News

Script Frenzy begins its sixth season

27 March 2012

Script Frenzy, the annual online scheme to encourage budding writers to complete the first draft of a script in 30 days, is about to begin its sixth season.

Theatre Book Prize announces shortlist

27 March 2012

The Society for Theatre Research has announced its short list for this year's Theatre Book Prize, selected from books published in 2011.

NW productions

25 March 2012

What's on in the region this week.

Midlands productions

25 March 2012

What's on in the region.

North East Productions

25 March 2012

What's on in the North East in the week beginning 26th March, 2012.

Youngsters offered parts in Derby’s Easter panto

24 March 2012

Enchanted Entertainment is looking for children aged six and upwards to play Munchkins in their professional Easter panto of The Wizard of Oz in Derby.

Relationships examined in new Warwick season

24 March 2012

Warwick Arts Centre Coventry will be staging a new season of theatre which "delves into the human psyche and explores what makes us who we are".

Coventry’s contemporary take on Strindberg classic

24 March 2012

Award-winning RSC actors Joe Dixon and Katy Stephens will take to Coventry Belgrade's main stage in a new production of The Father.

RSC conjures up another storm in Stratford

24 March 2012

Shakespeare's shipwreck play The Tempest, the second of the trilogy in a season known as What Country Friends Is This?, opens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford this week.

Reopening date for refurbished Birmingham REP

24 March 2012

Birmingham REP has announced it will reopen in September next year after a two-and-a-half year refurbishment.

Ladykillers set to tour UK

24 March 2012

Liverpool Everyman's co-production of the hit stage adaptation The Ladykillers will embark on a 26 week tour of Ireland and the UK beginning in September, but the last chance to see the all star London cast is on April 14.

Face the music and dance

24 March 2012

A rare chance to take part in a unique contemporary dance performance is being offered by Dancing Lancaster.

Drumming up Evelyn Glennie

24 March 2012

A decade since her last performance in Liverpool, world renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie is set to return to the city's Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

Unity spring/summer brochure

24 March 2012

Unity Theatre in Liverpool has a new season brochure out covering April to July.

All aboard for Lakeland summer

24 March 2012

Booking for Keswick's Theatre by the Lake summer season opens on Monday April 2.

Hot Wired in Lancaster

24 March 2012

Wired In, a free mixed arts event, returns to The Dukes in Lancaster on Monday.

Hull Uni drama department launches podcast series

22 March 2012

Hull University's department of drama and music has launched Performance Pods, a series of podcast about performance.

NE Culture Awards Nominees

22 March 2012

The nominees for Journal Culture Awards for the North East have been announced

Doran is appointed new RSC artistic director

22 March 2012

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that its chief associate director Gregory Doran wil take over from Michael Boyd as artistic director from September.

Panto News: March 2012

21 March 2012

With Spring finally here, Simon Sladen provides us with another update of what's in store for Panto Season 2012