News

Soccer legends sign up for Shankly tribute

5 May 2013

Four Liverpool soccer legends will visit St Helens Theatre Royal later this month to celebrate the 100th anniversary year of Bill Shankly’s birth.

A right royal tribute in Manchester

5 May 2013

Bohemian Rhapsody The Hits of Queen comes to Manchester Opera House.

Manchester choir takes to the air at Lowry

5 May 2013

Whalley Range's Open Voice community choir joins former Liverpool Philharmonic Composer in Residence Graham Fitkin to score an aerial theatre performance.

NW Productions

5 May 2013

Round-up of regional productions opening week beginning Sunday May 5.

Covent Garden May Fayre and Puppet Festival

5 May 2013

Celebrate Mr Punch's 351st birthday in Covent Garden on Sunday 12 May.

Midlands productions

5 May 2013

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 6 May.

What's on in the North East

5 May 2013

Theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 6th May, 2013

Kids’ stuff as RSC nursery celebrates 50th birthday

4 May 2013

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s nursery—one of the few nurseries run by a theatre company in the UK—is celebrating its 50th birthday.

Northampton's Shakespeare comedies masterclass

4 May 2013

Helen Barnett, assistant director of Northampton Royal and Derngate’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is to lead a masterclass in Shakespeare’s comedies on Wednesday 15 May.

Birmingham REP prepares to move back home

4 May 2013

Birmingham REP’s two-and-a-half-year refurbishment has reached a major milestone, with contractors handing back control of the building to the theatre.

Actor Ian Kelly wins the Theatre Book Prize

2 May 2013

The winner of the Theatre Book Prize was announced on Thursday 2 May at a London Palladium reception.

Matilda ranks second in Tony nominations

2 May 2013

RSC musical production Matilda The Musical gets 12 Tony nominations for its Broadway transfer, second only to Kinky Boots, in a great week of awards for subsidised UK theatre.

Reduced prices for young theatregoers at Chichester

2 May 2013

Tickets for just £8.50 for 18- to 25-year-olds for The Pajama Game.

Olivier Nominations for Chichester Festival Theatre

1 May 2013

A total of 13 Olivier Award 2013 nominations for Chichester Festival Theatre.

Curious Incident equals Matilda's Olivier record

29 April 2013

At the Olivier Awards, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time equalled the record set by Matilda the Musical last year of seven wins.

Octagon to stage 10-production season

28 April 2013

The Octagon in Bolton will be staging 10 home-produced productions—the first time in its history.

Miller, Sondheim, Wood and Stephens in Exchange season

28 April 2013

A co-production of a landmark play by Arthur Miller and a major revival of a Stephen Sondheim classic are among highlights of the newly-announced Manchester Royal Exchange Season.

Home from Holmes for Manchester

28 April 2013

An original theatrical thriller arrives at the Opera House in Manchester in June.

Liverpool take on West Side Story music

28 April 2013

Liverpool’s Capstone Theatre hosts a unique performance of songs from West Side Story.

New-look Bouncers for St Helens' venue

28 April 2013

St Helens Theatre Royal stages a revived version of Bouncers in June.