Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Oldham Coliseum Theatre at Oldham Coliseum Theatre
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While You Wait
BTG has partnered with Fuel Theatre on a series of podcasts called While You Wait.
- Waiting... Now by Paul Clark in collaboration with Bill Brewer
- Waiting... to be born by Lewis Gibson in collaboration with Debra Bick and Sarah Beake
- Waiting... in a hairdressers by Malika Booker in collaboration with Emily Butterworth
- Waiting... to come home by Caroline Horton in collaboration with Jennifer Wild
- Waiting... for a Cancer Diagnosis by Brian Lobel, in collaboration with Iain Perdue
- Waiting... are we? By The Company in collaboration with Jonathan Reades and Raphael Woolf
- Waiting... for a loved one to die by Rachel Mars in collaboration with Fliss Murtagh
- Waiting... for the inevitable by Toby Jones in collaboration with Peter Giese
Panto 2013
News, reviews, interviews and features from this year's panto season.
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Hairspray
Curve at Curve Theatre, Leicester
Fallen Angels
Bill Kenwright at Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford
Birdsong
The Original Theatre Company and Birdsong Productions Ltd at Gala Theatre, Durham
Russian Ballet Icons Gala: The Story of Russian Ballet
Ensemble Productions at London Coliseum
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I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep than Some Other Arsehole
Gate Theatre, Notting Hill
The Trojan Women
Vervain Theatre at Theatro Technis
Visitors
Up in Arms at Arcola Theatre
Medea
Theatre Lab Company at Riverside Studios
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Urinetown the Musical
St James Theatre
Contractions
Iain Goosey / Chapter Arts Centre at Chapter, Cardiff
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 – 1915
Bush Theatre
The Perfect Murder
Derby Theatre at Derby Theatre
Wonderful Tennessee
Sheffield Theatres in collaboration with English Touring Theatre and Rose Theatre Kinston at Sheffield Lyceum
Do I Hear a Waltz?
Charles Court Opera at Park Theatre
What the Thunder Said
Theatre Centre at Redbridge Drama Centre
She's on Toast
Cloud Nine at The Low Lights, North Shields
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Good People
Hampstead Theatre
How To Be Immortal
Penny Dreadful Theatre at Soho Theatre
Eat Pray Laugh! Barry Humphries' Farewell Tour
Opera House, Manchester
Philip's Top 5
Every week London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.
- Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
- Once (Phoenix Theatre, London)
- King Lear (Olivier Theatre (National Theatre))
- Ghosts (Almeida Theatre, London (subsequently Trafalgar Studios 1))
- The Weir (Wyndham's Theatre)
The Alternative Top 5
- The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre, London)
- Superior Donuts (Southwark Playhouse)
- Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Young Vic Maria Studio)
- Variation on a Theme (Finborough Theatre)
- Versailles (Donmar Warehouse)
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Clwyd Theatr Cymru's Under Milk Wood on national tour
Further details of the English tour of Dylan Thomas's play during April to July.
Union Theatre stages first London revival of Lloyd Webber's The Beautiful Game
As one Lloyd Webber show closes another opens…
Apollo Theatre re–opens with award–winning Let The Right One In
National Theatre of Scotland stages first production in the now–refurbished venue after the roof collapse that left 80 people injured.
Royal Court hosts plays by children prior to schools tour
Primetime sees children's plays presented to primary schools with introductory playwriting workshops
Manchester Theatre Awards ceremony
More than 20 Manchester Theatre Awards for 2013 were presented to the winners among 100 nominees.
Priscilla Presley for Manchester panto
Priscilla Presley will be starring in this year’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Opera House in Manchester.
Refugee Boy tour includes Waterside centre
West Yorkshire Playhouse is touring Benjamin Zephaniah’s powerful novel, Refugee Boy.
World War One stories for Lancaster
The Dukes in Lancaster stages a new production: Your Country Needs You! (But I don’t need my country…).
Stravinsky double bill for Blackpool Grand
Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre roars into Blackpool’s Grand Theatre with provocative new dance pieces The Rite of Spring and Petrushka.
Stories from the Life of Brian please
Oldham-based Hard Graft theatre is looking for stories and photographs to tell the Life of Brian Clough.
Comic feast bound for the region
Glass-Eye Theatre brings its touring production of The City and Iris to the region.
