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A newly renovated, multi-faceted 3,500 capacity entertainment space Forum Birmingham is ready to open its doors.

New dates are announced today for the return of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution at London County Hall on the Southbank.

Sonia Friedman Productions today announces the dates for the RE:EMERGE season as priority booking opens on 15 April at 10.

The producers of the highly acclaimed UK tour of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em are delighted to announce rescheduled dates in 2022.

Today, acclaimed UK touring theatre company Actors Touring Company and drama school LAMDA announce that they have appointed Ameera Conrad as their joint Associate Director as part of the Weston Creative Bursaries 2020 -22 programme, an initiative which aims to promote socio-economic diversity in the

Underbelly Festival is set to return to London this summer with a brand new home in Cavendish Square in the heart of Central London's Oxford Street District.

The programme for the 2021 Venice Music Biennale, one of the six Biennale di Venezia that showcase the best in contemporary Architecture, Art, Dance, Film, Music and Theatre, has been announced by Artistic Director Lucia Ronchetti.

The Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance, a program within the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts at Wayne State University presents Trivøya Gold, a new musical with book and lyrics by Alana Jacoby and music by Scotty Arnold.

Now, for 2021, England’s largest arts festival is back with the most exciting and unusual cabaret, circus and comedy, dance, drama and drag! In the spirit of invention that has always inspired the Fringe, this year will be a hybrid festival with a mixture of live and digital shows.

A socially distanced production of Forever Plaid will be back once more at the Gatehouse.

Paul-Ryan Carberry, Artistic Director of Iris Theatre, today announces full programme for their Summer Festival 2021, running in the courtyard of the Actors' Church, their home in the heart of Covent Garden from 21 June – 22 August 2021.

Today sees the launch of Unlock, which has been created by Inc Arts UK in collaboration with leaders across the creative sector.

Due to popular demand, the Barn Theatre have today announced that the world debut production of the British song cycle Now or Never will return for a three week on-demand digital run from 15 April – 9 May 2021.

Ben Forster will join the cast of the UK premiere of A Killer Party which will be released as a series of 9 episodes to watch on-demand, at home or on the go, bringing the very best of British stage and screen directly into your living room from 26 April – 23 May.

BBC Arts has partnered with theatres across the country to produce this unprecedented season of 18 plays for audiences at home.

The Royal Opera House will continue its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme, featuring online broadcasts that can be accessed by audiences around the world.

Following a year without live in-person audiences, Jermyn Street Theatre, winner of the 2021 Stage Award for Fringe Theatre of the Year, will light up again this May as it launches a three month celebration of drama, music, poetry and comedy.

Thames Festival Trust in London has received a grant of £59,562 from the Government’s £1.

Young singers will be the first to benefit from Opera North’s £18m redevelopment project in Leeds this summer as the Company prepares to open its new Education Studio in the heart of the city.

Storyhouse's Moonlight Flicks returns this summer with the largest and longest open-air season of cinema to date.

Dominic Hill's brutal and intense production of The Macbeths will premiere online in a bold new filmed version on Thursday 3 June at 8pm.

Set in Moscow 1987,  the cold war begins to thaw,  after declining his offer for more than 30 years, novelist Graham Greene travels into the heart of the Soviet Union to meet with his old MI6 boss, Kim Philby.

Wigmore Hall will welcome the return of live audiences on 17 May with a 25-concert re-opening festival culminating in a major celebration of the Hall's 120th Anniversary on the 31 May.

Waterside, Trafford's leading arts venue, is delighted to announce it is re-opening its doors for artists and audiences alike from Monday 17 May '21 with an exciting summer and autumn programme of live theatre, music, visual arts, comedy, dance and spoken word.

Today the Royal Opera House has announced more details of its schedule of in-person and streamed Spring and Summer performances, with public booking opening on 7 May 2021 and the doors opening to socially-distanced, in-person audiences from 17 May 2021.