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The National Theatre has announced today that Clint Dyer has been appointed Deputy Artistic Director.

In 2019, neuroscience writer Dr Dean Burnett and journalist Rachel England launched the Brain Yapping podcast, where they engaged in unplanned discussions of how the human brain works in surreal-but-recognisable situations.

The Royal Shakespeare Company is offering a large number of free Shakespeare-related resources to students currently learning at home, and to teachers looking to create lesson plans to deliver online.

Young Vic Taking Part has announced the conclusion of TWENTY TWENTY – their year-long in-depth creative enrichment project within their local community – with the online premiere of three short films starring the members of their TWENTY TWENTY community company.

In April 2021, the British Museum will host the first ever major UK exhibition on the life, death and legacy of Thomas Becket, whose brutal murder inside Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 shook the Middle Ages.

Directed from the piano by Lada Valešová, tenor Nicky Spence and the Navarra Quartet perform Pavel Haas's song cycle Fata Morgana Op.

Following the success of last Autumn's Dear Tomorrow, part of The Signal Fires project which celebrated the vibrancy of touring theatre across the UK, Actors Touring Company (ATC) has joined forces with Northern Stage for Dear Tomorrow – Hope From Home.

The Riga Jurmala Music Festival announces the 2021 season of the Riga Jurmala Academy.

The funding has been awarded to Storyhouse's award-winning programme that provides young people, including those who conventionally face barriers to employment, with work experience and a range of employability skills in the creative industries.

An all-star cast has assembled for an online reading of William Wycherley's 1671 comedy Love in a Wood, presented by Jermyn Street Theatre, conceived and directed by Hermione Gulliford, and performed in aid of Equity Charitable Trust.

Paul-Ryan Carberry, Artistic Director of Iris Theatre, today announces the online stream of Platform in the Gardens, a series of performances recorded in the gardens of the Actors' Church during the company's outdoor summer festival in 2020.

Original Theatre Company and Perfectly Normal Productions present the first revival of Barnes' People, a series of four theatrical monologues starring Jon Culshaw, Matthew Kelly, Jemma Redgrave and Adrian Scarborough and directed by Philip Franks and Charlotte Peters.

Less than three months into her role as Artistic Director, Natalie Ibu announces her inaugural season at Northern Stage.

'Breaking Up With Reality', presented by Nod At The Fox premiered at Living Record Festival 2021.

Join JMI's WORLD TOUR for an exclusive free online evening with stop offs in Morocco, Europe, the Middle East, USA and even Canvey Island.

The Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company will be hosting a live performance fundraiser streamed live over Zoom and Youtube on February 12th, 2021.

Set in the Instagram world of liking random images, what happens when social media becomes real?

Juliet Stevenson leads an all-star female cast in this streamed production of  Steven Carl McCasland’s dinner party drama, Little Wars.

Have you ever wanted to swing through the air like Spider-man? Have Wonder Woman's high kick? Or have Superman's laser eyes?  What if you could have all of them?! (theoretically)  Are you passionate about who's face is best - Captain America's or Thor’s? The answer to these and so much other non

Following a joint statement issued in summer 2020, ten of the UK's leading professional ballet schools have announced a unified message of support and reassurance today as hundreds of prospective students consider applications for places on programmes starting in September 2021.

A new online musical show for primary school children and their families, STEM Sisters focuses on historical female scientists and mathematicians whose work was so often unrecognised, but who contributed in so many ways to major developments in our lives today.

Pursued by a Bear shares the final instalment of Nothing On Earth: Shorts, a series of lockdown films created since Spring 2020, presented as part of Hertfordshire Year of Culture 2020.

Warrington town centre is being transformed into an exciting hub of creative activity, thanks to a new project from Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival.

The Casting Directors' Guild is delighted to announce two new committee members, Jane Anderson and Stuart Burt, and the formalisation of an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) working group, to promote and prioritise these values in the casting profession, both within the Guild itself, and the wor

The biggest trance festival in the world, A State of Trance, has reached a monumental milestone and is celebrating reaching 1000 episodes of the worldwide hit radio show.