News

Protecting new writing initiatives

1 February 2014

In Battalions Delphi study launched.

"Great parts for women" in RSC Jacobethan plays

1 February 2014

Casting has been announced for the first two plays in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Roaring Girls season.

Deaf and hearing actors in Birmingham revival

1 February 2014

Bryony Lavery’s multi-award-winning play Frozen opens at Birmingham REP this week in its first major production for more than a decade.

It’s a lark as New Vic marks beginning of World War I

1 February 2014

Northern Broadsides and Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic are to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War with Deborah McAndrew’s An August Bank Holiday Lark.

Curve announces full cast for Leicester Hairspray

1 February 2014

Curve’s artistic director Paul Kerryson has revealed the full cast for the Leicester theatre’s new production of Hairspray.

Belgrade boosts its creative associates and directors

1 February 2014

Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre has announced that children’s theatre director Tony Graham will be a creative associate while writer Alan Pollock is joining the theatre’s board of directors.

Opportunity for young dancers in Northamptonshire

1 February 2014

Northamptonshire venue The Core at Corby Cube is giving dancers aged 14 to 21 the opportunity to work with the Richard Alston dance company.

Panto records fall at Birmingham Hippodrome

1 February 2014

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has become the best-selling panto at Birmingham Hippodrome for more than a decade.

Northampton venue bets on Marber poker play

1 February 2014

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate's final summer production in its Made in Northampton 2014 season will be Patrick Marber’s Dealer’s Choice.

Holiday activities at Chichester Festival Theatre

31 January 2014

Holiday activities for young people will conjure up the magical world of fairy tales at Chichester Festival Theatre this month.

Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Awarded Theatres Trust Grant

31 January 2014

Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre will receive £5,000 to improve accessibility through upgrading the main entrance to the theatre.

Three dates for tour of new musical

31 January 2014

A three-date regional tour for the new musical Heart & Soul is set to visit New Brighton, St Helens and Runcorn.

21 dates for new Northern Ballet show

31 January 2014

Northern Ballet’s new ballet for children, Three Little Pigs, embarks on an extensive tour to 21 theatres.

How To Be Immortal in Liverpool

31 January 2014

Unity Theatre in Liverpool has two performances of How To Be Immortal.

Twelfth Night marks new Everyman

31 January 2014

Liverpool’s Everyman bursts back into life with Twelfth Night.

Another chance to catch Away From Home

31 January 2014

Away From Home is a topical new play about homophobia in English football.

Proto-type performances for region

31 January 2014

The Good, the God and the Guillotine is at Contact in Manchester later this month.

Lancaster première for new show

31 January 2014

A new show by emerging writer and performer Stephanie Claire premières in Lancaster.

Circus of Horrors back on tour

31 January 2014

Circus of Horrors makes several appearances round the region in coming months.

Where there's Hope there's a prize

31 January 2014

The Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize and is a national playwriting competition run by Liverpool Hope University.