UK REGIONAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 997

Nearly 50 years after it was first performed in America, the original rock musical, Hair, will run at the Bridewell Theatre on Fleet Street, central London from 26 to 30 April in a brand new production.

A production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre to commemorate the centenary of Dublin's Easter Rising of 1916, Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden's epic retelling of the life story of Easter Rising leader James Connolly, The Non-Stop Connolly Show runs at the Finborough Theatre, playing Sunday an

The award-winning musical based on the blockbuster film, THE BODYGUARD, comes to the New Victoria Theatre, Woking for just two weeks from Today 29 March - Saturday 9 April, direct from the West End, and starring three-time Brit nominee and X-Factor winner, Alexandra Burke as Rachel Marron.

Gary Naylor sees a show that has plenty of great songs and feelgood family fun, but topples into schmaltz showing its 40 years in Act Two.

As a baby, Princess Aurora is cursed by the evil Carabosse: on her 16th birthday, she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die.

THE UK'S WORST SERIAL KILLERS is coming to the Swindon Arts Theatre on April 7th, 2016.

Gary Naylor sees a one-man show that is more Performance Art than theatre and finds it track to maintain concentration on lines repeated over and over and over again.

Robert Gould reviews the Simon Greiff-helmed revue of Stiles and Drewe songs, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, at Cardiff's Sherman Theatre for BWW.

With an original publication date back in 1836, Nikolai Gogol's satirical play The Government Inspector is certainly not new writing.

AMUSED MOOSE COMEDY presents the Amused Moose Laugh Off first semifinal, hosted by Rude Tube & Sky Moves Alex Zane, and headlined by awardwinning Ian Smith headlining, with aftershow music at Amused Moose Kings X.

AMUSED MOOSE COMEDY presents the Amused Moose Laugh Off 2nd semifinal, hosted by Rude Tube & Sky Moves Alex Zane, with awardwinning Marcel Lucont headlining, at Amused Moose Soho.

AMUSED MOOSE COMEDY presents the Amused Moose Laugh Off 3rd semifinal, hosted by Balls of Steel & Sky Movies' Mark Dolan, and headlined by I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! host David Morgan headlining, with aftershow music at Amused Moose Kings X.

The online rounds of the Amused Moose Laugh Off Competition 2016 are complete and our eminent industry panel have selected the lucky future stars who will compete in the live semi-finals for a place in the prestigious final on 11th May.

As Britons vote on whether to remain in Europe, BE FESTIVAL, Birmingham's festival celebrating the best of European theatre, returns to the city from 21 - 25 June.

Eight West Midlands playwrights are tackling some of the hottest issues at the heart of the EU Referendum debate in a series of short plays spread over two nights on May 3rd and May 4th at The Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Now in its 11th year, Latitude Festival once again sets the bar high for summer festivals with the largest comedy line up in the UK, offering festival goers an unrivalled opportunity to see some of the biggest names in the industry, all over the same weekend.

Gary Naylor sees a strange play that never quite decides on what it wants to be and finishes just when the drama is getting started.

Drunken Chorus return to London in March with another night of unexpected theatre, off-beat comedy and experimental dance - for pubs!!

Roll up, roll up, for the most 'magnifical', 'tremendible' and 'fantasticulous' experience in town! After successful runs in Edinburgh and around the UK, Les Enfants Terribles bring THE MARVELLOUS IMAGINARY MENAGERIE back for an exciting UK tour.

The Point is delighted to announce that Hampshire Youth Dance Company has been selected to represent the region at the U.

?Following their 2015 productions of Ghost The Musical and Sunset Boulevard, West Bromwich Operatic Society return to the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre stage this May with the Midlands amateur premiere of the musical MADE IN DAGENHAM from Tuesday 24 - Saturday 28 May.

The Olivier Award-winning English Touring Opera bring their dramatic productions of Mozart's masterpiece Don Giovanni and Gluck's rarely performed Iphigenie en Tauride to the Lyceum Theatre from Monday 4 - Tuesday 5 April as part of their biggest ever tour.

Flute Theatre in association with English Touring Theatre presents: Hamlet, who's there? Adapted by Kelly Hunter.

THE ROYAL Shakespeare Company bring A Midsummer Night's Dream to The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, next month (April).

Stage musical Witches of Eastwick was adapted from John Updike's novel of the same name thirteen years after the film was released in 1987- starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer.