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BalletBoyz, the multi award-winning dance troupe, has released production images today for Deluxe, its all-new, live dance show in celebration of the company's 20th anniversary year.

Following on from the success of Britain's Got Talent 2018 and his debut comedy tour in 2019, the unique and hilarious musical comedian Robert White is hitting the road in 2020 with a brand new show a?" The Tank Top Tour - TAKE 2 - and has added a London date at The Bloomsbury Theatre in June.

In 1968, Night of the Living Dead began life as a low-budget independent zombie horror movie telling the story of seven strangers taking refuge from flesh-eating ghouls in an isolated and deserted farmhouse.

Emerging local arts collective Maokwo is set to host its official launch event We Are Maokwo at the Belgrade Theatre next month with a day full of workshops and artists' networking opportunities taking place on Saturday 14 March.

Created for the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Cheek by Jowl present their first Italian language production; Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, in a new translation by Stefano Massini (The Lehman Trilogy).

A new batch of Fringe favourites, including Paul Merton, NewsRevue and Wizard Presents, are now on-sale as they get ready to take to Pleasance's stages this summer.

For Takeover week 6, Sabrina Mahfouz (A History of Water in the Middle East, Royal Court) will use The Bunker as a platform for conversation with this double bill of works exploring issues around abortion, miscarriage, surrogacy, still-birth, infertility and shame.

Fewer Shakespearean characters have caused as much uncertainty as Hamlet's mother, Gertrude: a side-lined female in a canonical story; a shadowy icon of mid-life sexuality; a fearless woman whose power was consistently undermined by the men around her.

Ahead of the 20th annual WhatsOnStage Awards this Sunday, 1 March, at the Prince of Wales Theatre - hosted by Jodie Prenger and Tom Read Wilson, and for the first time this year broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 hosted by Elaine Paige and Paddy O'Connell a?' WhatsOnStage announce the presenters of the i

Alexandra Palace's Creativity Pavilion opened today (25 Feb) providing a new home in the recently developed East Wing of the building for the charity's Creative Learning programme.

Nottingham Playhouse has revealed the cast of upcoming wartime tale Private Peaceful.

Rehearsal images have been released for The Mikvah Project opening at Orange Tree Theatre on 3 March.

Jonathan Taylor Productions announces Jean-Paul Sartre's The Respectable Prostitute directed by Lisa Forrell.

Jason Manford is back! It's been a busy few years since Jason's last smash-hit stand-up show, but fans of his Absolute Radio show will know this nationally acclaimed comedian hasn't changed a bit - and he's returning to Storyhouse in Summer 2021.

The Metropolitan Opera today announced that the Met Orchestra will tour Europe in the summer of 2021, immediately following its annual residency at Carnegie Hall.

In 2007 broadcaster the playwright Tommy Marren set up The Crokey Hill Club and to date has written four original Irish plays that have toured Ireland, the UK and America.

Aakash Odedra Company's next major project, Samsara, a collaboration between Odedra and Hu Shenyuan, premieres in the UK at Birmingham International Dance Festival on 11 June.

THE KING AND I is a testament to the lavish heritage of gloriously romantic musical theatre - it is the greatest musical from the golden age of musicals.

The Barn Theatre has released rehearsal photos for its upcoming Built by Barn production of the comedy Ben Hur by Olivier award-winning playwright Patrick Barlow.

Known affectionately as 'Tarby', JIMMY TARBUCK is one of Britain's favourite comics and returns to Wolverhampton Grand with his own show on Thursday 9 July.

A prestigious Blue Plaque has been unveiled at the childhood home of acclaimed author Helen Forrester, who penned a series of best-selling books including Twopence To Cross The Mersey.

The Playground Theatre has announced its early Summer season with three very different shows, traveling from ancient Greece, to 1940s America, to 1980s Paris.

Two-time SA Comic's Choice Award winner, Schalk Bezuidenhout is bringing his Edinburgh Fringe 2019 debut hour South African White Boy to the Soho Theatre in Spring 2020.

Following a successful run at HOME, Manchester, Switchflicker Productions today announce the London première and UK tour of Chanje Kunda's Plant Fetish.

TV regular Rupert Hill (Casualty, BBC; Coronation Street, ITV) will star alongside Phoebe Marshall (Witness for the Prosecution, London County Hall) in a sensual new stage adaptation of D.