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More reductions from the other RSC

11 January 2015

Reduced Shakespeare Company is out to reduce the UK to tears of laughter again.

Checking in at Dolphin Hotel

11 January 2015

A new play, The Dolphin Hotel by Samantha O’Rourke, is at Salford’s King’s Arms as part of their Play-4-Free Festival.

Muddy Choir on song at The Dukes

11 January 2015

The passion and desperation of teenagers caught up in World War One combines with song in a new show at The Dukes in Lancaster.

Another night at St George's planned

11 January 2015

Lovehistory Ltd and St Georges Hall are staging a buffet dinner and entertainment followed by tours, performances and animations throughout the iconic Liverpool building.

Octagon's season ahead

11 January 2015

After next week’s opening of a revival of A View From the Bridge, Bolton Octagon moves closer to home with Hindle Wakes.

NW Productions

11 January 2015

Round-up of regional productions opening week beginning Sunday January 11.

Midlands productions

11 January 2015

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 12 January.

Theatre patron wins trip to Bordeaux at Guildford

9 January 2015

Yvonne Arnaud prize draw winner.

Top drama, musicals spring into Nottingham venue

9 January 2015

Spring at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall includes everything from “thought-provoking drama” to top West End musicals.

Derbyshire company to tour play without words

9 January 2015

Physical theatre company WinterWalker is to tour the Midlands in February and March with its first major production, Three Keepers.

OBE for Birmingham Hippodrome boss Stuart

9 January 2015

Birmingham Hippodrome chief executive Stuart Griffiths has been awarded an OBE in the new year honours list for service to the arts in the city.

RSC stages première of atom bomb play in Stratford

9 January 2015

Angus Jackson will make his Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company debut directing in Stratford the world première of Tom Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer.

Charity’s boost from Lichfield panto audiences

9 January 2015

Lichfield Garrick’s panto Cinderella raised £3,218 for the charity We Love Lichfield, the single biggest donation from an organisation in the fund’s history.

Record-breaking Christmas at East Midlands theatres

9 January 2015

Derby Theatre and Mansfield Palace Theatre are celebrating a record-breaking Christmas.

RSC showcases Marlowe and Ford works in Stratford

9 January 2015

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to continue celebrating the work of Shakespeare’s contemporaries with Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and Love’s Sacrifice by John Ford in Stratford.

The Hawth announces its spring season

8 January 2015

The 2015 spring programme at The Hawth in Crawley offers comedy, music, family shows and film.

Theatre group for young people with learning disabilities at Chichester

8 January 2015

A West Sussex theatre group for young people with learning disabilities is keen to welcome new members at the start of its spring term.

Lyric Hammersmith gets Frantic Othello

4 January 2015

Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth co-production opens at Lyric Hammersmith.

Coming up at The Jack Studio Theatre

4 January 2015

Two productions from the inaugural playwright-in-residence feature in the run up to Write Now 6.

A View from the Bridge West End transfer

4 January 2015

An additional preview for Young Vic's West End transfer.