• Box of Tricks,
• Katie Scott,
• Darren Kuppan,
• Under Three Moons
• Daniel Kanaber
• Kyle Rowe
• Adam Quayle

Box of Tricks have the casting for their premiere of Daniel Kanaber’s new play Under Three Moons which starts its Autumn tour at Salford’s The Lowry,

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• Josh Andrews,
• Leeds Grand Theatre,
• Band of Gold
• Gaynor Faye
• Key Mellor
• Laurie Brett
• Kieron Richardson
• Shayne Ward
• Sacha Parkinson

Emmerdale star Gaynor Faye leads an all-star cast for the world première of Key Mellor’s trailblazing TV series Band of Gold at Leeds Grand Theatre.

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• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
• Grand Opera House, York,
• Vicki Michelle,
• Mark Little
• Jonny Muir
• Louise Henry

Sparkle and shine, it’s panto time! Well, not quite yet, but the cast of this year’s pantomime at York Grand Opera House are excited and raring to get started!

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• Maxwell Caulfield,
• Matt Barber,
• Leeds Grand Theatre,
• Classic Thriller Theatre Company,
• The Lady Vanishes
• Lorna Fitzgerald
• Juliet Mills
• Philip Lowrie

Old school movie fans will be looking forward to the first onstage adaption of the Hitchcock classic The Lady Vanishes at Leeds Grand Theatre presented by the Classic Thriller Theatre Company,

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• The Met,
• Greater Manchester Fringe,
• Jennie Fairclough
• WonderIf Theatre
• Mojo

All too often budding actors are lost to the profession when they leave college as the endless struggle to find work can smash their dreams which prompted performance arts teacher Jennie Fairclough to do something about it.

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• Box of Tricks,
• Jonathan Watkins,
• Lawrence Batley Theatre,
• Proper Job Theatre Company,
• English Touring Theatre,
• The Hound of the Baskervilles,
• Joyce Branagh,
• Gary Clarke,
• Stick Man,
• Olivia Race,
• Phoenix Dance Theatre
• April De Angelis
• The Rite of Spring
• Henry V
• Toast
• Nigel Slater
• Henry Filloux-Bennett
• Sameena Hussain
• Under Three Moons
• Dorian
• Matt Haig
• Reasons To Stay Alive
• Wasteland
• Left Unseen
• Tabby McTat
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
• Eric Carle
• An Evening of Eric & Ern
• Strangers On A Train Set
• ThickSkin
• How Not To Drown
• Nikita Gill
• Fierce Fairytales

Huddersfield’s Lawrence Batley Theatre has announced a bold season including a big community production to celebrate its 25-year anniversary.

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• James Brining,
• Leeds Playhouse
• Missing People
• Brad Birch
• Kani Public Arts Center
• Kisei Ei
• Nobuhiro Nishikawa

Leeds Playhouse are staging a new cross cultural play with Kani Public Arts Center as one of the official events in the Japan Season of Culture.

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• Frank Kennedy,
• Liverpool Network Theatre Group,
• Donna Day,
• As You Like It,
• James Gray

Liverpool Network Theatre Group (LNTG) are well into rehearsals for their forthcoming summer production of one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It, which is being staged at several venues around the city. I was pleased to catch up with director Frank Kennedy, Donna Day, Chair of LNTG and performing in this production, and Production Manager James Gray.

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• Chicago,
• Alice Weltermann
• Rosa Bolton
• Ben Storey
• Hannah Prichard
• Megan Moss
• Charlie Bower
• Jacob Broughton-Glerup
• Danny Hawley
• Harry Foster-Major
• Ed Maxted
• Rhys Quinn
• Emma Nielsen
• Easy Street Theatre Company

‘You are about to see a story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery – all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts.’

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• York Theatre Royal,
• The Lowry,
• Pilot Theatre,
• Mercury Theatre,
• Crongton Knights
• Emteaz Hussain
• Alex Wheatle
• Strictly Arts Theatre Company
• Corey Campbell

Fresh from their smash hit tour of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses, Pilot Theatre will next stage the world premiere of Crongton Knights.

Emteaz Hussain has adapted Alex Wheatle’s Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize Winner that starts on the tough Crongton Estate as six mates set out to help a friend in trouble.

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