News

Actors wanted for company’s Buxton Fringe debut

8 April 2012

Incontinence Theatre Company will this week hold open auditions for its debut production Violet's Silent Scream which will be performed at Buxton Festival Fringe.

Two Midlands theatres to have a ball with Cinderella

8 April 2012

Stoke's best-known entertainer Jonathan Wilkes will return to the Regent Theatre this Christmas in Cinderella.

Nottingham youth theatre takes on Büchner challenge

8 April 2012

A new adaptation of Büchner’s Woyzeck with a 19-strong cast will be performed by Nottingham Playhouse Youth Theatre.

Gwen to star in Morpurgo play in Leicester and Derby

8 April 2012

Derby-born actress Gwen Taylor takes the role of Millie in Michael Morpurgo’s The Butterfly Lion which opens in Leicester this week and will later transfer to Derby Theatre.

Show that started in Northampton opens on Broadway

8 April 2012

A production that started life on Northampton’s Royal stage two years ago has opened on Broadway.

What's on in the North East

8 April 2012

Theatre productions in the North East for the week beginning Sunday 8th April

NW productions

8 April 2012

Theatre productions in the North West for the week beginning April 8.

Carwardine-Palmer moves from Salisbury to NTW

7 April 2012

Michelle Cawardine-Palmer has announced that she is to step down as executive director of Salisbury Playhouse to take up the position of director of administration and development for National Theatre Wales.

National Theatre Festival exhibition

7 April 2012

The National Theatre will host an exhibition of images of various kinds of festival in association with Corbis.

New Reading company creates 4 new plays in 4 days

7 April 2012

Reading's new professional theatre company Reading Between the Lines will launch with an event that creates four new plays in four days as a "relay".

All fired up for a return tour

7 April 2012

Manchester-based Monkeywood Theatre's latest production, Once in a House on Fire, returns to The Lowry in June.

Panto Jack's a rock 'n' roller

7 April 2012

It's time to ‘twist and sprout' as Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse announce their family favourite.

Teenager's play premiere

7 April 2012

A Lancaster sixth former has helped write a play about last summer's riots.

Dancing in the Dust

7 April 2012

2Faced Dance presents In The Dust at the Rose Theatre of Edge Hill University, near Ormskirk.

The Theatres Trust unveils its specialist theatre buildings reference library

5 April 2012

An improved resource for theatre buffs and researchers in the heart of Theatreland.

New research on influence of subsidised theatre on commercial sector

4 April 2012

Creative & Cultural Skills, Arts Council England and Nesta have jointly launched a new independent survey to research the influence of the subsidised theatre on commercial theatre.

RSC launches World Shakespeare Festival on Shakespeare's "birthday"

3 April 2012

The Royal Shakespeare Company will launch its World Shakespeare Festival during the annual Shakespeare's Birthday celebrations in Stratford-upon-Avon on 21 and 22 April.

Hawth, Crawley new season

1 April 2012

The May to July season at The Hawth in Crawley.

Yvonne Arnaud new season

1 April 2012

March to December at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford.

What's coming up at the New Victoria, Woking

1 April 2012

Upcoming events at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking.