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Based on lived experience, writer and performer Bettina Paris explores how the complexities of alcohol addiction can affect families and family relationships.

The cast of Naomi Westerman’s new play Puppy at the King’s Head Theatre has been announced including Ian Hallard (Doctor Who and Sherlock, BBC).

Gala concert QUEEN BY CANDLELIGHT will celebrate 50 years of Bohemian Rhapsody with over 25 of Queen’s biggest hits.

Darlington Hippodrome’s new term of Youth Theatre and Youth Dance classes are in full flow but it’s not too late to join.

Two weeks before we returned for classes, we had our Pippin auditions which I must tell you about in this introductory blog, to show you just how intense things have kicked off! And it’s only the start of the chaos.

DarlingtonOS has announced the full casting information for their next musical, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, coming to Darlington Hippodrome in April.

Birmingham Hippodrome is inviting audiences to experience a snippet of six unique musical theatre projects in development at its first ever New Musicals Showcase on Thursday 6 March.

Wolverhampton Pride will return for 2025 and the first act to be announced is QUEENZ the five star, electrifying, live, drag-extravaganza! Learn more here!

The finalists for the OffWestEnd Awards (Offies) have been announced, as the UK’s foremost awards for independent theatre mark their 15th anniversary.

Cirque du Soleil has announced that Geert Chatrou, the performer behind the whistling ringmaster in its acclaimed production Corteo has been granted the privilege of whistling inside London's historic Burlington Arcade.

After an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe, and fresh from supporting Jack Dee on tour, Alex Kealy (The Now Show, Gig Pigs with Ivo Graham) will bring The Fear on a tour between February and July 2025.

With the world première of Howard Brenton's Churchill in Moscow currently in rehearsals, Orange Tree Theatre has announced the full cast for the upcoming revival of April De Angelis' Playhouse Creatures directed by Michael Oakley.

Pagrav Dance Company will present the latest work of visionary choreographer and performer Urja Desai Thakore: her solo khatak piece ROOH: Within Her comes to Sadler's Wells Lilian Baylis Studio.

​​​​​​​South Korean dance icon Eun-Me Ahn brings her multi-media dance spectacular Dragons, presented by Dance Consortium, to Milton Keynes Theatre.

After four consecutive sold-out runs at Turbine Theatre, London's hit comedy COCKFOSTERS transfers to Southwark Playhouse Borough in April.

Playground Proms, the initiative that brings classical music directly to children via interactive workshops in their school playgrounds has announced its biggest tour yet.

Actor and comedian Ricky Tomlinson will return to head a talented cast of performers in the musical production which will play 30 venues across England, Scotland and Wales.

Paines Plough has announced programming for its star-studded 50th Anniversary Gala taking place in February at the Criterion Theatre.

Following a sell-out run at Glass Mask Theatre in Dublin, the world premiere production of Men’s Business by Tony and Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens will open at the Finborough Theatre in March.

Halifax's Northern Broadsides Theatre Company will present the grand finale to Iron People, an ambitious and imaginative community project celebrating nature and creativity of Calderdale.

The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, has launched 2025 with the release of its new season brochure, packed with a lineup of productions that promise to provide world-class entertainment to audiences in Gloucestershire.

Acclaimed Welsh playwright and actor Liam Holmes will return to the Union Theatre this February with his emotionally charged production Mr.

National Youth Dance Company will perform at the Berliner Festspiele Theatre as part of Tanztreffen der Jugend in Berlin in September 2025.

Following two successful UK and Ireland tours and sold out concerts at The London Palladium last year, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, The Musical Comedy will run at Birmingham Hippodrome in July.

Original Theatre, the British theatre company which this year celebrates 20 years of producing and touring work all over the UK as well as online, has announced the first in a brand new series of Original Conversations events.