Dancing by the lake in Keswick
Theatre by the Lake’s spring production in Keswick is Dancing at Lughnasa.
Much Ado destined for Royal Exchange
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre.
Unicorn Theatre Summer Season
Sara Kestelman in The Summer Book leads a varied programme for children.
Kindertransport for Manchester
Kindertransport comes to the Opera House, Manchester.
Cameras roll on new co-production play
The Dukes in Lancaster and Oldham Coliseum are joining forces this spring to present a new play with songs.
Another Short Ballet for Small People
Northern Ballet make a welcome return to The Dukes in Lancaster.
Butterfly comedy-drama for Liverpool
Butterfly in Shades of Blue comes to The Lantern Theatre, Liverpool.
Peter Pan skates into Manchester
The Russian Ice Stars visit the Palace Theatre Manchester later this month.
NW Productions
Round-up opf regional productions opening week beginning Sunday March 9.
Young Theatre Makers get funding
Young Theatre Makers will see the participants of venues' Creative Learning schemes working on new productions as writers, devisors, actors and producers.
Midlands productions
Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 10 March.
What's on in the North East
Theatre productions in the North East for the week beginning Monday, 10th March 2014.
Ambassador Theatre Group celebrates Earth Hour 2014
Helping to build a brighter future by supporting WWFs Earth Hour.
Theatre Seeks Community Actors
The Customs House in South Shields is looking for actors for its annual community play.
Chichester Festival Theatre announces 2014 Season
Transformed theatre has some theatrical treats to look forward to.
Wolverhampton Grand gets out top hat for new shows
Triple Olivier Award-winning dance musical Top Hat is to visit Wolverhampton Grand for two weeks as part of a national tour.
Peter Brook’s new play to get Coventry première
Coventry’s Warwick Arts Centre is to host the UK première of Peter Brook’s The Valley of Astonishment which it is co-producing with Theatre des Bouffes du Nord.
Big summer productions in Newcastle-under-Lyme
A wartime musical drama, an American classic and the return of a Jules Verne adaptation are among the summer highlights at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Wolverhampton youngsters prepare Arena shows
Wolverhampton’s Arena Theatre has raised more than £30,000 to develop work with the town’s children and young people.
Culture clashes in new Birmingham family play
The cast has been announced for Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s new play Khandan (Family) which will play at Birmingham REP and London’s Royal Court.
New Birmingham drama shows passion for Jesus
A new promenade play reimagining the life and death of Jesus Christ is to be staged in Birmingham.
Birmingham contest picks all-women play winners
Three plays have won a competition and will be presented at Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre in April.
New festival turns Leicester’s Curve inside out
Leicester’s Curve has announced the full programme for its inaugural arts festival Inside Out.
Birmingham lads’ experience of war turned into play
Birmingham Hippodrome is to stage the première of The Chocolate Soldiers inspired by the experiences of young soldiers from Birmingham during World War I.
Derby Theatre gets to pulse of community play
Derby Theatre is to hold open auditions cast and production-related roles for its 2014 Derby People’s Theatre production, the comedy drama Pulse.
New chair of trustees for Corby venue
Corby Cube Theatre Trust, the charity which runs Northamptonshire's The Core at Corby Cube, has appointed Morag Ballantyne as its new chair of trustees.
First-class: Northampton venue signs up Oxford don
Oxford professor Ros Ballaster is to work with Northampton’s Royal and Derngate over the next 12 months as a knowledge exchange fellow.
Fireworks in Stratford on Shakespeare’s birthday
The RSC will celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday this year with a fireworks display and a range of free theatre activities.
Catch-22 at Northern Stage and on Tour
Newcastle's Northern Stage announces details of Catch-22, its spring production and tour.
UK Mummy tour postponed but Coventry date goes on
Producers of a new stage comedy The Mummy are deferring a planned UK tour but will still open as planned at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre.
London transfer for two RSC Mantel adaptations
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are to transfer to the Aldwych Theatre in London.
Northern Ballet inaugural visit to the ROH Linbury Studio
Northern Ballet, a company of 40 dancers, will make its first visit to the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio Theatre with a Mixed Programme of ballets by Hans van Manen, Lar Lubovitch and Kenneth Tindall.
Michael Blakemore wins Sheridan Morley Prize with Stage Blood
The winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize was announced on 5 March.