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Royal and Derngate and The Core at Corby Chief Executive, Martin Sutherland, will leave his role and head up the Coventry City of Culture 2021 team, it was announced today, 16 May 2018.  Having joined the Royal & Derngate, who have phenomenal respect both regionally and nationally, ten years ago, Sutherland has been an integral part in overseeing the development ...

Tickets are now on sale for the first two productions to be staged during the Citizens Theatre’s first season at Tramway: Cyrano de Bergerac and the return of one of the Citizens Theatre’s most successful productions to date, A Christmas Carol. While temporarily presenting work at Tramway, Citizens Theatre have stated that audiences can be assured that productions will retain ...

Scottish Opera’s Pop-up Opera is back on the road from May 2018, with three shows for audiences of all ages: A Little Bit of HMS Pinafore, A Little Bit of Eugene Onegin and Be A Sport, Spike!, which has been commissioned by Festival 2018, the cultural programme of the Glasgow 2018 European Championships. Performed in Scottish Opera’s fully accessible travelling ...

A Gym Thing, a play that profiles Body Dysmorphic Disorder, (BDD) and was a hit at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe is currently playing at London’s Pleasance Theatre. Written by and starring, Tom Vallen, A Gym Thing is a complex and powerful love story set within a 60-minute physical workout.   Will, played by Vallen, is a regular at his local gym ...

Joining The Reviews Hub down the telephone line after a cross-country tour from Peterborough to Lowestoft with That’ll Be The Day, Trevor Payne is walking right back in history to tell the story of the Everly Brothers in his new show, Walk Right Back.  The idea of the show came to Trevor three years ago, when some of his fellow ...

An initiative that will see staff at Cardiff Airport being trained by actors with learning disabilities to help improve their communications skills is the 100th project to benefit from a funding injection by Arts & Business (A&B) Cymru’s CultureStep programme. The forward-thinking scheme will see 20 members of the Airport’s security staff undergoing training with six learning disabled actors from ...

Transporting audiences into the heart of downtown Nashville, Nashville Live takes spectators on a journey through the country music history books with some of its biggest stars. Featuring music from classic artists such as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton; to more recent performers such as Garth Brooks and the Dixie Chicks, Nashville Live is a celebration of the ...

Education, Education, Education: then, a nineties political mantra, now a nostalgia-fest of nineties music, Tamagotchis, and timely political poignancy in a riotously funny and reflective piece of theatre from, Bristol-based, The Wardrobe Ensemble. Putting politics in the comprehensive, the play is a charming charge through the hopeful optimism of teachers and children alike in the aftermath of Tony Blair’s election, ...