UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 886

Strictly Come Dancing's Joanne Clifton is heading to the Palace Theatre, Manchester, in four weeks when she stars in the lead role in hit musical Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Punts is a hilarious and moving new play by Sarah Page about a young man's sexual awakening and its effect on those who orchestrated it.

Children and families that go to Ulla's Odyssey at Greenwich Theatre on Sunday, April 30, could also be involved in an artistic revolution aiming to knock down the barriers that have built up around opera.

Seventeen year old Ben Thomas from Swansea is the 2017 Welsh Musical Theatre Young Singer Of The Year.

Full casting has been announced for the brand new Bollywood dance-theatre extravaganza, Bring On The Bollywood.

Dan Looney in association with Paulden Hall Productions, Tom O'Connell Productions, Jason Haigh-Ellery and Tim Lawson present The Wedding Singer.

Celebrated singer-songwriter Tori Amos unveils her hotly-anticipated new album Native Invader - to be released on Decca Records on 8 September - and world tour, which includes a performance at Manchester Palace Theatre for one night only on Thursday 5 October with tickets going on sale on Friday 28

Royal Court Theatre has announced the cast for Anatomy Of A Suicide, written by Alice Birch, directed by Katie Mitchell.

The Gilded Balloon and Kinbur Productions are to revive the full-length version of Michael Burrell's award winning one-man play, HESS, a poignant and haunting production that has stimulated, moved and provoked debate, whilst also giving a fascinating insight into the nature of evil, retribution, rep

Award-winning LynchPin Productions Theatre Company confirmed new tour dates for You Give Me Fever - the Phaedra Cabaret coming to the Brighton Fringe, Hemingways of Haslemere.

Following her debut solo recital at Cadogan Hall in 2016, internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Kirstin Chavez returns to the UK to perform her conceptual production Carmen - Fire and Fate, a one-woman show with dancing, drama and Bizet's stunning music.

The team behind Park Theatre hits Dead Sheep, An Audience with Jimmy Savile, Deny Deny Deny and The Roundabout, will return to the theatre with the world premiere of a brand new comedy, TWITSTORM, playing from 31 May - 1 July, with a press night on 1 June.

Come and join London's newest Improv troupe 'Simprov', for their first ever show - SupercalifragilisticexpialiSIMPROV!

Quirky comedy The Chainsaw Manicure by Thomas Kett will play at the Tabard Theatre for a limited 3 week run in its first London revival.

Yellow Earth Theatre Company's Constellation Creatives Drama Student Bursary of £1000 was launched in 2012 to be awarded to a final year drama school student of East Asian descent.

Rock n roll legend Shakin' Stevens is to grace the Parr Hall stage on his biggest ever UK tour.

The Wandsworth Arts Fringe takes over South West London for two weeks in May with a rich array of shows that tackle some of the most pertinent issues of our time.

Freelance director, producer and playwright Adam Morley will soon be announcing the shortlist of the inaugural Adam Morley Sponsor a Playwright Bursary, which will gift the winning writer with £1000 to further develop the script to production in 2018.

ABBA - Forever, presented by Sweeney Entertainments, is one of the UK's leading International tribute shows and theatre audiences from across Great Britain and Sweden have long enjoyed this superb recreation of possibly the world's greatest pop band.

Adapted from the bestselling books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (creators of The Gruffalo), it's now time for Tiddler & Other Terrific Tales to swim up the Thames and into Leicester Square Theatre for a summer full of fun!

Jeffrey Holland stars as Tom Ballard and Nichola McAuliffe as Diana Trent in the premiere stage production of the BAFTA-nominated WAITING FOR GOD which begins a 12 week UK tour this week.

Liverpool Pride Festival has revealed that acclaimed Mersey singer Marc Almond will headline the Summer 2017 event.

Inspired by director Annemiek Van Elst's experiences of her brother converting to Islam, the world premiere of Becoming Mohammed comes to Pleasance Theatre.

Described as "old school virtuosity," by Time Out, star of the West End's 'Rat Pack' Gary Williams celebrates some of Hollywood's greatest musical moments.

Set in his home city in the month of Ramadan, Combustion is the first full-length play by Bradford-born Asif Khan, a new comic drama set in a local garage in the lead-up to a march by far-right nationalists.