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Award-winning comedian Aaron Simmonds has announced the debut of his second full-length show at London’s Soho Theatre.

Over the past six months leading UK touring theatre company Stockroom has been working with theatre freelancers across the country to produce six extraordinary films that chart the common experiences of non-salaried theatre workers during the pandemic.

Starring SIX's Grace Mouat, Bat Out of Hell's Andrew Patrick-Walker, Nicola Espallardo and Aidan Harkins, From Here premiered at Chiswick Playhouse 1st July and will run 7th August 2021.

The Royal Ballet is continuing its commitment to create opportunities for the next generation of dance professionals and today announced joiners for the 2021/22 Season.

10 to 4 Productions has announced new dates for the world premiere of Indecent Proposal; the new musical will now run at Southwark Playhouse from 22nd October – 27th November 2021.

American banker Nick Bright knows that his freedom comes at a price.

The new Garden Theatre will open this Summer with a reconceived version of The Comedy of Errors, one of Shakespeare’s earliest and arguably funniest plays, running from 13 July – 26 September.

Priority booking is now open for Stratford East Friends, members and access bookers.

Developed from Zucchetti's short work Scherzo (nominated for a Sky Arts Award and a Critics' Circle Dance Award), Anemoi brings together the sumptuous music of Rachmaninov with Greek mythology and soaring choreography.

Richard Chappell's first full-length production for a mid-scale stage, Infinite Ways Home sees six performers explore their perceptions of reality through other-worldly experiences, connecting ideas of Celtic traditions of ritual with modern day experiences of rave culture.

Inspired by memories of working as Donald Wolfit's dresser as a young man, Ronald Harwood's evocative, affectionate and hilarious portrait of backstage life is regarded as one of the most acclaimed dramas of modern theatre.

The Wind in the Willows is a beautiful and enchanting musical production written by Academy Award winner Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey) with music by the award-winning Stiles & Drewe (Mary Poppins), presented by the Turbine Theatre, London.

Opening festivities are focused on Cromer Street and a free outdoor spectacle with a procession including  Bengali silk banners, kinetic tigers, and musicians, and lightworks including neon sculptures by Chila Kumari Singh Burman and live video projection from street artist Mohammed Ali.

Joining the cast are Scott Paige (Uncle Fester), Ahmed Hamad (Lucas Beineke), Dickon Gough (Lurch until 27 November 2021), Ryan Bennett (Lurch from 18 January 2022), Roxanne Couch, Oonagh Cox and Joshua Robinson.

'We remain hopeful that we can open the show to capacity audiences, however, we will continue to review our response according to the Government's guidance in the coming days and weeks, along with guidance from our colleagues at Park Theatre.

'The Prime Minister’s announcement today that capacity caps and the need for social distancing in theatres in England will be lifted as part of Step 4 of the reopening roadmap is very welcome news for a sector that has been hugely impacted by the pandemic,' Morgan said.

After its initial run in the Northeast and Northern Ireland in 2019, the amazing story of Glenn McCrory and his terminally ill brother David was to be shown in April of last year as well as appearing at Newcastle Theatre Royal in what would have been the fastest-ever transfer to the North-East's pre

Kicking off this mini-season is an epic all-day, all-star performance, in which Artistic Director Tom Littler dramatises Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey as a staged reading in six parts by a company of eleven actors and six guest-star narrators.

Audiences will meet at Woolwich Common, a hidden London gem, and be guided in groups by a performer encountering nature as they go.

Coventry’s Criterion Theatre will open the Festival on the Sunday July 18, with a performance of “Queers - The Monologues”, by various writers but curated by Mark Gatiss, co-creator of the popular “Sherlock” tv series and who starred in it as elder brother Mycroft Holmes.

Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt.

A total of £600,000 will support 14 museums across the UK, including the Theatre Collection, to kick-start, scale up, and evaluate the innovations they so adeptly designed through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Klippies is Jessica Sian's acclaimed coming-of-age drama about an unlikely friendship and the intensity of first love set in modern day Johannesburg, and AI is a new play by Genesis Fellow and Young Vic Associate Director Jennifer Tang and Company, created using a deep-learning system to generate hu

Tickets are on public sale now, with discounted tickets available across the run for NHS staff.

Jack last toured a solo stand-up show in 2012, delighting sold out audiences the length and breadth of the United Kingdom and Ireland over a period of eighteen months.