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Anna Hibiscus’ Song is a theatrical adaptation of the much-loved children's book by Atinuke.

The UK Choir Festival has announced its 2023/24 season, featuring three exciting events across London, Birmingham, and Manchester.

As Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater departs the UK following performances at the Edinburgh International Festival and Sadler's Wells, the incredible young dancers of Ailey 2 will embark on a 12-venue tour presented by Dance Consortium.

The full cast and creative team have been announced for Driftwood; an intoxicating and mystical new play by award-winning writer Tim Foley in a distinctive physical and cinematic production.

The first casting has been announced for the UK tour of Danny Robins’ edge-of-your-seat, supernatural thriller 2:22 - A Ghost Story.

 Jennifer Ellison is joining The Official Take That Musical GREATEST DAYS, with a book by award-winning playwright Tim Firth.

Award-winning north east theatre company, DarlingtonOS, has announced the highly-anticipated casting of the beloved musical Footloose.

Taking a Buddhist allegory and turning it into a dark satirical fable, East-Asian writer and performer Chris Fung's debut one man show addresses consumerism, existentialism and a need that can never be satisfied.

Mayflower Theatre has announced the launch of Elevate Ensemble, a ground-breaking new initiative aimed at providing young, underrepresented performers in Southampton and the surrounding areas with exceptional training opportunities.

Battersea Arts Centre has announced more unique and thrilling live performance for audiences to look forward to in 2023.

Following the announcement of its opening event, newly titled One City, A Thousand Memories, Birmingham Festival 23 has announced the full programme of events for the 10 day festival which takes place from 28 July - 6 August in Centenary Square.

Frantic Assembly has announced casting and the full creative team for its new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, a collaboration between BAFTA nominated poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay OBE  and Frantic Assembly’s Artistic Director Scott Graham.

After a sold-out performance at this year’s Wandsworth Arts Fringe in London, a witty new show based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor will be showing at Laurel’s in Whitley Bay for two nights only.

Punk rock musical LIZZIE is based on the infamous murder case of Lizzie Borden, who in the summer of 1892 was accused of brutally murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in Fall River, Massachusetts.

The Royal Opera House today announces that sadly Jonas Kaufmann has withdrawn from tomorrow evening's performance of Werther due to illness.

Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest has announced its next big art experience, L+A+N+D: an experience of discovery.

Factory International has released rehearsal images for the world premiere of They, a new adaptation of Kay Dick’s rediscovered masterpiece adapted by Maxine Peake, Sarah Frankcom and Imogen Knight.

Tony Award-winning actor Levi Kreis will make his UK debut in a one-off show in Manchester this summer in the intimate surroundings of Sonata Piano & Cabaret Lounge.

Sharing a powerful and tender exploration of our own relationships with food and nurture, Eating Myself shines a light on female identity through the lens of Peruvian society.

Birds of Paradise Theatre Company’s critically acclaimed Super Special Disability Roadshow is set to play two shows at this year’s Latitude Festival in July.

Reading Rep Theatre will be hosting their first Open Day event to celebrate the completion of their 10th anniversary season, Reading Rep: 10.

Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru (the Welsh-language national theatre company, also known as Theatr Gen) is thrilled to announce a new season of productions and projects up to spring 2024, including 8 shows, with 3 of them touring nationally.

After the success of Arcadia, The Questors Theatre will have more of Tom Stoppard's comic genius play out in the Judi Dench Playhouse with On the Razzle this summer.

Welsh-American business giant Sir Howard Stringer has made a gift of £2m to the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, to help it restore and transform Cardiff city centre’s landmark Old Library.

A British Bollywood musical following the story of a young British South Asian woman who is thrust into the dazzling bright lights of the biggest film industry in the world.