UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 884

The Watermill Theatre announces the cast of Alan Ayckbourn's duo of comedies, House and Garden, two major productions at the heart of the theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations.

Ted will be treading the boards as Musetta's dog in the cafe scene, with brass bands and lots of street children.

English Touring Opera bring their first Gilbert and Sullivan production to The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, next month (May), along with a Puccini favourite.

Award-winning physical theatre company Gecko's new show The Wedding focuses on personal and political marriage.

Candoco Dance Company is pleased to announce Mickaella Dantas and Olivia Edginton have joined the permanent company.

After a year making a documentary and volunteering on the front-line of the European refugee crisis, critically acclaimed fringe theatre company Craft Theatre returns to London this summer with Sam Shepard's The God of Hell, the first piece in a 12 month season of four shows.

Ever since Fay Wray first charmed the great gorilla in the original 1933 film, King Kong has been a byword for epic cinema, challenging successive filmmakers to outdo the last with bigger and better special effects to impress and terrify audiences in equal measure.

'Cool poems!' said rock legend Patti Smith.

In East London's last remaining bath house, writer and performer Nick Cassenbaum finds what he's looking for, now he's touring around the country to tell you all about it.

Ray Cooney celebrates his 85th birthday and 70 years in showbiz in 2017, and to mark these momentous milestones he is working with producer Tom O'Connell on a brand new season of his classic comedies - including an updated production of his Olivier award-winning Westminster comedy Out of Order.

The Epstein Theatre is delighted to announce that Channel 5's Milkshake! Live, The Magic Storybook will be coming to town on Friday 2nd June, much to the joy of children all across Liverpool!

This Spring, during the centenary of the First World War, composer Verity Standen creates a new immersive, choral experience at three sites of historic significance in the stories of conscientious objection.

A young painter labelled 'one to watch' by Saatchi Art has found inspiration in Warrington Museum & Art Gallery's collection for a new exhibition.

Octagon Theatre Bolton have released rehearsal images for the forthcoming World Premiere of Winter Hill, the new play from internationally acclaimed playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, author of the Olivier award winning Our Country's Good and most recently Jefferson's Garden.

"They said I was violent.

Bullshit London are proud to announce the return of their hugely popular factually inaccurate walking tours which will run from now until the end of October.

The award-winning Hand in Hand Theatre returns to the auspicious Concert Room at St George's Hall Liverpool this July to present a double-bill of two very different plays about women!

Daniel Kramer's production of Romeo and Juliet is now playing in the Globe Theatre until Sunday 9 July.

El Dorado Festival, from the founders of Cirque Du Soul, is one of the need-to-know new additions to the festival calendar, set in the beautiful 5,000 acre Eastnor Castle.

One of the UK's most in-demand comics CARL HUTCHINSON is set to tour his brand new show The Fixer across the UK this spring.

Outlaws to In-laws, which gets its world premiere at London's King's Head Theatre from 29 August - 23 September, is dedicated to the struggles and joys of gay men connecting with each other over the last seven decades.

'I'm about to talk to you about sex, not the sex of cheap mass produced erotica, not the oh-god-oh-yes-oh-no performance sex of porn, not the sex that men want and women aren't sure if they want it or not because they've never known anything else, but real sex, with real bodies.

Motionhouse make a splash as they return to The Peacock with their trademark highly-physical style of dance and acrobatics, combined with lavish imagery projected on a ground-breaking curved set.

Plosive Productions presents the Ottawa premiere(s) of Maestro in English and en francais at The Gladstone Theatre

Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year's Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or supported by the South London venue.