News

Cooke announces his penultimate season at Royal Court

21 June 2012

Artistic director Dominic Cooke has announced the autumn season at the Royal Court in London, his penultimate season before leaving the post, which includes new work from established writers and second plays from more recent Court writers.

National Theatre of Scotland at Edinburgh Fringe

21 June 2012

The National Theatre of Scotland will present two productions at the newly-refurbished Assembly Rooms on George Street as part of the Edinburgh Fringe.

Honer will step down from Manchester Library Theatre

18 June 2012

Chris Honer has announced that he will step down as artistic director of Manchester's Library Theatre Company in 2014.

Old Vic autumn and winter season

17 June 2012

Sheridan Smith will take on one of Ibsen's heroines and Trevor Nunn returns to the American musical in the autumn and winter season at the Old Vic.

Songs from new In-Between musical to be performed at West End Live

17 June 2012

Songs from new musical The In-Between will be performed at West End Live in Trafalgar Square.

Michael Grandage launches new company and new West End season

17 June 2012

Former Donmar Warehouse artistic director Michael Grandage has announced a new all-star West End season at The Noël Coward Theatre, London.

NW Productions

17 June 2012

Round-up of regional productions week beginning Sunday June 17.

Midlands productions

17 June 2012

What's on in the region this week.

What's on in the North East

17 June 2012

Theatre productions in the North East for the week beginning Monday 18th June, 2012.

Kids Week sells more than 42,000 tickets in 24 hours

16 June 2012

The Society of London Theatre's Kids Week, this year celebrating its 15th birthday, sold a record 42,232 tickets in the first 24 hours that they went on sale this week.

Christmas at Sadler's Wells

16 June 2012

Sadler's Wells has announced its programme of productions for Christmas 2012.

Emerick hooks up with Buxton panto

16 June 2012

Louis Emerick will play Captain Hook and Glen Davies his sidekick Smee in Peter Pan, the panto at Buxton Opera House this Christmas.

Gwen speeds back to Derby in Driving Miss Daisy

16 June 2012

Derby-born actress Gwen Taylor, who last month made her first appearance on the Derby Theatre stage for 14 years in Michael Morpurgo’s The Butterfly Lion, has wasted no time in booking her return.

Leicester roadshow for anyone who cares about theatre

16 June 2012

A free, two-day event which “could reshape the theatre landscape” is being held this week at Curve, Leicester.

The Queen Honours Live People

16 June 2012

Two people associated with Newcastle's Live Theatre have been honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours List

Stake your place in Pride pageant

14 June 2012

Organisers of the Liverpool Pride Festival have announced the route of this year's parade.

Cinders for the Epstein

14 June 2012

The Liverpool Epstein Theatre stages the greatest fairytale of them all, Cinderella, bringing back traditional pantomime to the old Neptune stage.

Coming of age for Pauline - and Shirley

14 June 2012

St Helens Theatre Royal announce the only 2012 UK performances of Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine.

Lining up for Lion King

14 June 2012

Disney has announced the cast for the first ever UK tour of the award-winning musical The Lion King, which comes to Manchester Palace Theatre on December 1.

Opera at the Dukes

14 June 2012

The third annual season of Glyndebourne Opera is being screened at the Dukes cinema in Lancaster from June-August.