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Stepping into Hedda Beeby's shoes, Paul Hart is The Watermill's new Artistic and Executive Director.

Ian Seraillier's highly acclaimed and much-loved children's novel, THE SILVER SWORD, has been adapted for the stage and will visit Exeter at the end of October.

The cast has been announced for the Irish premiere of PUTTING IT TOGETHER by Stephen Sondheim this Christmas in Belfast.

DISCOVER your favourite comedian at the Alternative Comedy Show at The Marlowe Studio, Canterbury, next month (November).

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap continues its record-breaking, and first ever, UK tour in 2015 with a visit to Coventry's Belgrade Theatre this November.

Full casting is announced today for FAUSTAFF, a play inspired by the Faustian myth, set in the modern world and seen through the eyes of a female character, written by the Mexican playwright, Diego Sosa, which will run at London's The Cockpit Theatre from Wednesday 18th November to Sunday 6th Decemb

Gary Naylor sees an innovative take on Romeo and Juliet which gets plenty of laughs early on before a descent to murder and suicide.

A concert by Seven Kings at The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, on Sunday (25 October) has been cancelled.

The world-renowned Royal New Zealand Ballet make their Canterbury debut next month (November).

A major revival of Noel Coward's hilarious masterpiece, Private Lives will embark on a prior to the West End UK tour starring stage and screen stars Tom Chambers (Top Hat, Strictly Come Dancing) as the loveable and charming Elyot and Laura Rogers (Tipping The Velvet, An Ideal Husband) as the

17 years to the day since it first opened on Broadway, it is announced that worldwide smash hit musical Footloose: The Musical will burst back onto the stage in 2016, opening at The Spa, Bridlington on Friday 29 January 2016 prior to a six month UK Tour.

The Watermill has announced the full company for its upcoming production of Macbeth, which runs from 2 - 7 November, before undertaking a tour of local schools.

CASTING has been completed for the 10th anniversary of Greenwich Theatre's biggest and longest-running event of the year, the pantomime acclaimed by critics and audiences alike as one of the best in the country.

Any assumptions around the 800th anniversary celebrations of Magna Carta are bound to be shaken at Greenwich Theatre when the country's best-known historian David Starkey talks on the subject and engages the audience in a question-and-answer session next week.

Today Rose Theatre Kingston announces the casting for its Christmas production of Charles Dickens's enchanting story A Christmas Carol.

Green Day's explosive,Tony Award-winning Broadway musical American Idiot will now embark on a national tour from 19 March 2016, following on from its hugely successful and critically acclaimed West End run, which is currently running at the Arts Theatre, Leicester Square until 22 November 2015.

[Foreign Affairs] presents the world premiere of THE HELMER PROJECT, a powerful double-bill of gripping Scandinavian dramas that cut to the heart of the human condition, running Monday 2 November - Sunday 22 November 2015.

The Theatre503 Playwriting Award is back for its second year and will open for entries from 1st - 29th February 2016.

World-class opera returns to Canterbury next month.

Snow White to be given a Yorkshire twist in spectacular new version by Tell Tale Hearts and aerial theatre pioneers Pif Paf

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre (SDAC) today (Wednesday 21 October 2015) signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a new Chinese production of Henry V in 2016, premiering at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre in November 2016.

Homer's The Odyssey, staged on Thursday 12 November throughout London, and directed by the Almeida's Artistic Director, Rupert Goold and Associate Director, Robert Icke, concludes the theatre's groundbreaking season: Almeida Greeks.

Birmingham Repertory Theatre is off to Narnia this Christmas with a magical adaptation of C.

The Lyric Hammersmith today announces its Spring 2016 Season.

A Song for Syria Charity Gala today announced that an array of London's biggest stars from Film, Theatre, Music and Television are coming together for 'A Song for Syria', a one off performance on Sunday 25th of October to raise money for the Syrian Refugees.