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West End performers, Sharon Sexton (Mamma Mia, Bat Out of Hell, Billy Elliot, The Commitments) & Rob Fowler (Mamma Mia, Bat Out Of Hell, Rocky Horror Show, Jesus Christ Superstar) have released 7 lockdown concerts over the past year, including their headline show as part of the Tonight At The Colise

Leicester’s Curve has announced the 16 Midlands theatre-makers and companies who will join the theatre as Curve Resident Creatives.

Illustrator Nick Ellwood, whose wonderfully mischievous drawings feature in the Painted Hall Family Trail, will have a physical exhibition Mischief and Misadventure when guidelines allow, opening from May 2021.

Reading Rep Theatre today announces that it has reached its funding target and raised over £1 million for a new cultural arts hub in Reading.

Today the Royal Opera House has announced that it will once again open its doors to audiences on 17 May 2021, with a packed schedule of in-person performances from both The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera, brand new work available to stream online, and the world's first opera in hyper-reality.

Camden People’s Theatre will host four new digital, live and hybrid works to explore what forms theatre can take while venues remain closed.

English National Ballet School has announced a new partnership with CW+, the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to share the School’s performances to patients both in-hospital and isolating at home in the community.

After 143 live performances in the UK, the highly-acclaimed production From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, an homage and celebration of David Bowie, will be released worldwide as an audio book on all Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and all streaming services from Sunday 21st March.

Complicité theatre company has appointed a new, permanent Executive Director, Amber Massie-Blomfield, to take the company forward as the UK transitions out of lockdown.

St Helens Theatre Royal has announced that its Easter pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk will be streamed online to watch at home.

LAUGHNow Comedy Club is sponsored by Sky and will be an interactive experience, fans can joke with others using the live chat feature or watch with friends via LIVENow's Watch Together function.

The Globe is preparing to open again.

Birmingham Repertory Theatre has become the first major venue in Birmingham to announce the return of live performances this May.

Elmhurst Ballet School, the school in association with Birmingham Royal Ballet, has announced the following appointments to its Board: Mark Baldwin OBE, award-winning choreographer and director, and visual artist; and Brandon Lawrence, a Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal dancer.

This summer The Lord Chamberlain's Men, the UK's premier all male theatre company, present the breathless and brilliant tragedy, Macbeth.

The team at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith is taking its destiny into its own hands (and feet) this month as it embarks on a fundraising challenge to buy new seats for its flagship theatre, Studio 2.

Actor, presenter and winner of Strictly Come Dancing Ore Oduba (Curtains / Grease) will star as Brad Majors in Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show.

Battersea Arts Centre today announced a partnership with the NHS to become the community Vaccination Centre for Wandsworth.

tiata fahodzi, the UK’s leading British-African contemporary theatre company, has announced Chinonyerem Odimba as the new Artistic Director and Chief Executive as the company prepares for its 25th anniversary in 2022.

For adults, Manor of Lies is a Regency whodunnit pitting audiences against a villainous blackmailer to save notorious playboy Lord Dante Rochester.

After the announcement from the Government that theatres across the UK should be allowed to open on 21 June 2021, subject to conditions being met across progress in the suppression of the Coronavirus pandemic, Mark Goucher, CEO at Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham has decided to announce the return of tw

Casting has been announced for the upcoming online live read-through of Romeo & Juliet.

A group of British talent agents have joined forces to create a group that will tackle issues of race faced by actors of color in the U.

From Plato to Freud, witches to suffragettes, discover everything you never knew you needed to know about the history of hysteria.

Tim Minchin, award-winning comedian, actor and composer, has confirmed new UK dates of his BACK tour this autumn opening at Birmingham Hippodrome on 23 & 24 October 2021.