UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 815

The music legend that is Alexander O'Neal is to grace the stage of Warrington's Parr Hall next month.

In four weeks, the critically acclaimed production of Things I Know To Be True arrives in Chester, featuring a fantastic cast including Chester born Cate Hamer and Liverpool actor John McArdle.

Flycatcher is a darkly comic thriller, which follows a web-woven world, where no one is seen for who they really are.

The countdown is on to the arrival of the hotly-anticipated new NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL at Palace Theatre Manchester.

Warrington families are in for a festive treat next month with the new show Father Christmas Comes up Trumps!

DragWorld, Europe's largest Drag Convention returns to the UK after last year's successful debut in London, where 11,000 tickets were sold and fans from as far as Australia, United Arab Emirates, USA and Japan all flocked in for the popular Drag experience.

One of the country's top theatre directors and producers has been named as the first Chair of The Marlowe Theatre Trust.

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

Acclaimed young playwright Carguil Lloyd George Webley brings his new play Shadows to Theatro Technis in London, exploring the lives of black inmates who have been placed in the same cell in a Birmingham prison.

Kodo is one of the best known and most influential taiko performing arts ensemble in the world and returns to the UK in 2018 with the European premiere performances of Evolution.

The festive season is once again under threat and your mission - should you choose to accept is to enter the depths of the fortress like Contact Theatre and embark on an immersive theatrical adventure to end the Siege of Christmas.

Cilla the Musical is on its way to Manchester's Palace Theatre this month.

After the critical national success earlier this year with their UK Theatre award-winning production of Lizzie Nunnery's Narvik, Manchester theatre company Box of Tricks are set to tour in 2018 their acclaimed 2016 production of Becky Prestwich's funny and nostalgic tale of love over fish and

Watch out! The cabbage-crunching, criminal mastermind Gangsta Granny is coming to Storyhouse Chester next spring.

New York playwright John Yarbrough's THE ROSE-RED CITY won the top audience prize at the British Theatre Challenge at London's Stockwell Playhouse, held October 20 & 21.

Today 4th November will see performers get together to help a local charity group.

England, 1953.

Critically acclaimed Front Foot Theatre presents William Shakespeare's classic play Richard III.

The Epstein Theatre is shaping up for yet another jam-packed month, with none other than thirteen fantastic shows rolling into town for a fun filled November.

A celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston is on route to Warrington.

Devil You Know Theatre Company presents a thrilling new version of one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, charting the bloody rise and downfall of the legendary warrior Macbeth.

Sleeping Beauty - The Rock N Roll Panto will be opening at Theatr Clwyd from the 24 November.

The acclaimed no-holds-barred immersive, in-yer-face theatre staging of Irvine Welsh's classic, Trainspotting Live - direct from world tour - is to return to London for an 8-week season at the Vaults from 27 March 20 May 2018.

With Christmas less than 7 weeks away, the Belgrade Theatre has announced the cast for this year's glittering pantomime, Cinderella, including legendary children's TV presenter and panto dame, Iain Lauchlan.

Live At Zedel, Soho's unique live entertainment concept at The Crazy Coqs, will host a week-long residency by acclaimed international songwriter Scott Alan, who will be joined by a host of special musical theatre guests each evening.