Dangerous Obsession

N J Crisp

Motown the Musical

Berry Gordy

This is Shakespeare

Emma Smith

Annie

Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin

The Community Centre

Nicola Gardner

The Doctor

Robert Icke, Very Freely Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi

Moby Dick

Herman Melville, adapted by Phil John and Simon Harvey Williams

Queen of the Mist

Michael John LaChiusa

Sharon Eyal / Gai Behar Live in London: RAK MG LGD

Creator Sharon Eyal, co-creator Gai Behar, music Ori Lichtik, Koreless

Towards Zero

Agatha Christie & Gerald Verner

If I Die on Mars

Clarice Montero

The Ship Sank. Where on Deck, Did My Captain Lie?

Anne Elmholt and Nina Kunzendorf

Pink House

Madison Pollack

Manual Cinema's Frankenstein

Based on the book by Mary Shelley

amendments: A Play on Words

Matt Roberts

The Afflicted

Jake Jeppson

Passengers

Kit Redstone

Jonny & the Baptists Love Edinburgh and Hate Bastards

The Feminazis

Lily Vosper

Who Cares

Matt Woodhead

Will, or Eight Lost Years of William Shakespeare's Life

Victoria Baumgartner

Manifesting Mrs Marx

Clara Francesca

Drama championed at Warwick Arts Centre

Drama features strongly in the autumn season at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, with a festival being presented for the first time.

Viviana Durante new ENBS Director of Dance

English National Ballet School has appointed of Italian-born Viviana Durante as its new Director of Dance for the 2019/2020 academic year.

Bourne's Romeo and Juliet gets cinema release

Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet for New Adventures, filmed live at Sadler's Wells in London, is to be screened in cinemas nationwide from 22 October 2019.

Rufus Hound cast in RSC’s The Boy in the Dress

Rufus Hound, Irvine Iqbal, Natasha Lewis and Forbes Masson are the first cast members announced for The Boy in the Dress, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new musical which opens in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford in November 2019.

Richie “perfect fit” to play Archie Rice in The Entertainer

Shane Richie is the “perfect fit” to play the role of Archie Rice in The Entertainer, according to director Sean O’Connor.

Immerse yourself in residential care

A new theatrical immersive experience that explores the future of care for older people comes to Stockton in October.

The Stars Look Down revived

NTC is to revive its production of The Stars Look Down, based on the novel by A J Cronin.

World première in Birmingham Royal Ballet autumn season

Birmingham Royal Ballet’s autumn 2019 season will feature a balance of classical and contemporary ballet including a world première and a partnership with Ballet Black.

A gig? In your mother’s living room?

In their second show, Bonnie and the Bonnettes celebrate that tribe of women who have shown us the way.

NW Productions

Round-up low regional productions opening week beginning Sunday August 18.

What's on in the Midlands

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 19 August.

What's on in the North East

Professional theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 19 August 2019.

Touring News – July 2019

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month including Scottish Youth Theatre's political piece about Brexit, technology and capitalism Act Of Repair, and Emma Rice's adaptation of Mallory Towers for her company Wise Children.

More questions than answers: thoughts on censorship

Triggered by the attention given last year to half a century of The Theatres Act, National News Editor and London Reviewer Sandra Giorgetti offers a think piece on the many faces of censorship.

Reading of Richard Bean's The Hypocrite in honour of late Musical Director

A special one-off 'book in hand' performance of Richard Bean's smash hit The Hypocrite was held at Hull Truck last Sunday, in honour of its late Musical Director, Paul Frankish, who died in March.

National Theatre Summer Press Conference 2019

The National Theatre's Joint Chief Executives Rufus Norris and Lisa Berger have announced their plans into early 2020.

Touring News – June 2019

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month including Alexis Gregory's LGBTQ solo play Riot Act which pays the 50th anniversary weekend of the Stonewall riots and a new production of musical Grease, the first in 25 years.

Touring News – May 2019

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month including the inaugural tour of Wildcard with Electrolyte, The Tiger Lillies' 30th anniversary tour with Devil’s Fairground and Jonny Cotsen's Louder Is Not Always Clearer about how he negotiates life as a deaf man in a hearing world.