Casting Announced For New Musical Pieces Of String at Mercury Theatre
Casting announced for new musical Pieces Of String at Mercury Theatre Colchester from 20 April 2018.
Regional
All the winners from the Manchester Theatre Awards
Mark Ludmon takes a look at all the winners from the Manchester Theatre Awards 2018 Oldham Coliseum’s staging of Florian Zeller’s drama The Father has won the title of best production along with best leading actor for Kenneth Alan Taylor in the Manchester Theatre Awards. The north-west premiere of the play, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Kevin Shaw, was among a number of home-grown productions to receive accolades at today’s ceremony at The Lowry in Salford alongside touring shows. Janet Suzman was named best actress in a leading role for the revival of Martin Sherman’s one-woman show Rose at Home. Both awards for supporting roles also went to productions at Home: Katie West for Uncle Vanya and Andrew Sheridan in the UK tour of Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places and Things. Paul Auster’s City of Glass, adapted by Duncan Macmillan and premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in London, racked … Read more
LGBT Play Shedding Skin Premieres at Mercury Theatre
Colchester based theatre company Stage Write make a welcome return to the Mercury Studio with Paul T. Davies’s new play Shedding Skin.
The Lovely Bones Tour – Book Tickets
One of the best-selling novels of the 21st century Alice Seabold’s The Lovely Bones is returning by popular demand. Book Tickets.
Nichola McAuliffe stars in new adaptation of Great Expectations
A brand-new production of the timeless classic Great Expectations starring Nichola McAuliffe, comes to Richmond Theatre from Mon 12 – Sat 17 Mar
C S Lewis helps West Yorkshire Playhouse break box office records
West Yorkshire Playhouse’s production of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is set to break all existing box office records, becoming West Yorkshire Playhouse’s most popular production ever.
Dark Comedy Dead and Breathing to play Liverpool and London
Lizan Mitchell and Kim Tatum aka Mzz Kimberley will star in Dead and Breathing, the acclaimed US social satire by Chisa Hutchinson which will play at Unity (Liverpool) and then The Albany (London).
Regional UK Theatre looking forward 2018
Mark Ludmon examines the year ahead for regional theatre in 2018. Bolton girl Maxine Peake has made her mark on TV and the London stage but she returns to her roots with her second play, Queens of the Coal Age. Based on the true story of four women in Lancashire during the miners’ strike in the 1980s, it will be at the Royal Exchange in Manchester from 28 June to 21 July. Also at the Royal Exchange, Maxine Peake will star in Sarah Frankcom’s new production of Beckett’s Happy Days from 25 May to 23 June. Other highlights coming up at the Royal Exchange include Julie Hesmondhalgh in Kendall Feaver’s new play The Almighty Sometimes and April De Angelis’s new adaptation of Frankenstein. A new production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard directed by Michael Boyd, the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will come to the Royal Exchange … Read more
