UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 834

Following on from the recent successes of Addams Family, Acorn Antiques The Musical and last year's sell out show Annie, Pilkington Musical Theatre Company will be bringing the hilarious and heavenly Sister Act The Musical to the stage at St Helens Theatre Royal from Thu 12 Sat 14 October.

Pegasus Opera Company honours the life of its founder Lloyd Newton and Black History month by staging Celebrate Pegasus! concert on Thursday 5 October at the Actors Church (St Paul's) Covent Garden, Bedford Street, London WC2E 9ED.

Artistic Director of Print Room at the Coronet Anda Winters has curated a month-long festival representing the theatre's diverse, multi-artform programme and made up almost entirely of UK premieres.

Lost in Translation's ever popular family show The Hogwallops has just announced new dates for October 2017.

Multi-award-winning and internationally recognised choreographer Yasmeen Godder will premiere her new work Face In this Autumn, commissioned by Candoco Dance Company and performed by their company of disabled and non-disabled dancers.

David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers will produce the 2018 UK & Ireland Tour of the Old Vic production of Yasmina Reza's Olivier, Tony and Moliere award-winning comedy ART, translated by Christopher Hampton.

Following a successful festival last year, Brighton Horrorfest is returning to Sweet Venues for 2017, with even more frights for the nights leading up to Halloween.

Biff is not like ordinary dogs.

Experimental Catalan company forge an epic journey through 21st century life that encompasses dictatorships, national anthems, education, self-help manuals, nightclubs and love.

Critically-acclaimed arts innovators Upstart Theatre present the second annual DARE Festival at Shoreditch Town Hall, bringing together artists and audiences from across London and beyond in an explosion of new and in-development performance presented at the earliest possible stage.

Leading immersive and digital performance innovators ZU-UK have announced a season of developed works and prototype performances that use binaural sound and interactive performance to explore playful, unexpected and meaningful interactions between strangers in public spaces.

The world's most successful musical theatre group Collabro are to give all proceeds from the release of their first ever single 'Lighthouse' to Save the Children's Emergency Fund in wake of Hurricane Irma.

In a brand new comic adaptation by stand-up comedian Sara Pascoe, with an original score from Emmy the Great and directed by Susannah Tresilian (Director of Posh at Nottingham Playhouse in 2015), prepare yourself for a playful, truthful and occasionally disrespectful take on this brilliant novel.

Prior to its international tour in 2018, award winning choreographer Jasmin Vardimon's adaptation of the classic fairy tale Pinocchio returns to Sadler's Wells this October.

To celebrate the return of award-winning one-act ballet 'Still Life' at the Penguin Caf this September, Birmingham Royal Ballet have taken a bold step forward into the digital world with the introduction of Augmented Reality posters in and around popular wildlife sites in the West Midlands.

The London Horror Festival is back for a 7th terrifying year to thrill and chill audiences for 3 jam packed weeks this Halloween season.

A major revival of the classic, edge of your seat, thriller Wait Until Dark comes to Exeter next month.

To Kill A King have today released their new single 'Spiritual Dark Age' and announced a headline tour for January 2018.

Smoking Apples presents In Our Hands, the tale of a humble fisherman as he fights against the tangled nets of legislation, quota and big corporations and finds salvation in sardines, on tour across the UK, now through 13th October.

The World Premi re of Chris Thompson's OF KITH AND KIN, a Sheffield Theatres & Bush Theatre co-production, stars Joanna Bacon (Lydia and Carrie), Donna Berlin (Arabelle), James Lance (Daniel), Chetna Pandya (Priya), and Joshua Silver (Oliver), running now through 7 October at Sheffield Theatres, fol

Everyone's favourite CBeebies double act Chris & Pui are bringing their popular family show back to Parr Hall next month, just in time for the school holidays.

Following their critically-acclaimed 2017 summer tour of The Wind in the Willows, Immersion Theatre Company are thrilled to announce that they will be bringing their trademark energy to their wildest show yet, a brand new musical adaptation of the family classic, The Jungle Book!

Each month, Peter Marinker and friends present incisive, subversive writing from every era in READINGS.

Following on from its hugely successful run of performances at Stockport Plaza in August, The Wizard of Oz is back on the yellow brick road and heading towards Southport, Liverpool and Rhyl this October to continue its North West tour!

The award-winning KALI THEATRE specialises in presenting new plays by South Asian female playwrights, a mission that has been instrumental in developing talent and taking powerful new work to increasing audiences and critical acclaim across the UK for the past 25 years.