UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 934

Craig Revel Horwood directs million selling X Factor winner Alexandra Burke in the hit musical comedy Sister Act at the Lyceum Theatre from Monday 16 - Saturday 21 January.

Theatre Royal Stratford East today announces that their acclaimed pantomime will be live streamed to children at Newham University Hospital and Richard House Children's Hospice on 29th December.

For their spring season 2017, Ovalhouse have returned to their roots of home-grown talent, staging urgent, radical theatre that continues to inspire.

Showcasing the winners of Synergy's national prison scriptwriting competition, Homecomings is a festival of new work by prisoners and ex-prisoners about getting out and going home featuring Glory Whispers by Sonya Hale and The Monkey by John Stanley.

Following a successful run in Madrid, THE ART OF THE BRICK: DC SUPER HEROES makes its London debut on 1st March 2017.

Ovation presents ANYTHING GOES, with Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter, and Book by Guy Bolton, P.

Following the success of their Edinburgh Festival season, and riding on the 2016 hit Underground, Shrapnel Theatre returns to VAULT Festivalin 2017 with The Litterati, reuniting director Kate Tiernan and writer Isla van Tricht with a brand new story of riots, hedonism and human potential.

50 x 50 II is an exhibition that presents 50 new works of art by 50 emerging artists.

Buckland Theatre Company presents LUV, the company's second production at PARK90 at Park Theatre now until 7 January, with an official press night tonight 13 December.

The 1980's saw a major shift towards the emergence of a global gay club culture, but it was set against a backdrop of desperate levels of unemployment, riots, driven by racism, and AIDS casually reported as a gay plague.

Touring the breadth of the country and with narratives that span continents, Fuel's upcoming work showcases their characteristically diverse mix of new work and hit shows from established and emerging artists from the UK and beyond.

"All great men know, the soul of life is fame.

Daisy Lewis, star of ITV's Downton Abbey, paid tribute to NYT for supporting her in her early career development.

Theatre by The Lake (TBTL) - Cumbria's only producing theatre - is delighted to announce its eagerly anticipated 2017 season, the first under the leadership of new Artistic Director, Conrad Lynch - marking the theatre's bold move to being a producer-led venue for the first time.

Charlie Baker's Cabaret Boulangerie is better than the best show in town: a fast-paced old school 'floor show' where the hottest stand-ups mingle with street dancers, while the world's best trombone player is next in the queue to perform.

Fresh of their win at The Greater Manchester Fringe Awards for the hit play Porno Chic that picked up the award for Best New Drama and Nominated for the Write for the Stage Award, Manchester's most successful fringe theatre company Vertigo Theatre Productions are back this December with the brand-ne

With Christmas fast approaching, The Bristol Hippodrome presents this year's magical family pantomime Cinderella, starring national icons Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean as the Fairy Godparents, as previously announced.

This week [14-16 Dec] five young people from Hull will travel to Aarhus in Denmark to take part in a cultural exchange as part of 2097: We Made Ourselves Over, an ambitious international collaboration with Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and Aarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture.

AND THEY'RE OFF.

"I want to be rich.

Award winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie is set to tour the UK in 2017 opening at New Wimbledon Theatre on Tuesday 17 January.

The Papatango New Writing Prize, now in its ninth incarnation, opens for submissions today, 12 December 2016, until midnight on 5 March 2017.

The Belgrade Theatre is one of just five theatre companies across England to join up with the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme (RTYDS) to offer training opportunities and nurture new talent within the industry.

Sherman Theatre is to become the first Welsh producing theatre to co-produce a show with the Royal Court Theatre, London with the world premiere of Gary Owen's Killology highlighting as part of their Spring season of work.