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NE actor is an "Inspirational Educator"

NE actor Jamie Brown is one of this year’s Worshipful Company of Educators' Inspirational Educator Award winners

Elysium will look back in anger

Durham’s Elysium Theatre Company is to present Look Back in Anger in May

Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards 2020

The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards celebrated their 20th anniversary this year on 19 February 2020 at the Barbican in London.

NW Productions

Round-up of regional productions opening week beginning Sunday February 23.

What's on in the Midlands

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 24 February.

What's on in the North East

Professional theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 24 February, 2020

Dragons and Mythical Beasts in Darlington and Billingham

A new interactive children’s theatre show is to visit Darlington Hippodrome and Billingham Forum later this year.

Like mother, like daughter!

Stage and screen actress Geraldine Somerville made her Manchester Royal Exchange debut as Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie in 1989 and returns there to become Amanda Wingfield.

Liverpool première for Dim Lit Star

Life, love and friendship come together in a new play receiving its première at the Hope Street Theatre in Liverpool.

Nottingham theatre goes behind Gone With the Wind

Ron Hutchinson, writer of the play Moonlight and Magnolias which is to run at Nottingham Playhouse, hopes that lifting the curtain on the backstage shenanigans behind Gone With the Wind will not spoil audiences’ appreciation of the film.

Studio-sized host of work

Manchester Royal Exchange Studio hosts an array of pieces of work over coming weeks.

Unanima wins In Good Company £10,000 funding fee

Midlands development programme In Good Company has announced its biggest rise in commissioning funding, with a £10,000 fee going to Mansfield-based Unanima Theatre for its show State of Independence.

Chichester announces Festival 2020 season

Chichester Festival Theatre's 2020 Festival will comprise five world premières—including first plays by Steven Moffat and Kate Mosse and new work by Suhayla El-Bushra and Christopher Shinn—and revivals of modern dramas.

Three RSC productions “explore relationship with Europe”

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to present in Stratford three productions that are part of Projekt Europa “exploring, celebrating and interrogating our relationship with Europe”.

Jewish Museum's city festival

Manchester Jewish Museum stages its first-ever Festival of Belonging.

Navy Lark docks in Liverpool

The first stage version of classic BBC radio comedy The Navy Lark sails into Liverpool.

At HOME with Little Wimmin

Figs in Wigs is back at HOME in Manchester with Little Wimmin.

Absurd nights out in Oldham

London Classic Theatre returns to Oldham with Alan Ayckbourn’s comic play Absurd Person Singular.

TV actress in Mersey drama

Stockport’s Lucy Dixon swaps the TV screen for live theatre in By The Waters Of Liverpool.

Boost for Northampton’s cultural vision

Arts Council England has awarded Northampton £20,000 to create a cultural board to develop an “ambitious” vision for the town.