UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 722

Communication breakdown is at the heart of the Welsh premiere of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years in a new concept by Leeway Productions using sign language as well as sung English.

The Mercury Theatre Colchester and Josef Weinberger Ltd today announce the shortlist of their inaugural Mercury / Weinberger Playwriting Prize.

After an incredibly successful event earlier this year whereby the pair sold out Amsterdam's highly sought-after Warehouse Elementenstraat, Free Your Mind announce a follow up to commence on February 9th 2019! Sasha & John Digweed have had an excellent year in 2018 so it's time to come down to Amste

Paines Plough today announces that Kim Grant will succeed Caro Newling as Chair of the Board of Trustees, following three years of heading up the company's Finance, Audit and Risk Sub-committee.

WICKED YOUNG WRITER AWARDS, created by the producers of the musical WICKED in partnership with the National Literacy Trust, is pleased to announce that entries are now open for the ninth year of the annual national creative writing competition.

In 2019 Elmer the Patchwork Elephant celebrates his 30th Birthday and will be heading out on an extensive tour across the UK.

The Stephen Joseph Theatre presents Jess and Joe Forever, by Zoe Cooper, directed by Lotte Wakeham.

A play that won its writer the title of Most Promising Playwright in last year's Off West End Awards receives its regional premiere at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre this autumn.

Eastbound Theatre, a division of Milford Arts Council (the MAC), announces auditions for the second show of its 25th season, the first fully-staged Connecticut production of the These Shining Lives, by Melanie Marnich, directed by Rich Mancini.

Up In Arms, in association with Pleasance and Ellie Keel, today announce the world premiere of Annie Jenkins' In Lipstick - a new play about the power and powerlessness of youth.

The First Bite Festival is an eclectic mix of extracts and ideas from some of the Midland's most exciting theatre makers.

Following the huge success of its first ever relaxed panto performance in January, the Belgrade Theatre is now on the look-out for keen knitters to lend their skills ahead of their relaxed performance of Sleeping Beauty.

The final piece of Bristol Old Vic's radical reinvention falls into place this November with the launch of its brand new interactive heritage experience.

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre recently announced that as a business one of their focuses is to be plastic free by 2022.

Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative have today announced initial casting for the first ever UK stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's much-loved Miss Marple thriller The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.

Tthe winners of the 2018 Achates Philanthropy Prize, the only annual Prize that celebrates first-time cultural giving in the UK, were announced last night at a special event hosted by the eminent cultural philanthropist, Sarah Kowitz DL, at London's Roundhouse.

Comedian, author, cultural icon and - most recently - idiot who agreed to be tortured on 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!', Shappi Khorsandi is a woman of many parts.

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

The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) has appointed David Hill as international chair in choral conducting.

The Hope Street Theatre have announced their first professional in-house production will be a revival of Patrick Marber's award-winning play Closer.

The songs of Marc Almond and Soft Cell are set to win over new audiences in a ground-breaking new stage musical - "Tainted"

Monkey Toast welcomes special guests, writer/director of the Canadian feature film, Becoming Burlesque, Jackie English and author/speaker & former MT host, Ron Tite!

Theatre Royal Stratford East today announces that on Thursday 8 November they will host Queer Lates, a cabaret night paying tribute to the East End's queer scene and celebrating queer performance and the contribution of the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies.

Proud and Loud Arts catapult into their Autumn 2018 season with Cells - A Body of Work (#CABOW) - an arresting and bold collection of live performance installations in response to the rise in reported hate crime towards people living with disability labels.

Chris Goode's new solo storytelling show is a sad and strange fairytale for adults about what happens when you refuse to accept that you're lost.