UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 773

The Queen's Theatre Hornchurch has today announced a thrilling variety of productions in its vibrant autumn season of limitless entertainment.

The thrilling work of multi-million selling author Peter James returns to theatres in January 2019 with the world premiere production of the spine-tingling stage play The House on Cold Hill - The announcement comes in the week the acclaimed author hits No.

The Olivier award-winning thriller The 39 Steps will receive its in-the-round UK premiere at the SJT this summer.

London's leading pop-opera girl group, Ida, will perform an impressive collection of re-worked operatic arias, chart-topping hits and musical theatre favourites at The Other Palace on Wednesday 11th July 2018 at 7.

Deafinitely Theatre today announce the creation of the Hub - a new theatre training course for emerging deaf artists to gain structured, accessible, professional theatre training, with the aim of equipping participants for mainstream arts employment.

Probably the closest experience to a BOWIE gig you can get! Holy Holy are Bowie's drummer and Spider Man from Mars - Woody Woodmansey and producer Tony Visconti, who worked on many of Bowie's albums and played Bass on the Man Who Sold The World.

Following his critically acclaimed, up-close reinvention of Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy and sell-out revival of The American Clock, multi-award-winning director Phil Willmott brings the intense focus of the intimate Finborough Theatre to bear on Miller's final work, Finishing The Picture, open

Midlands-based company Sheep Soup will explore the pains of grief and the pitfalls of artistic interpretation in a brand new musical coming to the Belgrade Theatre this spring.

Carleen Anderson announced as final performer for Frederick Douglass: An Abolitionist Returns to Bristol on Bank Holiday Monday.

The Stephen Sondheim Society and Mercury Musical Developments today announce Welsh actress Di Botcher as the special guest performer at the 12th annual West End Gala for The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and the 11th anniversary of The Stiles + Drewe Prize.

Energised by queerness as a creative spanner in the works, this new festival curated by dance artist Amy Bell is a response to the growing urgency within dance to challenge ideas of female power.

The classic musical The Wizard of Oz is announced as Storyhouse's 2018 Christmas show.

Music fans across the North West are set to flock to Parr Hall this October as new wave sensations announce a brand new tour.

After a fantastic repertory Shakespeare double-bill in April, award-winning Daniel Taylor Productions return to Liverpool's Epstein Theatre this October, with a new production of the hard-hitting and gritty drama A Taste Of Honey.

Ten UK school and youth theatre companies will stage ten new plays at the 2018 National Theatre Connections Festival, which takes place in the Dorfman Theatre from 26-30 June.

In a Britain (*Facebook news feed) that demands a political and social conscience, and with the time ticking down til the loss of his youth (*Young Person's Railcard), professional layabout and trustafarian snowflake Ivo Graham needs to stir himself out of his stupor.

Full casting is today announced for Nuffield Southampton Theatres workshop production of Son of Rambow - The Musical, running at The Other Palace from 24 May - 2 June.

Tom Read Wilson, Christopher Biggins, Harriet Thorpe, Jenny The Vixen Ryan from ITVS the Chase and Miss Rory will Co-Host at the fourth annual A MAD Drag Night in aid of The Make A Difference Trust.

As part of Dementia Action Week 2018, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre has today announced plans to begin the process of creating a Dementia Friendly performance for 2019.

A unique one-off outdoor performance of The Last Ship in Newcastle that was due to be held on Bank Holiday Monday has been cancelled, it has been announced.

The Albany Studio is hosting a weekend run of acclaimed London Fringe company, Proforca with their production of FEEL on Friday 15 & Saturday 16 June.

From a unique creative collaboration between Filament theatre and over 600 children, this heartwarming new show is the story of a friendship between an elderly care home resident and a rabbit from space.

For the wounded soldiers of WW1, imagination is their only escape.

Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East, Nadia Fall, today announces Lenny Henry to take on the role of Elmore in August Wilson's King Hedley II as part of her inaugural season.

Flashdance: The Musical stars former Strictly Come Dancing pro Joanne Clifton and A1 heart-throb Ben Adams.