-immersive, part-musical clubbing experience, at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, from Thursday 17 January - Sunday 10 February 2019.

With Sold Out signs at theatres around the UK for Simon Reeve's first ever theatre tour, the much-loved TV traveller announces a series of extra dates for Autumn 2019.

BBC Strictly Come Dancing's favourite male professionals, Ian Waite and Vincent Simone are joining together for the very first time in their brand new production - The Ballroom Boys, a show they say is going to be "a lot of fun!" as the title suggests!

Up In Arms, in association with Pleasance and Ellie Keel, today announce the full cast for the world premiere of Annie Jenkins' In Lipstick.

Punchdrunk had announced The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia, the definitive book on the company's work to date, which will be released to mark eighteen years of Punchdrunk's existence.

Following extraordinary public demand, Russell Kane has added a further run of dates to his brand new tour The Fast And The Curious, extending it through to autumn 2019.

A festive housewarming awaits the two new spaces at Bristol Old Vic: the brand-new Weston Studio and the lovingly restored Coopers' Loft, tucked cosily in the attic space of the theatre, both of which are now open to public performances for the first time.

Europe's first ever pop-up Shakespearean Theatre - SHAKESPEARE'S ROSE THEATRE - today announced its expansion for 2019 with a summer residency of 9 weeks at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.

Staged by Sir Matthew's company New Adventures, Romeo And Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare's classic love story.

Debbie Bridge and Heide Yates are 2 Canadian singers who will be heading to Hammersmith's Rutland Arms to bring you - a new show called - Cabareta.

Sherman Theatre's Spring 2019 season is the final season Rachel O'Riordan has programmed as Artistic Director prior to her move to London's Lyric Hammersmith.

Sheffield Theatres presents Paul Foster's major revival of Kiss Me, Kate.

Cardiff's pub theatre The Other Room, located in Porter's and winner of The Stage's Fringe Theatre of the Year Award 2016, today announce the winner of the Violet Burns Playwright Award, which aims to help discover and develop Welsh and Wales-based female playwrights.

Cinderella, this year's Marlowe pantomime, opens on Friday (23 November).

Expelled from the Royal Shakespeare Company due to 'artistic differences', disgraced actor Garry Starr is defying his critics by performing every genre of theatre imaginable, thus saving the performing arts from inevitable extinction.

Wise Children today announces an additional date for the UK tour of Emma Rice's adaptation of Wise Children by Angela Carter.

Siren Festival will take over the O2 Academy Islington on 5th December, for a special London preview of the festival's fifth edition in July 2019.