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A brand-new partnership has been confirmed between Birmingham Royal Ballet and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, which will see the two established companies combine creative ingenuity to stage new dance works in the heart of Birmingham city centre.

In celebration of the paperback publication of The Testaments, Margaret Atwood's riveting sequel to her dystopian masterpiece The Handmaid's Tale, Fane Online have announced an exclusive live streamed evening of Atwood in conversation.

The visual impact of Noël Coward's life and work will be celebrated in a major exhibition at the City of London Corporation's Guildhall Art Gallery later this year.

Across the first four Saturdays in October 2020, the unmissable Camden Oktoberfest present a series of socially distanced Oktoberfest celebrations.

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester and Piers Cottee-Jones have released rehearsal photos for their new outdoor production of the Kander & Ebb musical revue The World Goes ‘Round.

Following the reopening of its bar and café and the launch of 'Live at Bristol Old Vic', Bristol Old Vic has shared further plans for its programme, designed to suit the flexible performance spaces within and outside of the theatre's foyer.

Wise Children, Bristol Old Vic and Plush Theatricals announce that Emma Rice's critically-acclaimed musical adaptation of Romantics Anonymous will be performed at Bristol Old Vic, and broadcast live, direct to audience's homes nationally and globally.

A season of new plays and musicals are to get their world première as part of 'Riverside Reads', a series of read-through events at Riverside Studios on the first Tuesday of every month that will also be streamed live online to a global audience.

A world-weary traveller arrives home after many years away.

Guildford Fringe Theatre Company's production team is busy working on the final preparations for its forthcoming show, Pinocchio Gets Wood the ONLINE Adult Panto, which will run from Thursday 10 a?' Saturday 12 September.

Queens Theatre Barnstaple has suffered damage after torrential rain flooded Barnstaple Town Centre.

Open Bar Theatre is partnering with Fuller's for their fifth year of 'Shakespeare in the Garden'.

VICE Studios, the global production division of VICE Media Group (VMG), is adding Alex Moore, former CEO of a two-time Academy Award-winning production company, to the newly created role of VP, Non-Fiction based in London.

Immersive Everywhere today revealed further details for Doctor Who: Time Fracture, a new immersive theatrical event from the team behind The Great Gatsby, the UKa??s longest running immersive show.

Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse have created their first Diversity Action Group to take forward the theatresa?? commitment to diversity, equality, inclusion and social justice.

Leading production company Fane are delighted to announce the latest names to be added to their stellar programme of online 'in conversation with' streamed events, with Nigella Lawson, Matt Haig, Eddie Hearn, Jeremy Vine, Erica Davies and Jodi Picoult.

Adapted from the award-winning The Shape of the Pain (Scotsman Fringe First), this new short film created in isolation is a powerful and intimate insight into living with a rare, synesthetic chronic pain condition.

Amplifying the voices and stories of Black women, Burn Bright have commissioned five Black writers to lead the next instalment of their acclaimed digital anthology series, Better In Person.

What is more fitting story during Covid-19, than that of a man called Murdo who takes to his bed for metaphysical reasons? What will get him out of bed? he cast of Lazybed, directed by Levi Gore hails from Albuquerque, Austin and Atlanta!

As theatres remain closed, The Far Away Plays have been holding weekly Zoom play readings of contemporary Welsh plays and organising free online workshops for actors and theatre creatives in Wales.

Luke Wright returns to the Norwich stage for the first time since 2019 at Interlude.

Five months after its forced closure on 17 March, Bristol Old Vic is set to reopen with a series of experimental performances this August and September.

The first episode of The Good Enough Mums Club Podcast is now available, reaching mothers all over the country with the message that sometimes being good enough is best.

Birmingham-based theatre company Powerhouse Theatre will present their very first LIVE Zoom play, White Noise, which will be performed at the end of the month.

From the team who created the Gate's critically acclaimed production of Dear Elizabeth, Letters is a funny and often moving reflection on the global situation we find ourselves in.