STORYSTOCK 2016
17 – 19 February

• Tickets on sale now for children’s story-telling festival at the Bush Theatre
• Featuring A Pocketful of Grimms & Arabian Nights from Story Pocket Theatre – winner of Primary Times Best Children’s Show Edinburgh Fringe 2015
• STORYSTOCK 2016 will continue to Clapham Omnibus in April, Wilderness Festival in August & more dates to be announced

Tickets are now on sale for the hugely popular travelling story circus STORYSTOCK, taking place during spring half-term. The autumn edition of the circus at the Bush Theatre attracted nearly 3000 visitors over three days. STORYSTOCK is a festival of storytelling for children aged 2-11 and their families.

Bookish acts will bring stories to life through live shows, storytelling, creative workshops, parties and a story treasure hunt. Hosted by the fabulous Storymaster with an all-day creative doodling café, pop-up author signings, competitions, Tales on Moon Lane bookshop, quizzes and games.

STORYSTOCK is for writers, readers and lovers of stories – 3 days of fun for 2-11 year olds and their families.

STORYSTOCK is sponsored by angels & urchins magazine, Finlay Brewer, Keystone Tutors, Science Wizards and Song Academy and is produced in partnership with the Bush Theatre.

Storystock                                                                                          Listings

Storystock 2016
17-19 February 2016
Bush Theatre
7 Uxbridge Road, London, W12 8LJ

Box Office: 020 8743 5050 / bushtheatre.co.uk

Tickets range from £2 to £15 and are on sale via the Bush Theatre box office.

Find out more at storystock.co.uk or follow the festival on twitter @StoryStockFest

LEEDS GRAND THEATRE IN 2016

(Basically there’s loads on!)

There’s a heady mix of comedy, drama, dance, music and musical theatre at Leeds Grand this year.  With big names including Pixie Lott taking the role made iconic by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s,Alexandra Burke in The Bodyguard, Strictly’s Pasha, Paddy McGuinness, Sean Lock, Ray Mears, Jodie Prenger, Derren Brown, Jane McDonald and many more.

Big Musicals include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats, Guys & Dolls, The Commitmentsand Blood Brothers.

Booking details: leedsgrandtheatre.com / 0844 848 2700

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CAST ANNOUNCED FOR RATTIGAN CLASSIC

Casting has been announced for the extended national tour of Terence Rattigan’s war-time classic Flare Path, which comes to Darlington Civic Theatre in April

The highly acclaimed 2015 national tour of Terence Rattigan’s Flare Path, directed by Justin Audibert, has been extended due to popular demand and will visit Darlington Civic Theatre from Tuesday 12 to Saturday 16 April. The cast will be led by Graham Seed as Squadron Leader Swanson, Lynden Edwards as Peter Kyle and Hedydd Dylan as Patricia Graham. They will be joined by Claire Andreadis as Countess Skriczevinsky, William Reay as Flying Officer Count Skriczevinsky and Corporal Jones, Jamie Hogarth as Sergeant Miller, Charlie G Hawkins as Percy, Polly Hughes as Mrs Miller and Emma Carter as Betty.

Graham Seed is perhaps best known for playing Nigel Pargetter in the BBC radio series The Archers for 27 years until his dramatic exit at the beginning of 2011. He is the recipient of the Broadcaster of the Year Awards 2010 from the Broadcasting Press Guild and the Voice of Listener & Viewer Special Award 2010. Graham’s recent work in theatre includes An Audience with Jimmy Savile opposite Alistair McGowan (London’s Park Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015), The Mousetrap (National Tour), Yes Prime Minister (National Tour) and Toad of Toad Hall (West End).

Lynden Edwards’s West End credits include Mr Lindquist and Carl Magnus in Trevor Nunn’s Tony Award-winning production of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music (Garrick & Menier Theatres), Les Misérables (Palace Theatre) and The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre).

Hedydd Dylan’s recent theatre credits include The Watchman/Cassandra/Cilissa/Athene in The Oresteia (HOME Theatre), Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jackie Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer and Jane Damport in The Shoemaker’s Holiday (all for the Royal Shakespeare Company).

Based on Rattigan’s experiences as a tail gunner during World War II, Flare Path paints an evocative portrait of life in wartime Britain for the life-and-death existence of the RAF bomber crews, and their wives and sweethearts who were left waiting their return.

Set in 1942 against a backdrop of heartache and quiet bravery, Flare Path tells the story of former actress Patricia, the wife of RAF pilot Teddy, whose marriage is tested to the limits by the surprise arrival of Patricia’s ex‐lover and Hollywood idol Peter Kyle. An unexpected and dangerous mission over Germany puts Patricia at the centre of an emotional conflict as unpredictable as the war in the skies.

Flare Path combines highly charged drama with a truly authentic taste of the fear, camaraderie and passion experienced by the men and women who fought to save their country, their families and each other.

Flare Path runs at Darlington Civic Theatre from Tuesday 12 to Saturday 16 April with a free post show talk on Wednesday 13 April.

Recommended age 12+. Tickets* are £17 to £25.50. For tickets and more information visit darlingtoncivic.co.uk or call 01325 486555.

