UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 858

Sister Mary McArthur rumoured to be the secret love child of Elaine Paige is heading back to the Edinburgh fringe festival with her new show - Sister Mary's Playtime!

The Belgrade Theatre has launched a campaign to name Coventry's number one song in the countdown to Godiva Rocks, a new musical featuring songs by Coventry artists, premiering on the Main Stage in October.

With newly added dates including in the UK and Europe, award-winning theatre company 1927's Golem continues to challenge and satirise our misuse of technology.

The Red Lion is a powerful, funny and touching locker room drama that reaches beyond the beautiful game, exploring contrasting ideas about loyalty, ambition and what it takes to win, from the perspectives of three different generations.

Leading writers including writer and founder of Fun Palaces Stella Duffy, writer and director of hit BBC Three show Ackee and Saltfish Cecile Emeke, playwright, writer and co-producer of The Handmaid's Tale Dorothy Fortenberry plus novelist and founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction Kate Mosse and

Rah Rah Community Theatre Company has teamed up with The Salvation Army and anti-trafficking charity, Hope For Justice, to bring its production of MY MIND IS FREE by Sam Hall to this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe between the 7th-18th of August to highlight the scale of the human trafficking pro

Adventure into the unseen in a new multi-sensory encounter of shifting sound, colour and light as KlangHaus returns to the unsung spaces of Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall.

Shubbak, London's festival of contemporary Arab culture, has become a key event in the arts calendar of the UK and the Arab World, and 2017 will be the 4th edition of this biennial festival.

Warrington will be busy this July - scroll down for details on events happening this summer in the area!

Shubbak, London's festival of contemporary Arab culture, has become a key event in the arts calendar of the UK and the Arab World, and 2017 will be the 4th edition of this biennial festival, running 1-16 July 2017.

Theatres in Hammersmith and Fulham received a major boost as Arts Council England confirmed that it will invest £7.

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company and Fifth Word present Wreck, written by Toby Campion and directed by Alexandra Moxon.

Grants totalling more than £11 million for arts projects across the county have been welcomed by Kent County Council.

For its tenth anniversary year, CASA Festival joins forces with two of London's leading off-West End theatres Southwark Playhouse and Arcola Theatre to offer London audiences eight weeks of brilliant Latin American theatre and culture.

The British Museum has acquired photographs by nine artists from across the Middle East with support from Art Fund.

Students at Bristnall Hall Academy are celebrating their new partnership with Wolverhampton Grand Theatre thanks to funding from the Big Lottery.

London calls for members of The Marlowe Youth Theatre.

Salford's foremost festival Sounds from the Other City and legendary London producers Serious present a packed programme of live music each Wednesday to Sunday at Manchester International Festival's Festival Square running from 30 June to 16 July.

Family favourite Milkshake! Live will be kicking off the school summer holidays next month when it returns to Parr Hall with more fun and old friends.

Hurried Steps is a hard hitting, powerful text by award-winning Italian writer, Dacia Maraini.

'We're here because we're here', the modern memorial to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, created by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller in collaboration with Rufus Norris, Artistic Director of the National Theatre, has been nominated for a prestigious National Lottery Award.

A sparkling new production of The Wedding Singer will play at Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield for one week only from Tue 18 - Sat 22 July.

Regal Entertainments are excited to announce the all-star cast of its Christmas pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which includes home-grown comedy legend Johnny Vegas.

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

The London Devised Theatre Intensive is a new two-week workshop for theatre makers to share and expand their practice of devising theatre.