UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 794

Following her debut one-woman show, Songs and Sexcapades, Fifi La Boom! is back with a new show, amusing audiences once again with the story of how she Brexited from the UK and why she left the glamorous London lifestyle for Melbourne suburbia.

With Bryony Kimmings' critically acclaimed A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer heading for the Belgrade Theatre 14-17 February, one member of the creative team will be re-treading familiar turf having spent her student days in Coventry.

Transferring to London from the Edinburgh Fringe, Ballistic is hard hitting new writing inspired by the "manifesto" of Elliot Rodgers, who killed six people and injured fourteen others near the campus of University of California, before killing himself in 2014.

With 12-16 February marking Go Green Week 2018, the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry is getting on board with the campaign with some brand new schemes to help reduce its environmental impact.

Following a sell-out season at the Abbey Theatre as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the 1916 Easter Rising, as well as a successful Irish and US tour, The Plough and the Stars comes to the Lyric Hammersmith as a co-production with the Abbey Theatre.

Fresh from a record-breaking ten-year run in London's West End, the spectacular Michael Jackson concert show Thriller Live moonwalks into Coventry next month, running at the Belgrade Theatre from Tuesday 6 until Saturday 10 March.

Multi award-winning Theatre Ad Infinitum presents Translunar Paradise at The Point on Thursday 22nd February; a critically acclaimed tale of love and loss.

Musical Theatre Network and Mercury Musical Developments today announce Hannah Chissick, Adam Lenson, James Dacre, Peter Rowe, Josh Seymour, Tania Azevedo, Cressida Carre and Kate Golledge as directors for the eight 25-minute extracts from new musicals to be presented at BEAM2018.

New Adventures is delighted to announce casting for the much-anticipated return of Matthew Bourne's "CINDERELLA".

Watford Palace Theatre today announce full casting for their revival of Arthur Miller's play Broken Glass, which opens 80 years after the events of Kristallnacht, leading up to the Second World War.

CILLA - THE MUSICAL, the spectacular and heart-warming musical adaptation of the critically acclaimed ITV mini-series based on the early life of Cilla Black, by BAFTA award winner Jeff Pope, returns to the North-West next month.

Twelve years after arriving in the UK, with too many heartbreaks to count, one child, half a marathon, five drum lessons and a permanently overdrawn bank account, Patricia and Merce are feeling the post-Brexit blues.

Multi award-winning Storyhouse have announced the 2018 summer season is now on sale: A Little Night Music, Swallows and Amazons and The Crucible make up the season of home produced theatre at Storyhouse.

Casting has been announced for Moonfleet, a new British musical based on the novel by J Meade Falkner, to be staged by Salisbury Playhouse (19 April - 5 May 2018; Press Night Tuesday 24 April).

Fran wants to want sex.

(RE)PRESENTED is an ambitious new initiative produced and presented by From Ground Up Theatre Company in association with the Pleasance Theatre to provide an exciting opportunity for drama school graduates without formal representation to be part of the creation of a brand new play.

With nine million hits on their YouTube channel, Foil Arms & Hog have a fast-growing fan-base; their weekly sketches, filmed in Dublin, include the hilarious WTF is Brexit?, US Immigration Test and How to Speak Dublin.

Fertility Fest, the world's first arts festival dedicated to fertility, infertility, modern families and the science of making babies, is delighted to announced the programme for its second edition taking place at Bush Theatre, 8 - 13 May 2018.

Central School of Ballet is announcing that esteemed professional choreographers Jenna Lee and Sophie Laplane have joined the organisation's MA Choreography programme.

As a BBC survey into arts provision in schools last week revealed a 90% cut in creative subjects across the UK, leading figures from the worlds of theatre and education will meet to debate this urgent issue on Friday 20 April at Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

This July Alexandra Palace will welcome a kaleidoscope of music and arts, set high above London within the Park and Palace.

David Serero to perform at the Russian Culture House of London for the Stars of the Albion Festival

Vive Le Rock Magazine are proud to announce their 'First Annual Vive Le Rock Awards' - sponsored by AEG presents, confirmed to take place at London's 02 Islington Academy on Wednesday March 28th.

Following acclaimed runs at both the Kings Head Theatre and the Rosemary Branch, Infinite Space Theatre present Siobhan McMillan's one woman show MIRRORS at the Leicester Square Theatre Lounge in March.

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre's membership scheme, the Friends Of The Grand welcomes a new chairman, former Friends Treasurer, Richard Bourne following a successful 12 year's service from Gordon Hands, who will remain on the committee.