*All prices include a £1 restoration levy

York Stage Musicals Presents

GHOST THE MUSICAL

GRAND OPERA HOUSE YORK

Tuesday 16 – Saturday 20 February 2016

The dazzling West End and Broadway hit musical Ghost, based on the Oscar winning Paramount Pictures film written by Bruce Joel Rubin and starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, comes to the Grand Opera House stage next February in an electrifying new production.

When Sam Wheat is murdered on a New York street, he finds himself trapped between this world and the next. After many attempts at trying to communicate with girlfriend Molly he seeks the help of a phony psychic in the hope of saving her from his murderer. As time begins to run out both Sam and Molly learn the hard way to keep their friends close and their enemies even closer.

Ghost features a stunning score from Grammy Award-winning legends Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard (writer of Michael Jackson’s Man In The Mirror), and also includes the unforgettable Unchained Melody.

Nominated for five Olivier Awards and three Tony’s Ghost has wowed audiences the world over and now York Stage Musicals bring this timeless classic to the city centre for audiences to experience…

Be ready to believe.

Tickets from £10 from box office on 0844 871 3024 or to book online go to www.atgtickets.com/york

LAST CHANCE TO SEE ‘FORGET ME NOT’ BY TOM HOLLOWAY AT BUSH THEATRE

• Run ends 16 January
• Two weeks left to see new play about the transport of British orphans to Australia in the 1940s, 50s and 60s
• Production marks Eleanor Bron’s return to the stage after more than a decade

FORGET ME NOT by Tom Holloway, directed by Steven Atkinson will end its run at the Bush Theatre on 16 January 2016.  The production opened at the Bush Theatre in December, starring Eleanor Bron, Russell Floyd, Sarah Ridgeway and Sargon Yelda. 

This European premiere reunites the Bush Theatre with HighTide Festival Theatre as co-producers on FORGET ME NOT.

Under an agreement between the British and Australian Governments, between 1945 and 1968, over three thousand British children were told they were orphans and sent to Australia on a promise of warmth, fresh air, abundant food and boundless opportunity. Instead they arrived to deprived institutions where neglect and abuse were the norm.

Tom Holloway’s tender new play unearths a secret buried by time that, in turn, exposes a world of historical injustices currently in the limelight. This European premiere reunites the Bush Theatre with HighTide Festival Theatre (Incognito by Nick Payne, 2014) and is directed by HighTide’s Artistic Director, Steven Atkinson.

Russell Floyd plays Gerry, Eleanor Bron plays Mary, Sarah Ridgeway plays Sally and Sargon Yelda plays Mark.

Tom Holloway is an award-winning Australian playwright. Plays include Beyond the Neck(Performing Lines, Tasmania, 2008 – winner of the Australian Writers’ Guild award for Writing For The Stage), Don’t Say the Words (Griffin Theatre Company and Tasmania Theatre, 2008),Red Sky Morning (Red Stitch Actors Theatre, 2008 – Green Room Award for Best New Australian Play), And No More Shall We Part (In Australia, Griffin Theatre Company, 2011 Winner of the Australian Writers’ Guild for Writing for the Stage and the Louis Esson Victorian Premier’s Award for Literature, in the UK, Hampstead Theatre London and Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, 2012) and Love Me Tender (Company B Belvoir St/ Griffin Theatre Company and Thin Ice, 2009 & 2010), Gambling (Soho Theatre/ Eleanor Lloyd Productions, London 2010), Fatherland (The Gate Theatre, London 2011 and Munich Yung Og Radikal Festival), Forget Me Not (Co-commissioned by Liverpool Everyman and Belvoir Street Theatre and produced by Belvoir, 2013).

Steven Atkinson is the co-founder and Artistic Director of HighTide Festival Theatre. His directing for HighTide includes Lampedusa (Soho Theatre/HighTide Festival), peddling (Arcola Theatre/Off-Broadway/HighTide Festival), Pussy Riot: Hunger Strike (Bush Theatre/Southbank Centre), Neighbors (Nuffield Theatre/HighTide Festival), Bottleneck (Soho Theatre/UK tour), Clockwork, (HighTide Festival), Bethany (HighTide Festival/Public Theater, New York), Incoming (Latitude Festival/HighTide Festival), Dusk Rings A Bell (Watford Palace Theatre/HighTide Festival), Lidless (Trafalgar Studios/HighTide Festival), Muhmah (HighTide Festival), The Pitch (Latitude Festival). His other direction includes Three Card Trick (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse), The Afghan and the Penguin (BBC Radio 4), Freedom Trilogy (Hull Truck Theatre) and Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Edinburgh Festival).

FORGET ME NOT will be followed by PINK MIST, the acclaimed Bristol Old Vic Production (21 January – 13 February 2016).

5 STAR WRESTLING

Rey Mysterio v AJ Styles

SHEFFIELD ARENA
Thursday 14th January 2016

And that’s not all. Serious Parody also launched 5 Star Wrestling as a major new wrestling promotion: 5 Star Wrestling The ReGenesis Tour.

