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Hope Mill Theatre is calling for any final submissions for its new playwriting prize that launched earlier this year, which includes the opportunity of mentorship with writer Jonathan Harvey for the chosen finalists.

This Christmas, Tron Theatre Company will bring back the much loved, Ali the Magic Elf - as a live show captured on film for viewing at home.

Writers' platform Untitled, has today launched the second full issue of their global online journal: Untitled: Voices, which features work from 53 emerging underrepresented writers from around the world.

Daniel Brine Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Norfolk & Norwich Festival has confirmed that the 2021 Festival will take place between 14 – 30 May.

This festive season, audiences are being asked to Save A Seat as part of a new fundraising campaign by Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Birmingham Royal Ballet.

The cast album of the hugely acclaimed musical Flowers for Mrs Harris, recorded by the Chichester Festival Theatre company, will be released on 3 December.

There's no need to wait until May for culture in Coventry! Proforca Theatre Company return to the Albany Theatre Studio after Lockdown with AAAAA (FiveA), a brand new piece of theatre which will be performed for one night only in Coventry as part of its London premiere in 2021.

Award-winning family theatre company Tessa Bide Productions have adapted their successful interactive live show, The Anarchist's Mobile Library, into an interactive audio and British Sign Language (BSL) adventure for children and their families to play from home.

After a 5-star sold out run in October, 'how to live a jellicle life: life lessons from the 2019 hit movie musical 'cats'' is back her at the Lion and Unicorn to makes sure we all get a jellicle Christmas.

Due to overwhelming demand, Sasha Regan's award-winning All Male 'The Pirates of Penzance' will run for a second night at the Palace Theatre London.

Following on from the fun-sized pantomime Nurse Nellie Saves Panto (Friday 11 December - Sunday 3 January), the season will be a rich mix of music, comedy, dance and drama, designed to lift your spirits and celebrate the shared experience of live performance once more.

Broadway On Demand will present the first-ever streamed production of Jason Robert Brown's Drama Desk Award-winning musical, The Last Five Years, recorded live at the Southwark Playhouse, for five performances only this Thanksgiving weekend, Thursday, November 26 - Sunday, November 29 only on Broadw

Adjusted for Covid constraints, next year's festival will concentrate on live and online workshops led by top industry professionals, a series of specially commissioned short films to be shown online, a collection of rarely shown physical comedy and slapstick movies at Barbican Cinema 1, plus Zoom t

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester, the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield and the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich have today announced that following overwhelming critical and public acclaim their digital co-production of Henry Filloux-Bennett's reimagining of Jonathan Coe's critically acclaimed sa

Darlington Hippodrome in association with The D Project is running regular online sessions available to all ages in a move to keep people active in body, mind and spirit during November.

Garsington Opera has been given the go-ahead for a new £14 million rehearsal centre.

Burn Bright's digitally commissioned anthology series Better In Person returns this winter with a northern-centric instalment, partnering with acclaimed venues to amplify the voices of northern writers who identify as women.

Today, Sheffield Theatres and Evolution Pantomimes announce the cast for Damian's Pop–Up Panto! at the Crucible Theatre.

Joining the cast of The Understudy, which will once again raise funds for the UK's theatre industry, is Matthew Horne, Emily Atack, Adelayo Adedayo, Lucy Briggs-Owen,  and Jake Ferretti.

Anthology Theatre, in association with Riverside Studios, presents the 60th anniversary production of Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Happy Days.

Leicester's Curve theatre has revealed new dates and further casting for its upcoming season of socially distanced performances.

Panto's back.

Due to popular demand after its initial return in August, CROOKS 1926 - the first immersive experience to re-open in London after lockdown, where the audience has complete autonomy to shape their own adventure – will now extend into 2021.

Katy Lipson of Aria Entertainment and Adam Lenson of Adam Lenson Productions are joining forces to commission a new musical from writers based in the United Kingdom.