UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 873

As India celebrates 70 years of independence, Mashi theatre look further back in history, a time of magic, mysticism and storytelling.

Following a critically acclaimed run at Theatre N16 last year, it is today announced that Gareth O'Connor will reprise the titular role of Danny in John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and will be joined by Megan Lloyd-Jones in the role of Roberta.

It is unusual for a director to become a performer.

Mud packs, make-up brushes and mirrors are at the ready for a beauty parlour experience like no other when acclaimed young people's theatre company Oily Cart head out on a regional UK tour this summer from June 12th, with their sweet smelling and sparkly production of MIRROR MIRROR.

Comic opera company Opera della Luna are making their first visit to Chester's exciting new Storyhouse venue with a new production, presented by the city's very own Jeff Clarke at the helm.

Awarding-winning dance company Protein peel back the stereotypes about multicultural Britain by sharing dialogue compiled from the performers' own experiences in a show that has only become more relevant following the Brexit vote and the triggering of Article 50.

Critically acclaimed new Australian play Thirty-Three makes it's UK debut at the Leicester Square Theatre.

New Adventures bring the World Premiere tour of Sir Matthew Bourne's highly acclaimed The Red Shoes to the Lyceum Theatre from Tuesday 30 May - Saturday 3 June.

The brand new musical extravaganza, Bring on the Bollywood transports audiences into a festival of colour and Bollywood magic from 13 - 17 June at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch.

This acclaimed one woman play tells the life story of a woman called Ella Gericke, who lived with her husband Max until one day he died.

The Trustees of the JMK Trust are delighted to announce today that the winner of the 20th anniversary James Menzies-Kitchin Young Director Award is Josh Roche.

Excitement is mounting for the world premiere of a new musical based on Carla Lane's much-loved BBC series The Liver Birds.

Tim McArthur and some of his close chums gather  for an evening of music, stories and lots of silly showbiz fun on Sunday 4th June at Hippodrome Casino.

Wales Millennium Centre's poignant and powerful production of Manfred Karge's Man to Man opens in Cardiff at the Bute Theatre on September 8 - 9.

A hilarious new play called Seriously Dead is bringing comedian Crissy Rock back to Parr Hall next month, and it promises to have the audience dying with laughter.

Dimitra Barla and the Canal Cafe Theatre Present THE CLOAKROOM ATTENDANT on June 2nd - June 3rd at Canal Cafe Theatre.

Offbeat today announces the festival's music programme in partnership with BBC Introducing Oxford.

WRITERS AVENUE THEATRE COMPANY, founded by its Artistic Director, Sandra Thompson-Quartey, specialises in finding, developing and staging new plays by first-time writers.

The sensational Mod musical All or Nothing is coming to the Exeter Northcott Theatre in June.

St Helens Theatre Royal is delighted to announce that Warrington student Lauren Jade Lyon has been crowned the winner of Miss Royal Beauty 2017!

Following an acclaimed 2016 UK Tour, worldwide smash hit musical Footloose: The Musical will burst back onto the stage in 2017 starring Gareth Gates and Maureen Nolan, playing at the Belgrade Theatre from Tues 13 to Sat 17 June.

As the Everyman prepares to open The Sum, the fourth show by the resident Rep Company, the theatre has announced the schedule for the Rep Season that will see all five shows performed multiple times over the space of four weeks in June.

On June 17, between 11am and 1.

The Royal Opera House Muscat (ROHM) is pleased to announce the forthcoming season, 2017-2018: A Legendary Season.

One of the UK's best-loved plays, Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, has gone into rehearsals at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre.