Husband and wife team tour in Antony and Cleopatra

Another Way Theatre's production of Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare features a husband and wife team in the title roles: Chris and Nicky Chambers.

It will tour to:

• Minack Theatre, Cornwall, 3 to 7 June
• Queen's Park, Caterham Festival 18 to 22 june
• Christchurch, Purley Festival 24 to 28 June

Slava's Snowshow new UK tour

Russian clown Slava Polunin's acclaimed family show Slava's Snow Show returns to the UK with a national tour:

• The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, 1 to 5 October
• The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, 8 to 12 October
• His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen, 16 to 20 October
• Bradford Alhambra Theatre, 23 to 27 October
• Bristol Hippodrome, 30 October to 3 November
• Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 6 to 10 November
• Norwich Theatre Royal, 13 to 16 November
• Sheffield Lyceum Theatre, 20 to 24 November
• Royal Festival Hall, London, 17 December to 5 January 2014

Complicite's first show for young people tours UK

Complicite will tour its first show aimed at young people and their families with an adaptation of the Lion Boy novels by Zizou Corder, adapted by Marcelo Dos Santos and directed by Annabel Arden.

• Bristol Old Vic, 29 May to 1 June
• Liverpool Playhouse, 4 to 8 June
• Oxford Playhouse, 11 to 15 June
• Warwick Arts Centre, 18 to 20 June
• West Yorkshire Playhouse, 25 to 29 June
• Wales Millennium Centre, 3 to 6 June
• The Unicorn, London, 9 to 21 June

NTS revives Harrower's Calum's Road for Scottish tour

Communicado Theatre Company and the National Theatre of Scotland are to tour David Harrower's adaption of Calum's Road from the book by Roger Hutchinson, which originally toured Scotland in 2011.

The play is directed by Gerry Mulgrew, with Alasdair Macrae, Ian Macrae, Ceit Kearney and Angela Hardie returning to recreate their original roles joined by Lewis Howden and Ben Winger.

The tour will visit:

• The Gaiety Theatre, Ayr, 17 to 18 May
• Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, 22 May
• The Theatre Royal, Dumfries, 25 May
• Perth Theatre, 28 to 29 May
• The Brunton, Musselburgh, 31 May to 1 June
• Webster Memorial Theatre, Arbroath, 4 June
• Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 6 to 8 June
• Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy, 11 to 12 June
• Ryan Centre Theatre, Stranraer, 15 June
• Eden Court, Inverness, 18 to 19 June
• Macphail Centre, Ullapool, 21 June
• Seall @ Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle of Skye, 25 June
• Macrobert, Stirling, 28 June

Varmints is Travelling Light on UK tour

Travelling Light Theatre Company is touring a new piece of dance theatre, Varmints, for children and families based on the book of the same name by Helen Ward and Marc Craste. It is directed by Sally Cookson, choreographed by B-Boy Wilkie Branson and performed by Mariana Camiloti, Femi M Oyewole, Letitia Simpson and Wilkie Branson.

It will tour to:

• Bristol Old Vic, 10 to 11 May
• Sadler's Wells, 17 to 18 May
• The Old Market at Brighton Festival, 21 to 22 May
• Epic Studios at Norfold and Norwich Festival, 4 to 24 May
• Northcott Theatre, Essex, 28 May
• Gulbenkian Theatre, 1 June
• Warwick Arts Centre, 4 to 5 June
• Leicester Curve Theatre at Sparks Festival, 7 June
• Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth, 9 June
• Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, 14 June
• Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 16 June
• Stratford Circus, East London, 21 to 22 June

Miss Nightingale takes burlesque on tour

Matthew Bugg's musical Miss Nightingale, which previously toured in a shorter versionin 2011, is to embark on a UK tour with its story of sex, scandal and showbiz in war-torn 1940s London starring burlesque artist Amber Topaz with Ilan Goodman, Tomm Coles, Adam Langstaff and Alex Tomkins.

• New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, 2 to 11 May
• Key Theatre, Peterborough, 13 to 18 May
• Royal Court, Liverpool, 22 May
• Theatre Royal, Nottingham, 23 to 25 May
• Nuffield, Southampton, 28 May to 1 June
• Theatre Royal, Wakefield, 3 to 5 June
• Worthing Theatres, 6 to 8 June
• The Lowry, Salford, 19 to 22 June
• Everyman, Cheltenham, 24 to 29 June
• Leicester Square Theatre, London, 2 to 7 July
• Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, 9 to 13 July
• Victoria Theatre, Halifax, 15 to 17 July
• Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield, 18 to 19 July
• Theatre Royal, Windsor, 22 to 27 July

Northern Stage's Blue Remembered Hills

Northern Stage is to tour its production of Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills after its newcastle run finishes.  It will tour to:

• Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse (14-18 May)
• Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford (21 - 25 May)
• Watford Palace Theatre (29 May - 1 June)
• Oxford Playhouse (4 - 8 June)
• Lighthouse, Poole (11 - 15 June)
• Richmond Theatre (18 - 22 June)
• Derby Theatre (25 - 29 June)

The Unfolding Sky: Turner in the North

The Unfolding Sky: Turner in the North, a site specific dance piece by Dora Frankel Dance based on sketches and paintings by JMW Turner made during his 1797 walking tour of Northumberland and Durham, will tour to the locations which inspired him during June:

• Saturday June 1st
  6 pm castle tour, 7pm performance
  Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland
• Tuesday June 4^th 6.30pm
  'Meet the artists', St Chads Church, Rawling Road, Gateshead
• Saturday June 8^th 7pm
  Lindisfarne Priory, Holy Island
•  Sunday June 9^th 12 – 2.00pm
  'Pop up' performance as part of North Tyneside Art studio exhibition Tynemouth Station Market
•  Thursday June 13^th 7pm
  Tynemouth Priory
•  Friday June 14^th 7pm
  The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
• Saturday June 15^th 7pm
  Warkworth Castle, Northumberland
•  Thursday June 20^th 7.30pm
  Dance City, Newcastle upon Tyne
•  Saturday June 22^nd 7pm
  (Date tbc)
  Bedes World, Jarrow
• Saturday June 29^th
  'Pop up' performances at 2pm, 3pm and 3.30pm as part of the grand Festival of the North East finale
  Lindisfarne Priory, Holy Island 

ETT tours Globe's In Extremis in 2014

English Touring Theatre will tour the Shakespeare's Globe production of In Extremis by Howard Brenton to eight large-scale receiving theatres in Spring 2014, one of three productions it will tour between 2014 and 2016 to theatres participating in its National Touring Group: Blackpool Grand, Darlington Civic Theatre, Hall for Cornwall, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Theatre Royal Brighton, Marlowe Theatre Canterbury, Malvern Theatres and the Wolverhampton Grand.

Globe's first visit to Asia with all-female Shrew

Shakespeare's Globe will tour to Asia for the first time with its all-female The Taming of the Shrew directed by Joe Murphy, artistic director of new writing company Nabokov, and designed by Hannah Clark.

It will visit:

• City Museum Gardens, Portsmouth, 6 – 8 June
• Shakespeare's Globe, 10 – 14 June
• Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, 16 – 17 June
• Shakespeare’s Globe, 19 – 21 June
• Malta Festival, 2 – 4 July
• Bodleian Library, Oxford, 9 – 21 July
• Art Carnuntum, Austria, 24 – 25 July
• Bungay Castle, Suffolk, 30 July – 1 August
• Pavillion Gardens, Buxton, 3 – 4 August
• Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland, 9 – 18 August
• St Donat’s Arts Centre, Wales, 26 August
• The Georgian Theatre, Yorkshire, 29 August – 1 September
• Bury St Edmunds, 4 – 6 September
• Minack Theatre, Penzance, 9 – 13 September
• Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong, 25 – 29 September
• Fort Canning Park, Singapore, 3 – 13 September

Globe tour of Lear starring Joseph Marcell

Joseph Marcell, best-known as Geoffrey in the hit US sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, will play the title role in King Lear for Shakespeare's Globe in a production directed by Bill Buckhurst that will be performed at sixteen venues in the UK and Europe, including the Elizabethan Parham House, Kronborg Castle in Denmark and Hagia Irene in Istanbul.

Alongside Marcell, Rawiri Paratene will play Gloucester, Oliver Boot will be Edmund and King of France, Bethan Cullinane will be Cordelia and Fool, Ruth Everett will be Goneril and Curan, Shanaya Rafaat will be Regan, Matthew Romain will be Edgar and Duke of Cornwall and Dickon Tyrrell will be Earl of Kent.

The tour will visit:

• Theatre Royal, Margate, 18 – 20 April
• Istanbul, Turkey, 25 – 26 April
• Adana, Turkey, 28 – 29 April
• St George’s, Bristol, 4 – 5 May
• Hodsock Priory, Worksop, 9 – 10 May
• Shakespeare’s Globe, 13 – 18 May
• Brighton Festival, 23 – 25 May
• Parham House, West Sussex, 28 – 29 May
• Connaught Theatre, Worthing, 31 May – 1 June
• Salisbury Festival, 5 – 8 June
• Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria, 21 – 22 June
• Neuss, Germany, 25 – 26 June
• Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 29 – 30 June
• The Crichton, Dumfries, 3 – 4 July
• Hedingham Castle, Essex, 6 – 7 July
• Kronborg castle, Denmark, 1 – 3 August

Girl with Iron Claws begins new tour

The Wrong Crowd's debut show, The Girl with the Iron Claws, begins a new tour at the Little Angel Theatre on 25 April, calling at:

• Little Angel Theatre, London 23 to 25 April
• Bedford Theatre 30 April
• West End Centre, Aldershot 2 May
• The Point, Eastleigh 3 May
• Groundlings, Portsmouth 4 May
• Discovery Centre, Winchester 5 May
• The Playhouse, Norwich 8 May
• Norden Farm, Maidenhead 9 May
• Quay Arts, Isle of Wight 10 May
• The Phoenix Theatre, Bordon 11 May
• Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells 12 May
• South Street, Reading 14 May
• Arts Centre, New Greenham 15 May
• St George’s Theatre, Great Yarmouth 17 May
• Playhouse, Harlow 19 May
• Corn Hall Theatre, Diss 23 May
• The Seagull, Lowestoft 24 May
• Arts Centre, King's Lynn 25 May
• Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, Manchester 28 May
• Howard Assembly Room, Leeds 29 May
• mac, Birmingham 30 May
• Pound Arts, Corsham 1 June
• Pulse Festival at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich 2 June
• St Magnus International Festival, Orkney 22 to 23 June
• Arcola Theatre, London 8 to 13 July

Hall's Pitman Painters new UK tour

Lee Hall's The Pitman Painters about a group of Ashington miners in 1934 who hire a professor to teach an art appreciation class will embark on another UK tour from Bill Kenwright in association with the National Theatre and Newcastle's Live Theatre:

• Theatre Royal, Windsor, 13 – 16 March
• Clwyd Theatre, Mold, 25 – 30 March
• Festival Theatre, Malvern, 25 – 30 March
• Palace Theatre, Southend, 2 – 6 April
• Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield, 9 – 13 April
• Alhambra, Bradford, 15 – 20 April
• Cambridge Arts Theatre, 22 – 27 April
• Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, 29 April – 4 May
• Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, 7 – 11 May
• Kings Theatre, Edinburgh, 13 – 18 May
• Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 20 – 25 May
• Derby Theatre, 28 May – 1 June
• Leicester Curve, 10 – 15 June
• Swan Theatre, High Wycombe, 17 – 22 June
• Theatre Royal, Brighton, 24 – 29 June
• Newcastle Theatre Royal, 1 – 5 July
• Civic Theatre, Darlington, 8 – 13 July
• Harrogate Theatre, 15 – 20 July
• Hall for Cornwall, Truro, 22 – 27 July
• Oxford Playhouse, 29 July – 3 August
• Richmond Theatre, 5 – 10 August
• Grand Theatre, Swansea, 19 – 24 August

Old Vic Noises Off tour

The acclaimed Old Vic production of Michael Frayn's comedy Noises Off directed by Lindsay Posner will tour to:

• Theatre Royal Bath 27 March – 6 April
• Cambridge Arts Theatre 8 April – 13 April
• Eastbourne Congress Theatre 16 April – 20 April
• Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne 22 April – 27 April
• Theatre Royal, Nottingham 29 April – 4 May
• His Majesty’s Theatre Aberdeen 6 May – 11 May
• Sheffield Lyceum 13 May – 18 May
• Theatre Royal Norwich 20 May – 25 May
• King’s Theatre, Edinburgh 4 June – 8 June
• The Lowry, Salford 17 June – 22 June
• Belfast Grand Opera House 1 July – 6 July
• Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin 8 July – 13 July
• The Grand Theatre & Opera House, Leeds 23 July – 27 July

Blue Remembered Hills

Northern Stage’s production of Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills, which runs at the Newcastle venue from 19th April to 11th May, will tour to:

• Liverpool Playhouse (14 – 18 May)
• Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford (21 – 25 May)
• Watford Palace Theatre (29 May – 1 June)
• Oxford Playhouse (4 -8 June)
• Lighthouse Poole (11 – 15 June)
• Richmond Theatre (18 – 22 June)
• Derby Theatre (25 – 29 June)

New Dirty Dancing tour dates in 2014

Dirty Dancing, based on the 1987 hit film, has announced new tour dates for 2014:

• Bristol Hippodrome, 15 March – 5 April
• Sheffield Lyceum, 15 April – 3 May
• Theatre Royal, Newcastle, 6 – 31 May
• Mayflower, Southampton, 10 – 28 June
• Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin, 8 – 26 July
• Grand Opera House, Belfast, 29 July – 16 August
• King’s Theatre, Glasgow, 26 August – 20 September
• Milton Keynes Theatre, 21 October – 8 November
• New Theatre, Oxford, 9 December 2014 – 3 January 2015

The current 2013 tour continues to:

• Theatre Royal, Nottingham, 12 February – 2 March 
• Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, 12 – 30 March
• Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, 2 – 20 April
• New Victoria Theatre, Woking, 30 April – 18 May
• Palace Theatre, Manchester, 21 May – 15 June

For more information and tickets, see www.dirtydancingontour.com.

Faulks's Birdsong from Original Theatre Company

Original Theatre Company will tour an adaptation of the novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and directed by Alastair Whatley, from January to August.

The cast will be led by Sarah Jayne Dunn and Jonathan Smith, also featuring Arthur Bostrom, Charlie G Hawkins, Joshua Higgott, Polly Hughes, Malcolm James, Liam McCormick, Poppy Roe, Jonathan Smith, Emily Stride, Tim Treloar and Tim Van Eyken.

The production will visit:

• The Haymarket, Basingstoke 22 to 26 January
• Belgrade Theatre, Coventry 29 January to 2 February
• Grand Theatre, Blackpool 5 to 9 February
• Wycombe Swan Theatre, High Wycombe 12 to 16 February
• New Theatre, Cardiff 19 to 23 February
• Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford 25 February to 2 March
• Festival Theatre, Malvern 4 to 9 March
• Palace Theatre, Southend 12 to 16 March
• Theatre Royal, Plymouth 18 to 23 March
• New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich 25 to 30 March
• Theatre Royal, Bath 2 to 6 April
• King's Theatre, Glasgow 8 to 13 April
• Derby Theatre 15 to 20 April
• South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell 22 to 23 April
• The Hawth, Crawley 24 to 27 April
• Hall for Cornwall 7 to 11 May
• Theatre Royal, Northampton 13 to 18 May
• New Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury 3 to 8 June
• Theatre Royal, Nottingham 17 to 22 June
• Theatre Royal, Norwich 8 to 13 July
• Milton Keynes Theatre 22 to 27 July
• Theatre Royal, Brighton 29 July to 3 August

War Horse first UK tour

The National Theatre's acclaimed production of War Horse, adapted from the Michael Morpurgo children's book by Nick Stafford and directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris with puppetry by Handspring, will tour the UK and Ireland for the first time from September 2013 to July 2014, calling at:

• Theatre Royal, Plymouth 27 September to 12 October
• Birmingham Hippodrome 17 October to 9 November
• The Lowry, Salford 20 November to 18 January
• Festival Theatre, Edinburgh 22 January to 15 February
• The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton 19 February to 15 March
• Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin 26 March to 26 April
• Sunderland Empire 30 April to 17 May
• Alhambra Theatre, Bradford 26 May to 14 June
• Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff 18 June to 19 July