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Smash-hit Musical Six Returns To The Regent Theatre

Smash-hit Musical Six Returns To The Regent Theatre

After previous sell out success, the multi award-winning musical phenomenon Six makes its royal return to the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent from Wednesday 25 – Saturday 28 March 2026. SIX follows the six wives of Henry VIII as they take to the mic to tell their own personal tales, remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power. Since its early days as a student production in a 100-seat room at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the showhas fast become a global musical phenomenon. Six currently has productions playing on Broadway, a major US tour running concurrently. Meanwhile,…
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New Vic Theatre Present Rare Revival of Tom Wells’ Play Big Big Sky

New Vic Theatre Present Rare Revival of Tom Wells’ Play Big Big Sky

The New Vic present a rare revival of Big Big Sky by Tom Wells this July, marking only the second professional outing of this heartfelt and uplifting play from the award-winning playwright. Masterfully interweaving humour with moments of poignancy, Big Big Sky is set in a seaside café in Kilnsea, East Yorkshire, in a community nestled on the edge of an ever-changing landscape. With delicate nuance and warmth, the play explores the lives of four interconnected characters as they navigate themes of love, grief, friendship and motherhood. A moving ode to the beauty of everyday life, the play paints a…
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Operation Mincemeat Heads To The Regent Theatre

Operation Mincemeat Heads To The Regent Theatre

The world tour heads to the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent from Monday 27 April – Saturday 2 May 2026. In Operation Mincemeat, it’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stolen corpse. Equal parts farce, thriller, and Ian Fleming-style spy caper (with an assist from Mr. Fleming himself), Operation Mincemeat tells the wildly improbable and hilarious true story of the covert operation that turned the tide of WWII. SpitLip, the musical’s writers and composers, commented:"Broadway opened the…
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Review: ‘Boys From The Blackstuff’ at Regent Theatre

Review: ‘Boys From The Blackstuff’ at Regent Theatre

Photo credit Alistair Muir The Regent transforms to 80's Liverpool as hard hitting drama 'Boys From The Blackstuff' comes to the Regent on the latest leg of its 2025 UK tour. Based on the TV drama series written by Alan Bleasdale transmitting from 10 October to 7 November 1982, the stage play premiered in 2023. Following the dwindling fortunes and hopes of Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser, the boys are used to hard work and providing for their families, but there is no work and no money. Through their struggles, Bleasdale sheds light on the devastating impact of unemployment,…
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Review: ‘Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt’ At New Vic

Review: ‘Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt’ At New Vic

Photo credit Andrew Billington The New Vic hosts 'Whatever Happened To Phoebe Salt', the centrepiece of 'Arthur Berry 100', marking the centenary of the local playwright and poet's birth. Penned especially for the New Vic in 1988 but never performed, Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt was the last play Arthur Berry wrote, and has been edited by New Vic Artistic Director Theresa Heskins. The performance schedule also spanning the 100th year anniversary date of Stoke-on-Trent getting it's city status, the cast is made up largely of local actors including Isabella Rossi, who is making her stage debut. Initially set in Stoke in…
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Review: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

Review: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

Photo credit Brinkhoff-Moegenburg The spectacular stage production of the 1950's C.S. Lewis classic comes to Regent Theatre on the latest leg of its UK 2025 tour. Opening in 2017, the production follows four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie who are evacuated from London in 1940, to escape the Blitz, and sent to live with Professor Digory Kirke at a large house in the English countryside. While exploring the house, Lucy enters a wardrobe and finds herself in the magical world of Narnia, under the tyrannical rule of the White Witch. It fuses imaginative storytelling with theatrical ingenuity. The…
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Review: ‘Do I Love You?’ At New Vic

Review: ‘Do I Love You?’ At New Vic

The New Vic hosts the latest leg in the 2025 tour of John Godber Company's 'Do I Love You'. Charting the lives of three Hull based twenty-somethings Sally, Nat and Kyle who are struggling with their post-COVID humdrum lives in every aspect. Sally is her grandmother's carer, Nat and Kyle both have degrees, but all three lacking a job, finally finding work in a fast food restaurant to make ends meet. Things start to change when they attend a Northern Soul 'all-nighter' (partly because it was cheap) but soon discover the vibrant music, related dance moves and strong community spirit…
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TV Star Completes Crewe Pantomime Line Up!

TV Star Completes Crewe Pantomime Line Up!

West End Theatre and TV star Jennifer Ellison completes the magical star line-up for Crewe’s giant pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk this Christmas. The former Brookside actress and singer and will take centre stage as the boo-able baddie Poison Ivy, alongside hilarious duo Malcolm Lord and Ste Johnston from 12 December 2025 – 04 January 2026. Jennifer made her name as the feisty Emily Shadwick in iconic soap Brookside and on the international big screen as Meg Giry in the spectacular 2004 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. Musical theatre star Jennifer has performed in the West End…
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New Vic Stage World Premier Of Arthur Berry’s Last Play

New Vic Stage World Premier Of Arthur Berry’s Last Play

The New Vic Theatre will produce the world premiere production of Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt by Arthur Berry this May; a gritty, compelling drama that forms the centrepiece of Arthur Berry 100, a year-long programme of events marking the centenary of the acclaimed Stoke-on-Trent-born playwright, poet, artist and broadcaster. Set in the heart of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt tells a gripping and atmospheric story steeped in the raw, working-class experience that Berry so vividly captured in his writing. Masterfully capturing the soul of ordinary life, against a backdrop of stark, societal changes, the play is a…
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‘Legally Blonde The Musical’ Heads To Regent Theatre

‘Legally Blonde The Musical’ Heads To Regent Theatre

LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL will be directed by Curve’s Artistic Director Nikolai Foster (Kinky Boots, The Wizard of Oz, A Chorus Line) and comes hot off the heels of the sell-out tour of KINKY BOOTS, also directed by Foster and co-produced by Curve and ROYO. Casting and further creatives to be announced. Curve’s Chief Executive Chris Stafford and Artistic Director Nikolai Foster said: “LEGALLY BLONDE is firmly established in the musical theatre repertoire as a contemporary classic and it’s a pleasure to be reunited with “Little Miss Woods - comma - Elle” in the 2020s. Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin and…
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