News

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

Gates and Wooding in Momentous Musicals gala concert

21 March 2012

Gareth Gates and Rachael Wooding will star in a gala concert at the New Wimbledon Theatre called Momentous Musicals in July.

New season at Finborough

21 March 2012

London's Finborough Theatre has announced its sumer 2012 season.

NToS and Òran Mór One Day in Spring season

21 March 2012

National Theatre of Scotland in partnership with Òran Mór is to present a season of new work from the Arab world curated by playwright David Grieg titled One Day in Spring.

We Will Rock You 10th anniversary show

20 March 2012

Queen and Ben Elton's jukebox musical We Will Rock You will stage a special performance for its tenth anniversary on 14 May.

NW productions

18 March 2012

What's on in the region this week.

Midlands productions

18 March 2012

What's on in the region this week.

Jonathan Miller to direct for Northern Broadsides

18 March 2012

Sir Jonathan Miller will direct Githa Sowerby's 1912 play Rutherford & Son for Halifax-based Northern Broadsides during the company's 20th anniversary season.

Alston, Baldwin, Davies, McGregor and Mason to celebrate Bob Lockyer's 70th birthday

18 March 2012

Leading dance artists Richard Alston, Mark Baldwin, Siobhan Davies, Wayne McGregor and Monica Mason are to celebrate Bob Lockyer’s 70th birthday with an evening of original choreography at The Place Robin Howard Dance Theatre.

News from the North East

18 March 2012

Additional Mysteries audition date. Theatre in the North East in the week beginning Monday 19th March, 2012.

BBC Cymru Wales and National Theatre of Wales offer £10,000 writing award

17 March 2012

BBC Cymru Wales TV Drama and National Theatre of Wales have teamed up with BBC Writersroom to offer a £10,000 award to Wales-based drama writers.

Dream start for Buxton Festival Fringe entrants

17 March 2012

Entries are already mounting up for this year's Buxton Festival Fringe.

Birmingham start for tour of poet’s first play

17 March 2012

UK performance poet Kate Tempest's first play, Wasted starts a 24-venue tour in Birmingham this week.

Godber comedy takes break at the New Vic

17 March 2012

BAFTA-winning playwright John Godber returns to north Staffordshire this week with the rarely performed comedy Weekend Breaks.

Students to benefit from Birmingham REP partnership

17 March 2012

Birmingham REP has announced a new partnership with Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA).