Touring shows

Touring News – March 2020

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road in March including Sophie Woolley’s solo show Augmented, Welsh-language piece Tylwyth and the second instalment of Katie Arnstein’s trilogy, It’s A Girl!, Sexy Lamp.

balletLORENT cancels tour

balletLORENT has cancelled its tour of The Lost Happy Endings.

Lesley gets in on Act

Lesley Joseph will join the musical Sister Act.

Curious Incident starts new tour in Salford

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time launches its third UK tour at The Lowry in Salford.

Russell and Triplett reunite for Piaf in Nottingham

Jenna Russell and Sally Ann Triplett are to reunite for their first performance together since 1987 when they appear in the Nottingham Playhouse and Leeds Playhouse co-production of Piaf.

Sheila's Island appearing in Guildford

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre will produce Sheila's Island, a new version of Tim Firth's comedy Neville's Island, as its first self-produced work for several years.

Liverpool novelist’s third memoir on stage in Darlington

A play based on the third of novelist Helen Forrester’s memoirs about her childhood and youth is coming to Darlington.

Canadian singer returns to the NE with two shows

Canadian singer Melanie Gall returns to the North East for a short tour featuring two shows.

Musical classic heads to Newcastle

The classic musical Singin’ in the Rain is heading for Newcastle next year

More shows heading to Sunderland

Sunderland Empire has announced more new shows coming soon.

NE director to tour children’s version of Orwell classic

NE born director Robert Icke is to tour a children’s version of George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm.

The Dog in the Night-Time returns to Sunderland

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is coming back to Sunderland Empire this year.

Day out in Blackpool

Darren Day joins the cast of Footloose The Musical as Reverend Moore when the UK tour is at Blackpool Winter Gardens July 20–25.

A new shot at the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead re-created shot-for-shot comes to HOME Manchester.

Elysium will look back in anger

Durham’s Elysium Theatre Company is to present Look Back in Anger in May

Absurd nights out in Oldham

London Classic Theatre returns to Oldham with Alan Ayckbourn’s comic play Absurd Person Singular.

TV actress in Mersey drama

Stockport’s Lucy Dixon swaps the TV screen for live theatre in By The Waters Of Liverpool.

Odd odyssey for Liverpool troupe

Liverpool's international theatre troupe Teatro Pomodoro returns to the city with a new show this April.

A Monster Calls at The Lowry

The UK tour of A Monster Calls comes to The Lowry in Salford.

Waitress service in Manchester

The first-ever UK and Ireland tour of Broadway and West End musical Waitress is coming to Manchester Opera House.

Monster attraction for Middleton

Frankenstein comes to Middleton Arena February 26–29.

Queer Lady M for Sale

1623 Theatre Company brings its new show Queer Lady M to Waterside, Sale, February 29 as part of a 2020 national tour.

Perfect Nonsense at the Dukes

Jeeves and Wooster turn up in Perfect Nonsense at The Dukes in Lancaster.

Curtains for Opera House

Joining Jason Manford when Curtains comes to Blackpool Opera House will be Ore Oduba as Aaron Fox.

Operatic triple treat for Chester

English Touring Opera returns to Storyhouse in Chester with Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Mozart’s Così fan tutte and the St John Passion by J S Bach.

A play of dance and protuberances

A new absurdist play by Peter Mortimer comes to Tyneside in March

Lost Happy Endings in Darlington starts tour

balletLORENT begins a national tour of The Lost Happy Endings at Darlington Hippodrome.

Quiz Night coming to a venue near you?

A UK tour of a new production, The Last Quiz Night on Earth, could be coming to a venue near you.

The Spine heads for UK tour

20 Stories High presents its latest production The Spine on a UK tour.

Paul Simon show homeward bound

A stage show celebrating the life and music of Paul Simon has more tour dates for 2020.

Girl power goes on tour

A new production of Emma Rice’s musical adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers is set to tour.

RSC to present Wars of the Roses in Stratford

The Royal Shakespeare Company will stage all three parts of Henry VI in the Swan Theatre, Stratford as part of its winter 2020 season.

Love Never Dies tour includes Manchester

The first-ever UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies will play Manchester Opera House.

Monster of a writing challenge

A creative writing challenge has been launched alongside the UK tour of A Monster Calls.

Some Mothers tour for St Helens

Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em comes to St Helens Theatre Royal.

Peter Andre smoothes his way into Grease

Peter Andre will star—at certain venues—in the 2020 UK tour of Grease.

Guy musical returns to the region

Guy: A New Musical, that premièred in 2018, comes to the Waterside in Sale.

Dialling up a new Murder tour

A new production Dial M for Murder is touring the UK.

Ballet world première for Manchester

English National Ballet will create a new version of the classic 19th century ballet Raymonda to be given a world première in Manchester.

RSC to produce “miracle” play The Winter’s Tale

William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale “is not a problem play but a miracle of a play which turns and twists at lightning speed and with acute understanding of the human heart,” according to Erica Whyman who will direct it for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Geisha

Choreography by Kenneth Tindall; music by Alexandra Harwood

Street Scene

Kurt Weill (music) and Elmer Rice (book) -lyrics by Langston Hughes and Rice

Fatty Fat Fat

Katie Greenall

The Turn of the Screw

Benjamin Britten (score) Myfanwy Piper (libretto -after the story by Henry Ja...

887

Robert Lepage

Smile Club

Andrea Heaton and Adam Z Robinson

Crongton Knights

Alex Wheatle, adapted by Emteaz Hussain

The Marriage of Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (music) and Lorenzo da Ponte (libretto)

Tylwyth

Daf James

a little space

Clinton Baptiste: The Paranormalist Returns!

The Man Who Left Is Not the Man Who Came Home

Kevin Dyer

Acosta Danza Evolution

Choreographers: Pontus Lindberg, María Rovira, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Christop...

Two

Jim Cartwright

Little Wimmin

Louisa May Alcott, freely adapted by Rachel Gammon, Suzanna Hurst, Sarah Moor...

Cabaret

Book by Joe Masteroff; music by John Kander; lyrics by Fredd Ebb; based on Jo...

The Red Shoes

Choreography by Matthew Bourne and music by Bernard Herrmann, based on the fi...

Once

Book by Enda Walsh, music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová base...

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott

The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson

Jonathan Maitland

Return to Heaven

Mark Bruce

Amsterdam

Maya Arad Yasur, translated by Eran Edry

Fitting

Matt Miller and Peader Kirk

A Monster Calls

From the novel by Patrick Ness, inspired by an idea by Siobhan Dowd

Beautiful—The Carole King Musical

Douglas McGrath with words and music by Gerry Goffin & Carole King and Barry ...

Quality Street

J M Barrie

Night of the Living Dead - Remix

George A Romero and John Russo

Crongton Knights

Emteaz Hussain, based on the novel by Alex Wheatle

I Think We Are Alone

Sally Abbott

Rose and Robin

Pete Baynes and Shelley O’Brien

Dream, Sleep, Connect

Rosemary Jenkinson

Ghost Stories

Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson

The Marriage of Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte

The Turn of the Screw

Music by Benjamin Britten; libretto by Myfanwy Piper; based on the novel by H...

My Mother Said I Never Should

Charlotte Keatley

Extraordinary Wall [of Silence]

The Company

The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel

Paul Hunter

Ten Times Table

Alan Ayckbourn

Llyfr Glas Nebo

Manon Steffan Ros

Les vêpres siciliennes

Giuseppe Verdi with libretto by Eugene Scribe

Green Door

Ann Brown

Guy the Musical

Story and lyrics by Leo Mercer, music by Stephen Hyde

Trojan Horse

Helen Monks and Matt Woodhead, translated by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense

The Goodale Brothers

The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel

Paul Hunter

I Think We Are Alone

Sally Abbott

Once

Music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová; book by Enda Walsh, bas...