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A special concert starring Patti Smith that aims to highlight the importance of the Paris Agreement is to be staged at Theatre Royal, Glasgow later this month.

Ghislaine Maxwell is in a cell awaiting trial.

With NW Trilogy by Moira Buffini, Suhayla El-Bushra and Roy Williams currently playing its final week, Kiln Theatre Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham announces the full company for Zadie Smith's The Wife of Willesden – joining the previously announced Clare Perkins in the title role are

Leeds' international performance festival, Transform, and renowned theatre company Quarantine are on the hunt for a dozen different local professionals for a one-off new show they are making to open at Leeds Playhouse this October.

Following their riveting and electrifying five-star play Delivery, acclaimed duo Andy Walker (The Story of Tracy Beaker) and Lesley Manning (Ghostwatch) have teamed up once more to present Love Dance.

Award-winning performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah has been revealed as Storyhouse's artist in residence for 2021/22.

Let the festivities begin, as LA CLIQUE makes its triumphant return to London's West End this Christmas with an incredible new show in The Leicester Square Spiegeltent.

Minty Fresh Productions today announce the return of Offie OnComm nominated Outside, written and performed by Gabrielle MacPherson.

Last spring, Acosta Danza's tour of the UK was cut short by the pandemic.

The UK's most exciting musical theatre group The Barricade Boys are heading back on the road in 2022, with their new Bring Him Home Tour.

The Word's Biggest Panto is back for 2021 with a spectacular arena tour.

Bristol Old Vic today announced the second in its series of exciting collaborations with some of the city’s best food spots.

One month out, Australian producers of the hit Whitney Houston tribute concert The Greatest Love of All starring Belinda Davids have confirmed that their UK national tour is on track to kick-off later this month as scheduled.

The College Academic Board gave Stella Kanu, Executive Director at LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre), an Honorary Fellowship of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance.

With her popularity soaring, the gig is not one to be missed by blues fans and the Parr Hall show could be one of the last chances to see Beth in an intimate concert hall before she crosses the pond to visit much bigger venues.

Matty May was conceived during a drunken one-night stand on his Nan's settee in July 1988 since then, he has tried to kill himself three times.

The London premiere of Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning Best Play comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, starring two time Olivier award-winner Janie Dee, will finally go ahead at Charing Cross Theatre.

Find out more about the show and how to get tickets.

The timeless music of Lionel Richie will have audiences at St Helens Theatre Royal dancing on the ceiling when a smash-hit show celebrating his incredible career comes to the town in January 2022.

Theatre Makers Matt Miller and Peader Kirk have come together to co-create a solo theatre performance, FITTING, drawing on spoken-word storytelling, autobiographical accounts and physical theatre to explore themes of identity and belonging.

The Board of the Belgrade Theatre is thrilled to announce the appointment of the new senior leadership, who will take up their posts in January 2022, succeeding outgoing Executive Director, Joanna Reid and Chief Executive and Artistic Director, Hamish Glen.

The cast has been announced for Punchy! The Musical, a brand new musical at The Courtyard Theatre.

Paul Taylor-Mills presents the return of the highly celebrated annual festival of new musical theatre, MTFestUK 2022, running from 31 January – 12 February 2022 at The Turbine Theatre in Battersea.

Following its sold-out, critically acclaimed production of 'Rent', Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre in association with Ameena Hamid Productions announces the cast for a radical new version of the 70s musical The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical “Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.

From West End producer, director, performer and choreographer Vikki Holland-Bowyer, and partner Greg Stevenson, the hit-packed production features back-combed hair, shimmying shoulder pads, wet-look neon leggings, the lairiest of leotards, indiscriminate double denim and 24-7 sunglasses – and that