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Theatre News
whats on at the local Theatre
A landmark year for The Regent Theatre!!!!
2009 is a special year for The Regent Theatre, as the venue celebrates its TENTH ANNIVERSARY! For the past decade, the Hanley theatre has brought the biggest and the best shows from around the world to Stoke-on-Trent. The theatre was officially opened by Her Majesty the Queen on October 28th, 1999. Since then, the...
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A thrilling show that’s just bursting with life!!
EXPECT spine-tingling ‘a capella’ harmonies, compulsive drumming and captivating gumboot-dancing at Newcastle on Monday, July 20th! For, that is the date on which Zimbabwe’s greatest song-and-dance company makes (yet another) welcome return to the New Vic Theatre. Bare-torsoed and hard-hatted, Black Umfolosi perform with fun and joyful enthusiasm in a thrilling show that is...
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“Sexy, sassy, sultry, seductive, sensual, slinky, sophisticated”!!!!
“MURDER, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery and treachery…all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts”! So begins the international, award-winning musical, Chicago’, which breezes into Hanley’s Regent Theatre in early-May! Lauded by The Times as “the most exciting musical of its generation”, the hit show is based on real-life events, back in...
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Baroque musical m’elange in-the-round!!!!
NEWCASTLE’S New Vic Theatre is celebrating the 350th anniversary of the birth of the man frequently lauded as England’s greatest composer in April! Renowned Manchester Camerata is delighted to present a pleasingly-varied assortment of Baroque masterpieces, dating from the late-17th and early-18th centuries, including a Chacony by ‘birthday-boy’, Henry Purcell (1659-95). The programme also...
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