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Headlong has announced the 2025 participants in their pioneering Origins programme, celebrating and developing early career theatre directors from across the UK, outside of London.

Unicorn Theatre, the national theatre for young audiences, and leading Black British theatre pioneers Talawa Theatre Company have announced the cast for Home Song.

This February and March, Futures Theatre will present the world premiere of Argos Archives.

The new British musical JANE will premiere with public workshop performances that offer a first look of Act 1 at The Other Palace Studio.

The full cast has been announced for the UK and Ireland tour of TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL, opening at Curve Theatre, Leicester in March.

Novelist Marian Keyes will come to Liverpool next month for a very special event at St George’s Hall.

The little-known story of a pioneering black fighter pilot who later worked with iconic French dancer Josephine Baker and American jazz legend Duke Ellington has inspired a new show by imitating the dog.

A year after his death, JW3 is celebrating the extraordinary life and works of the vital Jewish voice of Bernard Kops on Sunday 16 February at 7.

REVENGE: After The Levoyah - Nick Cassenbaum's outrageous comedy-heist about two twins, one ex-gangster, and a very messy plot to kidnap Jeremy Corbyn has added extra dates at The Yard Theatre.

A year after his death, JW3 is celebrating the extraordinary life and works of the vital Jewish voice of  Bernard Kops next month.

The cast has been announced for Too Many Books, opening at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in February, by award-winning journalist Judi Bevan.

London's Ministry of Sound continues to lead from the front with the arrival of URGE, a brand new and underground celebration of gritty, on-the-edge tech house.

Following an open recruitment process in 2024, Bristol Old Vic announced four new appointments to its Board of Trustees, alongside the appointment of new Directors to its subsidiaries and sub-committees.

The Rocky Horror Show is coming back to Milton Keynes as part of a major UK Tour, next month.

Have you ever really stopped to consider the significance of sound, of speech, on everyday life… on theatre? Many of us take these things for granted, yet Ad Infinitum’s new play throws the realities of being deaf into sharp relief.

A new play featuring music by the acclaimed singer/songwriter Billy Nomates is set to have its debut next month in Hull ahead of a transfer to London in March.

Kicking off the new year, Ambassador Cruise Line and the PEEL Entertainment Group have opened submissions for their new Ambassador PEEL Playwriting Challenge 2025.

Cassie Bradley and Barney White have been announced as the cast of Nick Payne’s One Day When We Were Young, presented by Greenwich Theatre in association with Park Theatre.

Wise Children has announced the full cast for the world première of Emma Rice’s adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest.

On Monday 13th January 2025, Young Company Members from the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT), in partnership with CORE Education Trust, Holocaust Educational Trust, and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, were invited to Buckingham Palace to meet His Majesty the King, King Charles.

Arcola Theatre has released photos from inside the rehearsal room featuring Nigel Cooke, Nigel Betts and Edward Hogg.

A Man and His Circumstance is written and directed by Tom Cain and produced by Tom Cain Theatre.

Full casting has been announced for the UK tour of Spitfire Girls, a new play by Katherine Senior which will premiere at MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton in March.

The New Vic will open their spring season for 2025 with a new production of Alison Carr's innovative theatrical ‘pub quiz', The Last Quiz Night On Earth, in February.

Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre will lcome four new Trustees to its expert and diverse Board.