UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 806

Today, today 7th September, a dynamic collaboration between a team of music theatre makers and three of the country's leading homeless charities is being launched.

The countdown to Christmas is officially on so here's a taster of some of the fabulous festive entertainment on show at central London's alternative hub of yuletide performance: Christmas in Leicester Square.

With this year's giant pantomime JACK AND THE BEANSTALK opening on Saturday 9 December, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre today announced that next year's pantomime will be all you've ever dreamed of SLEEPING BEAUTY from Saturday 8 December 2018 Sunday 13 January 2019.

Noted theatrical idiots Splendid Productions team up with panto powerhouse Greenwich Theatre and the legendary performers of Stantonbury Campus to present the most swash-buckling pantomime in the land and put an arrow in your bow, a song in your heart and a smile on your face - an unmissable Christm

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house.

She's grotesque.

A fundraising initiative launched last month is helping to raise funds for a regional professional theatre tour of Glamour Girl, a brand-new play that tells the true but little-known story of one of the most glamorous English courtesan's in all of Paris.

Chivaree Circus return to VAULT Festival with a brand new and extended version of Becoming Shades, taking audiences on an immersive underworld journey in the long dark tunnels of Waterloo's Vaults.

The ground breaking fingersmiths, in co-production with New Wolsey Theatre, today announce that fingersmiths' Jeni Draper will direct John Godber's classic comedy Up 'n' Under on a UK tour in Spring 2018, as part of an innovative partnership with EDRU.

Mike Tweddle, Artistic Director of Tobacco Factory Theatres, has launched the theatre's new season which takes it into 2018 and a transformational year.

A brand-new adaptation of the ever popular THE THREE MUSKETEERS arrives at The Cotswold Playhouse, Gloucestershire from Wednesday 3 Sunday 7 January 2018 providing an action-packed swashbuckling start to the New Year for the whole family!

Last seen in the UK in 2015, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the multi-award winning all-male, comedy ballet company, will return to the UK and receive its Ireland premiere in 2018 during an eight-week, twelve-venue tour beginning at The Peacock, London on 11 September and concluding at Grand

After a critically acclaimed run at the 2017 Camden Fringe, Richard Canal's tale of a clown seeking redemption through honesty and heartfelt truth returns to the Cockpit for a limited run in January 2018.

Christmas is coming (oh yes it is!) which can only mean one thing, it's panto time! This year's festive treat at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, Beauty and the Beast is the fastest-selling pantomime in the theatre's history.

The frank, funny and unapologetically filthy comedian Sarah Millican has announced two dates at Warrington's Parr Hall next year.

The first play to be funded by bitcoin makes a triumphant return with its London premiere, opening VAULT Festival 2018.

Derren Litten's smash hit ITV comedy BENIDORM is set to bring sunshine and smiles to the UK and Ireland as the first ever stage version of the ITV comedy marks its world premiere at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle from Friday 7th September 2018.

From the spectacle of The Sound of Music to the silliness of Spamalot Belgrade Theatre Coventry announce their new season.

Polka Theatre's Christmas production of The Snow Queen runs December 9-February 4.

Get ready to go on a high-flying, PAN-tastic adventure this Christmas with LHK Productions' Peter Pan; opening at The Epstein Theatre this week, from Fri 8 December 2017 Mon 1 January 2018!

Nestle among branches and come touch, see, smell and meet the woodland neighbours in the brand new, immersive and enchanting tree-top world of Hush-A-Bye, created by acclaimed young people's theatre company, Oily Cart.

After an incredibly popular season of conversations in 2017, Jim Carter returns to the Tricycle in 2018, speaking with leading industry actors and directors.

NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL will open its 2018 UK tour in the story's native home town of Coventry at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Tuesday 23 October running until Sunday 28 October 2018 with tickets going on sale to the public today, Monday 4 December 2017, at 10am.

This February, Northern Broadsides are set to stage the premiere of Deborah McAndrew's (UK Theatre Award Best New Play winner An August Bank Holiday Lark) witty new adaptation of Charles Dickens' great Northern novel of repression and longing Hard Times.

The Alchemic Order's highly acclaimed production returns to Dorian Gray's townhouse, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, opening on April 24th 2018 127 years, to the day, since the original publication of Oscar Wilde's only novel.