Nottingham Playhouse has revealed the cast for the world premiere of William Ivory's The Market Deeping Model Railway Club, featuring Babatunde Aléshé, Paul Bradley, and two-time Olivier winner Adrian Scarborough.
As New York prepares for the 2026 Tony Award nominations and honors the recent Lucille Lortel winners, producers are facing tough questions about whether traditional 8 PM curtain times are driving audiences away. The business landscape is shifting heavily behind the scenes, marked by the merger of licensing giants BMG and Concord, looming strike ballots in the West End, and the Kennedy Center's controversial two-year shutdown. Despite these logistical and financial challenges—including a devastating embezzlement case at a Pennsylvania community theatre—there is plenty of positive momentum to report, from the rapid financial recoupment of the Suffs national tour to new initiatives supporting theater education and large-scale playwriting.
The Mainstage Prize, a new £10,000 national playwriting award supported by Riverside Studios, launched with former RSC Head of New Work Pippa Hill chairing the judging panel. The inaugural theme is horror.
Pippa Nixon and Ken Nwosu will lead Shakespeare's Globe's production of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING as Beatrice and Benedick, directed by Chelsea Walker. Learn more here!
East Midlands theatre company New Perspectives announced 14 early- and mid-career artists for its New Associates programme, now in its seventh year, supporting artists in a historically underfunded region.
BalletBoyz will return to the stage with Still Pointless. The dancers will begin a major UK tour at London’s Sadler’s Wells. Check out rehearsal photos here!
Norwich Theatre will present a tour of 3 Migrant Women, a production created and performed by artists with lived experience of displacement, opening at Theatre503 London before touring to venues around the UK.
Nottingham Playhouse has announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of Jane Upton's Scenes from a Friendship, which due to popular demand, has already been extended by one week.
Birmingham Hippodrome announced ONE TINY PENGUIN, the third show in its My First Musical series, written by Jordan Li-Smith and Julie Tsang and directed by Laura Ryder, running December 5, 2026 through January 3, 2027.
David Shields, known for his Olivier-nominated role in PUNCH, has joined Go Live Theatre as a patron, supporting the charity's mission to bring live theatre to disadvantaged young people across the UK.
Birmingham Hippodrome and leading Midlands artist development organisation, In Good Company, have announced a new partnership. Learn more about the union here.
Mouth Studio and Grey Castle Productions in association with Park Theatre, have announced cast and creatives for their upcoming production of ROT. HUSK. LOSER.
Comedian LENNY HENRY will embark on his first live UK tour in over a decade with 'Still At Large,' beginning on 5 May. The tour marks a significant return for the performer.
China Plate and Fuel announced a new touring initiative, 'Touring Together,' featuring INUA ELLAMS' ONCE UPON A TIME IN SOKOTO as the inaugural production in collaboration with various UK venues.
Keith Brymer Jones and Marj Hogarth will embark on a UK tour with their new show US, POTS, AND A WELSH CHAPEL, featuring insights into pottery and personal stories.
White Noise Theatre will present SQUIDGE by Tiggy Bayley at Riverside Studios in London. The solo play is directed by Selwin Hulme-Teague and runs in March. Tickets are now available.
On the eve of its return to Nottingham Playhouse, following its West End and Broadway success in 2025, Nottingham Playhouse has announced that Punch will go on tour across the UK in 2027.
Christy Lefteri’s 2019 bestseller The Beekeeper of Aleppo is both a powerful and poetic story about the refugee experience. Her story of Nuri and his wife Afra's escape from Syria to England was inspired by time Lefteri spent working in a refugee camp in Athens. Syria may currently be seen as less newsworthy than it was, but the issue of people displaced from their homes and seeking safety elsewhere has rarely been more discussed. So why does this important and emotional story feel flat on stage?
At a ceremony at The London Palladium hosted by Gina and Mazz Murray, the winners of the 26th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards in association with AudienceView were announced.
The Beekeeper of Aleppo will come to Storyhouse next month in a new stage production from the team behind the West End and Broadway sensation The Kite Runner.
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