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Winners of the 13th annual Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year (SSSSPOTY) and the 12th annual Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize were announced last night at a gala held at Theatre Royal Haymarket, hosted by Joanna Riding.

This July, Bristol Old Vic's newest generation of Made In Bristol, will take to the Weston Studio with their debut show, Off-Peak, an absurd piece of comedy about a global happiness campaign group.

Following huge demand for tickets, Only Fools and Horses The Musical at the Theatre Royal Haymarket has been extended for a further five months until February 2020.

A revival of Alan Ayckbourn's classic comedy Season's Greetings opens at the Stephen Joseph Theatre next month.

This summer Sam Bradshaw Productions has teamed up with Chickenshed to present a brand new musical adaptation of David Walliams' acclaimed best-selling book, 'MR STINK'.

Back with a bang for its third edition this July, is the opportunity to experience things differently at Waterside during Refract:19 .

Nick Thomas, Chairman and founder of Qdos Entertainment Group - a leading UK theatre operator and a prolific theatre producer - has been awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Internationally acclaimed aerial dance company Gravity & Levity presents its celebratory tenth birthday edition of the annual European Aerial Dance Festival (EADF) from the 5th to 17th August 2019 at The Point, Eastleigh with thanks from support by Arts Council England.

Casting has been announced for the new musical 'Perfectly Ordinary' at the Hope Mill Theatre this July.

Wild-haired comedian Milton Jones is promising gloriously daft nonsense when he visits Warrington next year.

Troupe today announces the full cast for The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson which transfers to Wilton's Music Hall, following its sold-out run at Southwark Playhouse last year.

Prolific playwright David Edgar is directed in his professional performance debut by triple Fringe First Award-winner Christopher Haydon in a solo show considering the legacy of the events of 1968.

When Chris Thorpe performed his one-man show Status at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe, he claimed, provocatively, it wasn't about Brexit.

A momentary attempt at revenge goes completely awry in this Korean social satire.

In a heart-warming tale about finding your own form of heroism, a young man, struggling to feel good enough in his own relationship, is suddenly thrown into the starring role of his own disaster movie.

As America begins to recognise the problems of mass incarceration, this intensely researched show takes the issue one step further to ask how it can deal with mass reintegration, especially for those inmates who have faced months or years in solitary confinement.

Britain's Got Talent semi-finalists 'The Jive Aces' had the honour of performing during Prince Harry's visit to London's Royal Hospital Chelsea in yesterday's poignant D-Day commemorations.

Directed by double Fringe First Award-winner Ria Parry, E8 is a searing examination of life in an alternative provision school.

Described by the New York Times as 'Our Town with sex offenders', this daring play with music is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the inhabitants of Miracle Village, a rural American community of sex offenders.

Marking the first time the Central Library has been used as a pop-up venue for Edinburgh Festival Fringe, SLIME will bring The Herd Theatre's playful storytelling adventures to the heart of Edinburgh for young children and their families.

Armed with just a chair, Lewis Doherty uses physical theatre to embark on an epic quest immersing the audience in a larger than life,Game of Thrones-style adventure.

Multiple Fringe First Award-winner Chris Goode returns to the Fringe with a new solo performance that uses the life and death of River Phoenix, and his iconic portrayal of a street hustler with the sleep disorder narcolepsy, as a lens through which to look back on the turbulent experience of coming

Played by a male and female actor who alternate performances, this solo retelling of the Scottish Play uses puppetry, music and dance in a highly visual and viscerally physical show.

Told through puppetry, music and live magic - and by an international team of creatives from the UK, the USA and Korea - this quirky family show features two unlikely accomplices who fall into a children's book.