UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 901

Following their hugely successful touring productions of Plastic Figurines and Chip Shop Chips, Manchester theatre company Box of Tricks bring their critically-acclaimed new play with songs, Narvik, by award-winning playwright Lizzie Nunnery, to London's New Diorama Theatre.

Today, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre revealed the first casting announcement for the 2017/18 pantomime.

Finborough Theatre has just announced its Spring-Summer Season.

Following the sellout success last year at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 201 Dance Company and Patrick Collier Production Company are embarking on the premiere UK tour of SMOTHER from April - June 2017.

King of the Edinburgh Fringe Richard Herring will be royally entertaining audiences at The Epstein Theatre next week.

??????? Theatre is proud to announce that Physical Fest, Liverpool's international physical theatre festival, is returning for 2017 and is set to be bigger and better than ever!

With their critically acclaimed production of Stephen Karam's Speech and Debate running at the Trafalgar Studios, Defibrillator Artistic Director James Hillier today announces a casting update for their production of Sam Shepherd's A Lie of the Mind.

Watford Palace Theatre proudly presents the world premiere musical I Capture the Castle, based on the iconic novel by Dodie Smith, and co-produced with the Octagon Theatre Bolton and Kevin Wallace Limited, in association with Deborah Ward.

Sheffield Theatres has announced an array of exciting smash-hit productions for the forthcoming season, including West End hit musical Beautiful The Carole King Musical, the reunion of Hollywood stars Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal in acclaimed Broadway play Love Letters, EastEnders Rita Simon in Legal

Following the successful screenings of Measure for Measure and Ubu Roi, Cheek by Jowl today announce the screening of their latest production of The Winter's Tale live from the Barbican Centre on 19 April at 7.

Danielle Flett (Doctor Faustus, Duke of Yorks; Vera Vera Vera, Royal Court), Morgan Watkins (Silent Witness, BBC; Suffragette), George Whitehead (Love's Labour's Lost, Oxford Shakespeare Company) and Daniel Kendrick (Fury, Soho Theatre; Call The Midwife, BBC) have been cast in The Monkey by John Sta

???????If your dog didn't make it to Crufts this weekend fear not as they will still have their chance to shine!

???????Following a record sell-out two nights of her show, Doreen's Grand Night Out in 2016 and receiving huge critical acclaim in Wolverhampton's 2016/17 pantomime Aladdin, Doreen Tipton is back at the Grand Theatre with her brand new show DOREEN: RISE OF THE YAM YAM on Sunday 22 October.

Girl in the Machine, presents a disturbing but compassionate take on our potential digital future, and what it might mean for 'life' as we know it.

Strictly superstars Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace return to the stage with their most audacious and thrilling show yet, Tango Moderno.

Spanish performer Joan Vazquez brings back 'Something's Coming - a Sondheim tribute' as part of Live at Zedel summer season, after his acclaimed London debut last Fall.

The Board of Norfolk & Norwich Festival has just announced that at the end of this year's festival in May, the Artistic Director William Galinsky will be stepping down from the role he has held for 7 years.

Following the unprecedented multi-award winning success of his first stage play, What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, Luke Wright will return to his roots in the first half of 2017 with a 21-date tour, performing poems from his new collection The Toll, published in February 2017 (Penned in the Margins)

Continuing our new 2017 season, Above The Stag Theatre presents the UK Premiere Southern Baptist Sissies by Del Shores, directed by Gene David Kirk (Party, Haram Iran, The Sum of Us) from 8 March.

This April, the Belgrade Theatre Coventry will present the European premiere production of The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, the award-winning off-Broadway musical by Kirsten Childs.

Manchester International Festival today announces the programme for the 2017 Festival, which takes place 29 June - 16 July this year.

Fresh from their appearance on ITV 1's The Next Great Magician, and sell-out seasons in 2015 and 2016 at the Edinburgh Fringe and on the London Southbank the time-travelling magicians Morgan & West are off to Greenwich Theatre next month (Wed 5 April) with two critically acclaimed magic shows fo

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'Comedy, tragedy, 80's disco music, wine and a lot of food will mix together as the dead are leaving the stage and joining the auditorium.

???????FIRST Festival of Solo Performance is Tristan Bates Theatre's annual Festival of Solo Performances, first curated in 2013 gaining the support of Arts Council England in 2014.