UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 897

The wife of a prison camp commandant is throwing a party.

West End leading lady Natasha J Barnes and recording artist Darius Campbell lead the cast of Funny Girl at The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, in May.

St George's Hall recently announced that they will once again be unveiling the venues' famous Minton Tiled flooring from Thursday 13th - Wednesday 19th April 2017.

Gok Wan, the man who encouraged women and men to 'get naked' in his six season Channel 4 series How To Look Good Naked  is finally 'getting naked' himself with the announcement of a brand new stage show Gok Wan Naked & Baring All coming to The Epstein Theatre on Wednesday 15th November 2017.

The Olivier Award winning theatre company, OperaUpClose, will bring their first ever opera for children and families to the Belgrade Theatre from Tues 28 to Thurs 30 Mar.

Birmingham's renowned pop and reggae band UB40, who have accrued 3 number 1's and a massive 17 top 10 hits in the UK top 40 including 'Red, Red wine', 'I got you babe' &' I can't help falling in love with you' announce 'Cities and Towns' a 13 date tour across the UK from 4 - 22 December 2017.

A delightful stage version of Jane Austen's earliest novel, Northanger Abbey, comes to Exeter Northcott Theatre, running running Mon 3 - Thu 6 April 2017.

Following a debut season at London's iconic Soho Theatre, Award-winning Scottish comic Scott Gibson is taking his critically-lauded, sold-out Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Life After Death, out on the road in 2017.

Casting has just been announced for the first new musical to be staged at Live at Zedel at Crazy Coqs.

???????Many of the entertainment industries brightest talents have cut their teeth in Edinburgh in August at the Pleasance.

???????A brand new season of West End musicals, gripping dramas, dynamic dance and one night concerts on sale next week at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre.

Bill Kenwright presents the highly anticipated first ever UK tour of the Tony and Olivier award winning LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, which opens at New Oxford Theatre on Thursday 5th January.

Jennifer Sutherland, co-founder of the multi award-winning Scamp Theatre, has launched Freckle Productions with a focus on bringing inspirational stories to the stage for children, young people and families.

The legends of Children's TV, Dick and Dom are about to be unleashed on a theatre near you.

Emerging Midlands playwright and producer, Thomas Moran presents the premiere of NOISE at The Old Rep Birmingham, a heart-warming story of identity and togetherness in a time when division in society seems increasingly prevalent.

???????With just over one week to go until the opening Beauty and the Beast at St Helens Theatre Royal, Regal Entertainments gave the Merseyside media a sneak preview of their egg-citing Easter panto at a press launch held at the elegant Doubletree Hotel in Liverpool.

This Easter, Honk! the musical returns to London in a brand-new, actor-musician egg-stravaganza, filled with puppetry, magic and illusions.

Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends is the first ever exhibition devoted to the portraits of the great British painter Howard Hodgkin, who died earlier this month at the age of 84.

???????The National Theatre brings their thrilling and imaginative new adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece Jane Eyre to the Lyceum stage from Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 April.

This musical comedy is based on an earlier musical short of the same name by Louis Jordan from 1943.

A new choral theatre production has been announced for Spring in one of Liverpool's most stunning venues - with an opportunity for community singers to get involved.

The team behind the city's CIRCO brand has unveiled its next generation of entertainment in the form of Never Ever Land.

World Premiere of BAFTA winning writer John Foster neo-noir play at London's newly refurbished White Bear Theatre.

Central School of Ballet, the world-leading professional dance training organisation and part of the renowned Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, today announces a campaign to raise the final £6m to fund their bespoke new premises in Paris Gardens in London's flourishing arts community on the South

Following their hugely successful touring productions of Pure and Canary Girls, the award winning Mikron Theatre are set to take to the seas with the premiere of Laurence Peacock's new play celebrating two hundred years of the RNLI - In At The Deep End.