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"Important that the story is told again": Private Peaceful

Cast revealed for new Private Peaceful tour

15 January 2022

Nottingham Playhouse has announced the cast for Simon Reade’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s World War I novel Private Peaceful.

A Doll’s House postponed

15 January 2022

Elysium Theatre Company has postponed its planned tour of A Doll’s House.

Comedy surprises in store

12 January 2022

The Play What I Wrote tours to The Lowry in Salford at the end of the month.

Footloose heads back to resort

12 January 2022

Footloose the Musical will arrive back in Blackpool.

Making space at the pub

12 January 2022

Box of Tricks’ latest immersive play The Last Quiz Night on Earth is touring with several dates around the region.

Full cast revealed for Osmonds’ new musical

12 January 2022

Georgia Lennon (Marie), Charlie Allen (George) and Nicola Bryan (Olive) have joined the cast of The Osmonds: A New Musical which will start a UK and Ireland tour at Leicester’s Curve theatre.

Blackpool hit for SIX

12 January 2022

SIX, the smash hit musical, will return to Blackpool Opera House.

Magic at show's Hart

12 January 2022

Britain’s Got Talent 2019 finalist Ben Hart is heading back to the stage.

Alan Riley (Bob) and James Greaves (Bernard) in Dead Good

“Two finest UK full-mask actors” perform together

7 January 2022

Full-mask theatre company Vamos has tempted Alan Riley back onto the stage to appear in a tour of Dead Good, originally commissioned by London International Mime Festival.

Dennis Herdman, Mitesh Soni and Thom Tuck in The Play What I Wrote

Seven theatres to welcome The Play What I Wrote

5 January 2022

The Birmingham REP production of The Play What I Wrote which was the theatre’s Christmas 2021 attraction is to go on a seven-venue tour.

Three of the best ballets

4 January 2022

The Russian State Ballet of Siberia brings Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker to Blackpool Grand this weekend.

Fever pitch for Manchester

4 January 2022

TV soap star Richard Winsor leads the cast of Saturday Night Fever when it comes to Manchester Opera House later this month.

Ben Joyce as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys at the Trafalgar Theatre

Jersey Boys’ Ben’s dash to save Birmingham show

28 December 2021

Ben Joyce, Frankie Valli in the West End production of Jersey Boys, stepped in at short notice in the touring production at Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre.

Show about Britney Spears to tour in spring 2022

21 December 2021

Shereen Roushbaiani is to tour a one-woman show which “melds together the real-world events of Britney Spears’ turbulent life with the voice of a millennial superfan”.

Hair raising ticket sales

19 December 2021

Hairspray the Musical is breaking records at Blackpool Opera House.

Molly-Grace Cutler who will play Carole King

Cast announced for new tour of Beautiful musical

17 December 2021

Molly-Grace Cutler will take the lead role in a new UK tour of Beautiful—The Carole King Musical which starts at Leicester’s Curve theatre.

NDT returns to UK for nine-venue tour

15 December 2021

Nederlands Dans Theater—NDT 2—will tour the UK with a triple bill by Marco Goecke, Hans van Manen and Johan Inger including two UK and Ireland premières.

Matt gloss on Rock Of Ages

10 December 2021

The team behind musical Rock Of Ages welcomes musical theatre star and X Factor champion Matt Terry as Stacee Jaxx at Blackpool Winter Gardens in March.

Casting for The Invisible Man announced

8 December 2021

Northern Stage has announced the casting for its production of The Invisible Man

Audio description for Acosta's 100% Cuban

8 December 2021

The 100% Cuban tour from Acosta Danza includes four audio-described performances for blind and visually-impaired theatre-goers in London, Salford, Hull and Plymouth from Sightlines Audio Description Services.

Hotel bookings being taken

6 December 2021

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, adapted for the stage, is to tour the UK in 2022.

Five Go Osmond!

6 December 2021

The actors who will be playing the five Osmond brothers in a world première of The Osmonds: A New Musical have been chosen.

Hurry for Ore in Blackpool

6 December 2021

Actor, presenter and winner of Strictly Come Dancing Ore Oduba fronts The Rocky Horror Show in Blackpool this week.

Girl From The North up north

6 December 2021

Double Olivier winner Girl From The North Country returns to the UK as part of a major international tour.

Treasure Island on tour in the North East

1 December 2021

Theatre Space North East is to tour Treasure Island around this North East in December.

More dates for Shechter's Double Murder

27 November 2021

Hofesh Shechter Company has announced further dates for Double Murder, presented as two distinctly contrasting pieces: Clowns and The Fix.

From YouTube to title role

23 November 2021

Christina Bianco, Shobna Gulati and Ian Kelsey lead the cast of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at The Lowry in Salford.

BRB tours Acosta's Don Quixote

21 November 2021

For spring 2022, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Director Carlos Acosta will revive Cervantes’ famous knight featuring music by Ludwig Minkus.

Anything Goes to tour and return to Barbican

18 November 2021

The musical Anything Goes which smashed box-office records at the Barbican Theatre is to tour the UK in the spring and will sail back to the Barbican in summer 2022 for an eight-week residency.

Reviews

The Play What I Wrote

Hamish McColl, Sean Foley and Eddie Braben

David Pugh and Theatre Royal Bath Productions in association with Birmingham ...

Theatre Royal Bath

12–22 January 2022

Swan Lake

Tchaikovsky

The Russian State Ballet of Siberia

Sheffield Lyceum

10–12 January 2022

The Rocky Horror Show

Richard O'Brien

Trafalgar Theatre Productions

Curve Theatre, Leicester

10–15 January 2022

School of Rock

Score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, book by Julian Fellowes...

David Ian, Crossroads Live, Warner Music Group, Access Industries Inc and the...

Palace Theatre, Manchester

4–15 January 2022

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

C S Lewis, dramaturg and original writer in the room Adam Peck

Elliott & Harper Productions and Catherine Schreiber, based on the original L...

The Lowry, Salford

8 December 2021–15 January 2022

The Book of Mormon

Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone

Anne Garefino, Important Musicals LLC, Sonia Friedman Productions, Roger Berl...

Palace Theatre, Manchester

8 December 2021–1 January 2022

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Book by Brian Hill, original music by Richard M and Robert B Sherman with new...

Michael Harrison

Leeds Grand Theatre

8 December 2021–2 January 2022

Blood Brothers

Willy Russell

Ambassador Theatre Group

New Victoria Theatre, Woking

23–27 November 2021

Nutcracker!

Score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, adaptation by Matthew Bourne, Martin Dunca...

New Adventures

The Lowry, Salford

23 November–4 December 2021

The Addams Family

Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice and Andrew Lippa

Aria Entertainments and Music and Lyrics

Sheffield Lyceum

23–27 November 2021

White Christmas

Music & lyrics by Irvin Berlin, book by David Ives & Paul Blake, written for ...

Curve

Palace Theatre, Manchester

22 November–4 December 2021