UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 847

An Evening of Dirty Dancing: The Tribute Show will embark on a UK tour in September starring Julian Essex-Spurrier and Lucy Jane Adcock.

'Nothing to Perform' is a play about nothing.

Celebrate the music of legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen this October in the powerful tribute show like no other, My Leonard Cohen, coming to The Epstein Theatre.

It's been a whirlwind year for comedian and actor Joel Dommett, who finished as runner-up with his highly memorable appearance on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

Michael Grandage today announced the recipients of the second annual MGCfutures Bursaries awarded across a range of theatrical disciplines including directing, writing, producing, video design, choreography and performance makers.

The worse the world gets, the funnier Stuart Black gets.

Edinburgh - are you ready to speak dance? Fans of Spinal Tap and Flight of the Conchords, say 'Hallo!' to your new favourite band.

Character comedian Maddy Anholt returns following five-star sell-outs at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Soho Theatre with Herselves; a brand spanking new and hilarious hour that delves into her surreal and sparkly world of character comedy.

Fresh from his critically acclaimed run of The Trunk at last year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Max Dickins returns with a new one-man play, The Man on the Moor, inspired by the incredible true story.

World Scrabble Champion, Austin Michaels used to know over 200,000 words.

Catherine is a funny, charming highly intelligent misfit.

Grab a voting handset, meet four dangerously desperate contestants and decide their formidable fates.

In the world premiere of Pulitzer/Tony Award nominee Craig Lucas's (Prelude to a Kiss, An American in Paris, Amelie) zany and touching new play, THREE TALES OF LIFE AND DEATH, three stories collide in a world of voyeuristic theatre critics, bartenders with too much spirit and mysterious strangers lo

Dickens Reimagined in the Refugee Crisis: New play Twist asks why is Oliver's story still so familiar?

The sights, sounds and smells of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem - Kubla Khan - are to be re-imagined into a brand new and unique immersive production in August 2017 by one of Britain's most innovative and ground-breaking young people's theatre companies - Oily Cart.

The team behind the latest musical collaboration at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre are delighted to announce the full cast for the show of the Summer.

Nominated twice for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show and Total Fringe Sell Out 2015 and 2016, Sarah Kendall returns with her brand new show One-Seventeen - a blistering new hour of storytelling from the creator and star of the highly critically acclaimed hit BBC Radio 4 series Australian Tri

In Degrees of Error's hilarious and innovative Murder, She Didn't Write, the audience becomes the author as they are invited to help to create their very own Agatha Christie-inspired masterpiece - and to watch it unfold on stage.

In 1978 Richard Sparks wrote the Schoolmaster Sketch and gave it to Rowan Atkinson, who premiered it in Having a Ball at Hampstead Theatre.

The last couple of years have seen Kwame Asante have to embrace a lot of changes: becoming a Junior Doctor, moving away from London and juggling his doctoring with his stand-up.

From the directors of Brendon Burns' 2007 Edinburgh Award Winning show So I Suppose This is Offensive Now, no-filter white Aussie Brendon Burns is teaming up with charming ball of rage Craig Quartermaine to form the first white and Aboriginal Australian double act in history.

Award-winning darlings of the Fringe and recipients of over fifteen five star reviews, Flabbergast Theatre's Boris & Sergey present for your viewing pleasure an hour of explosive action, as dark as it is fun.

Richard Carpenter is Close to You, written and performed by Matthew Floyd Jones, is coming to Underbelly (George Square) from 2-27 August 2017 (not August 15) at 5.

fanSHEN presents LISTS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, performed by Clare Dunn, Shireen Mula & Delme Thomas (won The Stage Award for Acting Excellence in 2016 - Saturday Night Forever, Underbelly) // Direction by Dan Barnard & Rachel Briscoe // Created by Dan Barnard, Rachel Briscoe, Rachel Donovan, Clare

Baba Brinkman is a pioneer of a whole new species of theatre, bringing the excitement of a rap concert together with the wit of a stand-up comic and the mind-expansion of a TED Talk