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China Plate, Birmingham Hippodrome and Birmingham 2022 Festival have launched Soho Settlers, a Creative City Project featuring a new heritage walk and a series of audio stories and poems inspired by residents of the Soho Road and Handsworth.

Comedian Eshaan Akbar’s is preparing to embark on his first ever solo live tour with brand new show ‘The Pretender’ which kicks off in Bristol on the 23rd of February 2023 and concludes at London’s Leicester Square Theatre on the 28th April  2023.

TV dancing sensation and international champion Johannes Radebe will be presenting a brand-new production Johannes Radebe: Freedom Unleashed.

New English Ballet Theatre recently performed to capacity audiences at the Royal Opera House/Linbury Theatre before embarking on a series of summer festival dates during July.

To celebrate the arrival of the smash hit romantic musical comedy WAITRESS in town, Theatre Royal Brighton released new photos of the show’s three lead waitresses, Chelsea Halfpenny (Jenna), Wendy Mae Brown (Becky) and Evelyn Hoskins (Dawn) at the Theatre on New Road.

The WTG Playwrights Group has announced auditions for their Playwrights Showcase on Thursday & Friday, July 21 & 22, 2022 at 6 pm at the Burton Leavitt Theatre.

The Hamlet Voyage: A new play by Rex Obano, long-listed for the Alfred Fagon Award, has its world premiere on board the Matthew ship at the 50th Anniversary Bristol Harbour Festival 16-17 July, followed by its London premiere at the Bridewell Theatre 20-23 July with Press Night on Friday 22 July, 7.

Frantic Assembly hasa announced casting for its acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s Othello which will tour from this autumn, opening at Curve Theatre Leicester on 19 September.

You better watch out, you better not cry, because global drag icons and RuPaul's Drag Race stars, BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon are coming back to town with the wildly successful, internationally acclaimed The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show (Produced by BenDeLaCreme Presents).

Bristol’s Tobacco Factory Theatres have announced that Heidi Vaughan has been appointed as their new Artistic Director and Chief Executive, succeeding Mike Tweddle after six years in the role.

Hofesh Shechter Company and The BRIT School announced a new partnership which will develop a multi-stranded programme of activity as part of a shared commitment to increasing diversity and equal opportunities within dance and the wider arts sector.

New production photographs of the cast of the Theatre Royal Bath Productions, Birmingham Rep and Kenny Wax revival of Lyric Hammersmith Theatre’s universally acclaimed production of Bugsy Malone were just released.

​​​​​​​The UK's leading new musical theatre company for young people 11-21 years old has announced their 2022 season of summer performances filled with brand new musicals, adaptations, some returning BYMT shows and even dance led work.

A unique night for musical theatre REGENERATE: Lost Songs from the Musicals is a Livestreamed Online Gala Fundraiser in support of charity Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) in partnership with Musical Theatre Network (MTN), to take place on Sunday 18th September 2022 at 7.

After delighting audiences around the world with their international tour of The Sign of Four, Blackeyed Theatre will now bring to life The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's thrilling final Sherlock Holmes novel, in an electric new stage adaptation.

The Temptations and The Four Tops will be performing some of their most popular and award-winning songs that continue to inspire musicians around the globe.

New Adventures has announced the return of “Doorstep Duets” with two brand new short pieces for 2022: “Ding Dong” by New Adventures Dance Artist Sophia Hurdley and “High Tide” by New Adventures Dance Artist Daisy May Kemp.

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

Bristol School of Acting has announced a complete season of theatre productions staged at Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatres this autumn.

In a production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, Two Ukrainian Plays features Natal'ya Vorozhbit's Take The Rubbish Out, Sasha in a double bill with Neda Nezhdana's monologue Pussycat in Memory of Darkness, pairing Ukraine's leading contemporary playwright together with a Ukrainian playwright

Equity, the performing arts and entertainment trade union, has elected its President, Council (the union’s main policy forming body), Appeals Committee and Standing Orders Committee for the 2022-2024 term, with Lynda Rooke elected to serve as Equity's President for the first time.

D-Live! has announced BUP! Festival, the first-ever British Sign Language (BSL)-dedicated free arts festival in Medway, curated for Deaf children and their families.

The Lowry, Salford, is launching a callout for six independent artists or companies based in the North of England to join its 2022-24 Developed With programme.

St Helens youngster Jamie Leahey and his trusty side-kick puppet Chuck will join an all-star cast in his hometown's Christmas pantomime Cinderella.

Fairfield Halls General Manager Jonathan Higgins, and the whole team at BH Live, have announced two major classical concerts for early 2023.