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Regent: Diversity Announce New Tour

Regent: Diversity Announce New Tour

This brand-new show heads to the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, from Wednesday 20 – Thursday 21 March 2024. Britain’s most-successful dance group, Diversity, have announced their brand-new UK and Ireland tour, Supernova. The 66-date tour takes place across 40 towns and cities throughout 2023 and 2024 and heads to the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent from Wed 20 – Thu 21 March 2024. Tickets are now on sale and can be booked at atgtickets.com/stoke. Supernova follows Diversity’s sold-out Connected tour earlier this year, which combined playful, comedic routines with powerful statements on human connectivity. Big, relentless, and energetic, the tour dazzled fans across the UK. Diversity took the nation by storm when they won the third…
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Eric’s Christmas Turkey Sees Favourite Return To New Vic

Eric’s Christmas Turkey Sees Favourite Return To New Vic

Loveable rogue ‘Eric’ is back at the New Vic this festive season, as David Graham Productions bring a fun-packed Christmas show to the stage. Eric’s Christmas Turkey is stuffed full with sensational 60s songs and hilarious comedy and is on stage from Monday 28 November to Saturday 10 December. When Eric sees his local Amateur Dramatic Society are looking for men to take part in their Christmas production, he realises they must have an excess of women. As ‘an excess of women’ is Eric’s idea of heaven he signs up. However, double bookings of the rehearsal space, an over-enthusiastic Producer who is…
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Full Cast Announced For The Bodyguard, including Pussycat Doll and Emmerdale Actor

Full Cast Announced For The Bodyguard, including Pussycat Doll and Emmerdale Actor

Producers, Michael Harrison and David Ian are delighted to announce that Emmerdale and Hollyoaks star Ayden Callaghan will join the previously announced Grammy-nominated, former Pussycat Doll, Melody Thornton for the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of the award-winning international smash hit musical THE BODYGUARD in the roles of Frank Farmer and Rachel Marron respectively. The production will head to the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent from Monday 27 February to Saturday 4 March 2023. Further casting for the tour includes Emily-Mae as Nicki Marron, John Macaulay as Bill Devaney, Graham Elwell as Tony, James Groom as Sy Spector, Marios Nicolaides as Stalker and Fergal Coghlan as Ray Court.  The role of Fletcher will be shared by Kaylenn Aires Fonseca, Iesa Miller, Frankie Keita and Reneo Kusi-Appauh. The cast is completed by Alexandros Beshonges, Kayne Gordon, Jack…
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Heathers The Musical Makes Its Way To The Regent

Heathers The Musical Makes Its Way To The Regent

Following two smash hit West End seasons, a record-breaking run at The Other Palace and winning the WhatsOnStage award for BEST NEW MUSICAL, Heathers The Musical, the black comedy rock musical based on the eponymous 1988 film, embarks on a new national tour. Westerberg High’s Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day. But when she joins the beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers and her dreams of popularity may finally come true, mysterious teen rebel JD teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it is murder being a somebody. For ticket information https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/heathers-the-musical/regent-theatre/
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Review: Saturday Night Fever. 5* Entertainment

Review: Saturday Night Fever. 5* Entertainment

The Regent has always had fantastic musical productions and tonight's opening of the 1998 musical Saturday Night Fever. based on the 1977 film is no different in its high calibre. The story follows Tony Manero (Jack Wilcox) negotiating his way through 1970's Brooklyn. Complete with dead-end job and a questionable family atmosphere at home, his true passion is waiting for the weekend at the local discotheque where he can dance. Spying his big chance when a big disco dancing competition is announced, he convinces Stephanie Mangano (Rebekah Bryant) to become his dance partner and sparks fly on and off the…
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New Vic 60th Celebrations Culminate With Christmas Show Alice in Wonderland

New Vic 60th Celebrations Culminate With Christmas Show Alice in Wonderland

As their production of the critically-acclaimed Marvellous opens in the West End, the New Vic’s festive show Alice in Wonderland begins to take shape at the theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme as the company prepares for the finale celebrations of their 60th anniversary year. New Vic Artistic Director Theresa Heskins said: “I’m so happy to be bringing our version of Alice in Wonderland to the New Vic stage this year. It feels extra special to be sharing this show as the finale to our 60th anniversary year of theatre making here in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. We’ve made it especially for the New Vic, with local people and theatre…
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Celebration Of Gladys Knight Comes To Stoke!

Celebration Of Gladys Knight Comes To Stoke!

Born in Georgia in 1944, the iconic Gladys Knight began singing with her siblings at age 8. The group opened for many R&B legends in the 1950s before heading to Motown. In 1996, Gladys Knight received the Society of Singers ELLA Award at which time she was declared the ‘Empress of Soul’ and is currently listed on Rolling Stone’s list of the Greatest Singers of All Time. Capturing the essence of the Multi Award Winning Ms Gladys Knight, Hayley Ria Christian emulates the true magic that the Empress of Soul delivers on stage. The production features hit songs including Baby Don’t Change Your…
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Interview: Rebekah Bryant talks ‘Saturday Night Fever’

Interview: Rebekah Bryant talks ‘Saturday Night Fever’

Angela Smith from KnotFM chats to Rebekah Bryant who will be playing Stephanie Mangano in the upcoming visit of Saturday Night Fever to Regent Theatre Angela talks to Rebekah about the role, what to expect and her career to date https://soundcloud.com/user-863110835/rebekah-bryant-interview-17102022
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Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls Head To Victoria Hall

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls Head To Victoria Hall

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls will entertain Stoke-on-Trent audiences at the Victoria Hall as part of their The Never Ending Tour of Everywhere. They will be joined by very special guests Lottery Winners and Wilswood Buoys. Frank Turner is one of the UK’s most successful artists. He’s released 9 studio albums in his 17-year solo career, the most recent of which, ‘FTHC’ (Feb 2022) became his first #1 hit on the UK Official Album Chart. His previous four albums have all peaked at #2 or #3 in the chart. Having sold over a million albums worldwide, he has scored three gold-certified albums and one silver…
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Review: Ayckbourn’s Family Album at New Vic

Review: Ayckbourn’s Family Album at New Vic

Photo Credit: Tony Bartholomew The New Vic, fresh from its 60th anniversary celebrations last weekend plays host to Alan Ayckbourn's 87th play, starting tonight, a mere few weeks after its premier in Scarborough in September. One of several plays penned during lockdown, Sir Alan himself saying that this particular one was inspired by a BBC4 programme called 'A House Through Time', about a house and the resident's therein going back hundreds of years. Rather than the span of centuries, Family Album is enclosed to a window within Ayckbourn's lifetime. Simultaneously layering the inhabitants of the same living room through three…
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