Next week, on Thursday January 14th at the Sheffield Arena, for the first time ever, former WWE World Heavyweight Champion Rey Mysterio, will take on the former IWGP and TNA World Heavyweight Champion, AJ Styles, in a truly historic dream match that has never been possible before now.

“AJ Styles is arguably the greatest wrestler on the planet today. Top tier wrestling personalities including Stone Cold Steve Austin, Taz and Jim Ross, have all recently pointed out that he should be applying his trade in the WWE. To have him go one-on-one with Rey Mysterio… there honestly isn’t a bigger match that a wrestling promoter other than Vince McMahon himself could make right now. It’s never been possible before and who knows if it will ever happen again and I’m so excited to be able to give wrestling fans an opportunity to see this match.” said Hinkles.

Tickets for this historic event are on sale now, with a jam packed roster including: Ring of Honor, World Heavyweight Champion: Jay Lethal, Lucha Underground star John Hennigan (Morrison, WWE) and the former WWE United States Champion Carlito, going up against the very best of British wrestlers: including Global Force Champion, Nick Aldis (Magnus, TNA), Jimmy Havoc, Will Ospreay, Joe Coffey, Marty Scurll and MANY, MANY, MORE! (line-up subject to change).

Do not miss out on this record breaking, epic event!

Tickets are available from the Sheffield Arena box office on 0114 256 56 56 or online at www.sheffieldarena.co.uk priced £33 & £49.50 (including booking fee) with a limited number of VIP tickets priced £165 (including booking fee) this includes tickets in front 2 rows, a meet & great with Rey Mysterio plus limited edition signed merchandise from every wrestler on the roster.

BRING ME THE HORIZON
SHEFFIELD ARENA
SUNDAY 6^TH NOVEMBER 2016

The latest home grown band to take to the Sheffield Arena stage are Sheffield rockers Bring Me The Horizon who will perform their biggest hometown gig to date on Sunday 6^th November 2016.

Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday 8^th January, available in person at the Arena Box Office, by phone on 0114 256 5656 or online at www.sheffieldarena.co.uk.

Tickets purchased online or by phone are priced £38.50 including booking fee.  Tickets purchased in person at the Arena box office are priced £36.75 including booking fee.

One of the most ambitious of modern metal bands they have toured relentlessly they have conquered the festival scene and provoked extreme reaction both at home & abroad.  BMTH broke out of the metal-core ghetto with their irrepressible tunes, intelligent lyrics and vibrant, untameable spirit bringing in pop fans and alternative kids alike and become the most exhilarating, boundary-smashing rock band on the planet.

The heaviest of bands with a lightness of touch. In a world where too many bands stay safely in their designated lanes, BMTH are busting out of theirs and taking their hardcore fans with them, all the while attracting new listeners.

BMTH will be making their Sheffield Arena debut on Sunday 6th November 2016 with tickets going on general sale at 9am of Friday 8th January available in person at the Arena Box Office, by phone on 0114 256 5656 or online at www.sheffieldarena.co.uk.

NO MUCK, JUST CLASSIC BRASS

The world-renowned Grimethorpe Colliery Band to bring their award-winning sound to Darlington Civic Theatre in January

Formed in 1917, the world-renowned Grimethorpe Colliery Band has become a British institution. Throughout the years, their competition successes include16 Brass in Concert championship titles, 11 times Yorkshire Regional Champions, two English National Championship victories, four times British Open Champions and four times National Champion Brass Band of Great Britain.

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the film Brassed Off and following their sell-out concert at Darlington

Civic theatre last year, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band returns with a new programme of popular classics, light music favourites and material from the hit movie.

The Grimethorpe Colliery Band is at Darlington Civic Theatre on Saturday 16 January.

Tickets* £19.50 & £21

To book contact the Box Office on 01325 486 555 or visit www.darlingtoncivic.co.uk

*All prices include a £1 restoration levy

A GHOST TRAIN…WITH ADDED BITE.

Steve Steinman returns to Darlington Civic Theatre in January with the all new Vampires Rock saga, The Ghost Train.

After twelve years and with over a million tickets sold, Steve Steinman returns as Baron Von Rockula in the all-new stage spectacular, Vampires Rock, The Ghost Train.

As Club Live And Let Die burns to the ground, Baron Von Rockula, played by Steve Steinman, flees the ill-fated club with his band of blood sucking vampires in search of a new home. Eventually they come across and old, abandoned fairground ride, The Ghost Train, where they take refuge and make this their new home.

Along with Steinman, a full cast of superb singers, dancers and a formidable band blast their way through some of the greatest ever rock anthems including We Will Rock You, Bat Out Of Hell, Sweet Child Of Mine, Total Eclipse Of The Heart and many more.

“Fantastic, sexy, very funny and fabulously over the top show” Nottingham Post

Vampires Rock, The Ghost Train is at Darlington Civic Theatre on Friday 15 January.

Tickets* £22.50 & £24.50, Groups 10+ get 1 free.

To book contact the Box Office on 01325 486 555 or visit www.darlingtoncivic.co.uk

*All prices include a £1 restoration levy