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With a full programme for 2023 set to be announced in February, Norfolk & Norwich Festival  have today announced the first shows to go on sale for next year.

All new rehearsal photos have been released from this year’s highly anticipated pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Jude Christian and Sonia Jalaly, directed by Nicholai La Barrie.

Sherman Theatre presents TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM from 26th November – 31st December 2022.

A dazzling and heart-warming stage show charting the careers and relationship between Hollywood mother and daughter Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli is coming to the Epstein Theatre this month.

St Helens-born actor Michael Parr – best known for his role as an Emmerdale bad boy – is returning to his hometown next week to star in raucous comedy Rita, Sue & Bob Too! 

Leeds Playhouse is celebrating new work, new artists and new partnerships with an exciting programme of performances, workshops, conversations and social events from 7-12 November.

Mischief has announced the very first UK tour of Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, the writing (and performing) trio best known for The Play That Goes Wrong and BBC TV’s The Goes Wrong Show.

To mark World Ballet Day, Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced that Vadim Muntagirov, Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet, will perform the role of Prince Siegfried in the world's best-loved ballet, Swan Lake, at Theatre Royal Plymouth for two nights only on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th March 2

Caustic comedian Frankie Boyle is returning to Warrington next year as part of his new Lap of Shame tour which will take a sharp and cynical look at the bewildering state of the world.

Fairfield Halls has announced details of some of the exciting events, shows and activities coming to the venue this festive season.

This festive season, join Pinch Punch as they perform The Improvised Panto.

There’s no place like Curve this Christmas as the theatre reveals the full cast of its festive musical The Wizard of Oz.

Resurrecting Ancient Egypt: A Monumental Yorkshire Journey (Saturday 5 November 2022 to Saturday 18 March 2023) is a touring exhibition from Barnsley Museums, and has been designed and curated by Scarborough-based Egyptologist Professor Joann Fletcher, and commissioned from Jennifer Robertson LRPS a

Award-winning theatre company Metta Theatre and the team at Taunton Brewhouse have announced full casting and creative team for their brand-new circus musical extravaganza The Little Prince, playing at the Somerset venue from 6 – 30 December, with a press night on 7 December, and a Ukrainian capti

Tobacco Factory Theatres in Bristol have announced their Christmas cast for The Snow Queen which runs at the venue from 1st of December 2022 to 15th of January 2023.

Award-winning company, Ballet Cymru will make their much-anticipated return to Leeds' Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 November with a vibrant, fresh and innovative new ballet, DREAM.

Drag Royalty will werk* their way across the UK in 2023 with The Series 4 Tour of RuPaul's Drag Race UK.

Rehearsals begin for the long-awaited Christmas show for our younger audiences (4+), Belle and Sebastien - a lovingly reimagined take on the classic children's story by Cécile Aubry.

This Halloween, Liminal Stage Productions will chill audiences with their fast-paced and haunting Digital R&D Commission GREY MAN: A Stage and Screen Experiment, supported by The Space.

Birmingham Rep have revealed a host of new productions for their spring 2023 season, including a brand-new production of the stage adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel, Of Mice and Men.

Birmingham Hippodrome are looking for the next cohort of people aged 14 – 22 for their Young Advocates programme.

Award-winning stage sensation Carrie Hope Fletcher will be bringing her new debut solo tour to Glasgow due to phenomenal demand.

The sensational feel-good musical MAMMA MIA! is heading to the Yorkshire coast next summer for its biggest ever outdoor season of shows.

The final commission by Deborah Warner in her inaugural season as Artistic Director of Ustinov Studio will be ¡SHOWMANISM! A Concise Histrionic of Performance, devised and performed by Dickie Beau which will play the Ustinov Studio, Bath from 11 November to 10 December 2022.

Following on from the overwhelming success and national recognition of 'Titanic the Musical' last year, The Kings have announced that audition applications are now open for the 2023 Easter production of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'.