UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 977

?Women and War is a month long festival examining the effect of warfare on women worldwide.

Rachael Williams will join Park Theatre on 3 October 2016 as the theatre's new Executive Director, to work alongside Artistic Director Jez Bond and the rest of the team, including Dawn James, who recently joined as Sales & Marketing Manager from the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn.

19-year-old Holly Hamer is determined not to be known as 'the girl with cancer' because she also happens to be a very talented artist.

?Anyone with the passion to experience theatre from the inside is being invited to join Greenwich Theatre as a volunteer.

This autumn The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama will be putting on an Actor's Showcase in New York.

With the summer holidays fast approaching the Belgrade Theatre is delighted to announce the return of its ever popular Summer School which will run from Mon 25 - Fri 29 July for ages 8- 11 and 11 - 16 years.

Producers Karl Sydow and Paul Elliott are delighted to announce that due to overwhelming demand for tickets around the country, even more dates have now been added to the UK and Ireland tour of the brand new production of Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage.

Starring Daniel Portman (Podrick Payne, Game of Thrones) and Lily Loveless (Naomi, Skins), John Fowles' classic story of obsession comes to the Vaults Theatre in London this August in a brand new production directed by Joe Hufton (Associate Director, Alice's Adventures Underground; director, Secre

DON'T LOOK DOWN will play the King's Head Theatre, Islington, 20, 24 and 29 July 2016.

Show business legend Tommy Steele tells the extraordinary tale of America's most famous big band leader in The Glenn Miller Story from Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 August at the Lyceum Theatre.

Liverpool based Tmesis Theatre, are getting ready to make UK audiences happy this autumn with the announcement of their brand new show 'Happy Hour'.

Georgia May Foote will play the role of Holly Golightly in the UK and Ireland Tour of Breakfast at Tiffany's which arrives at The Bristol Hippodrome from the 26 Sep - 1 Oct 2016.

Jamie Wilson is delighted to announce casting for the national tour of Curve's all new production of the hit musical comedy SISTER ACT, directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood and opening at Curve on Saturday 30 July 2016 and visiting The Bristol Hippodrome from the 19th - 24th September 2

?Full casting is confirmed for hit musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors, bringing everyone's favourite carnivorous plant to bringing everyone's favourite carnivorous plant to the Theatre Royal, Glasgow from Monday 14 until Saturday 19 November 2016 as part of a major new UK Tour.

Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Shirley Bassey, Tina Turner and Cher are analyzed, exposed, and satirically delivered by the international red headed diva, La Voix in DIVA BREAKDOWN.

Thousands of people came from far and wide to enjoy Liverpool's International Samba Festival on Saturday, July 16th.

The Stephen Joseph Theatre Company will present CONSUMING PASSIONS, written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn, featuring Rachel Caffrey, Andy Cryer, Louise Shuttleworth, Leigh Symonds, from Friday 5 August to Saturday 8 October (in rep) 2016.

 Returning to the King's Head after a sell-out run in May, Pat Cash's play is a relevant and deeply felt look at the current climate of gay relationships.

Today, Parents in Performing Arts (PIPA) announces the formation of a new consortium of leading UK theatres and arts organisations who will work together for the first time to support PIPA's campaign for equal opportunities and access for parents and carers working in the performing arts.

The first major revival in eighty years of THE ROUNDABOUT, a recently rediscovered comedy by one of Britain's most prolific playwrights JB Priestley - beloved for such classics as An Inspector Calls and Time and the Conways.

As the company's production of Measure for Measure prepares for performances in Denmark and Edinburgh, Artistic Directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod announce their production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

Supporting and presenting work by some of the best emerging theatre companies from across the UK, New Diorama - one of the capital's most dynamic, inventive and forward-thinking studio theatres - today announces its 2016/17 programme.

Wyvern Theatre has announced today that Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas will make his pantomime debut in the role of Prince Charming in this year's spectacular family pantomime, Cinderella which opens on Saturday 10 December for four weeks.

One of Manchester's most successful fringe theatre companies have announced that they will be bringing back the smash hit show Porno Chic after a sell out 2nd run at The Kings Arms, Salford as part of the Greater Manchester Fringe.

Staff from Swindon's only professional theatre company will be skydiving from 15,000 feet on Friday 26 th August to raise money for 'Prime Youth Theatre Grants' - a fund that helps to pay for some or all of a Young Person's Youth Theatre membership fees.