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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.

The classic family musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns to Birmingham Hippodrome next month from Tuesday 2 - Saturday 13 July.

Not Black and White explores the multiple pressures, both real and perceived, placed on women of colour through the eyes of a young woman trying - or not trying - for a baby.

The Big House today announces week-long extension, due to popular demand, of the critically acclaimed Bullet Tongue Reloaded, a promenade piece through the charity's new building in Islington, until Saturday 22 June.

Gwendoline Christie, Oliver Chris, David Moorst and Hammed Animashaun lead the cast as Titania, Oberon, Puck and Bottom in Nicholas Hytner's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Bridge Theatre's immersive format running to 31 August 2019.

The sensational feel-good musical MAMMA MIA! will return to The Bristol Hippodrome for a three-week run from 2nd - 20th June 2020 as part of a UK & International Tour celebrating 20 years since MAMMA MIA! premiered in London in April 1999.

Acts are now announced for a brand-new Comedy Festival from the Royal Shakespeare Company, in association with Underbelly, including award-winning doctor-turned comedian Adam Kay, Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Bridget Christie, 'one-man opposition party' satirical impressionist Rory Bremner, surreal

Dan Looney, Adam Paulden and Jason Haigh-Ellery for DLAP Entertainment are delighted to announce full casting for the Tony award winning musical CURTAINS which stars the previously announced Jason Manford as Detective 'Frank Cioffi' coming to Darlington Hippodrome later this year.

Pandora Colin, Ben Cura, Tory Kittles and Emma Paetz will make their Chichester debuts in Nicholas Wright's new play 8 Hotels, which Richard Eyre directs at the Minerva Theatre from 1 - 24 August (press night: 7 August).

Director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O'Hare today announces that Marcelino Sambe has been promoted to Principal dancer, the highest rank in the Company.

The West End production of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen has announced a new block of tickets will become available Monday, June 10.

Actor and comedian Nigel Planer will star as Grandpa in the first ever stage adaptation of Grandpa's Great Escape, the exhilarating number one best-selling children's book by David Walliams which will tour UK arenas this Christmas.

In celebration of Helen Forrester's 100th birthday, a blue plaque is to be erected outside the late author's family home in Hoylake, Wirral.

The Grange Festival 2020 season, announced today on the opening night of their 2019 Festival, is set to start on 5 June 2020 with an exciting new programme of opera and dance at The Grange, Hampshire.

Following the huge success of their Dionysian dining experience Divine Proportions, Shotgun Carousel return to The Vaults with their new masquerade ball, Red Palace.

The self-appointed guardian of Inishfree's moral welfare.

Richard Harris's much-loved comedy Stepping Out will have audiences dancing on air this summer at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre.

Britain's Got Talent winner George Sampson joins Shirley Ballas in this year's GIANT family pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk.

Preparations are in full swing for a glorious Summer of Shakespeare in York, as building work commences on the award-winning SHAKESPEARE'S ROSE THEATRE at the foot of historic Clifford's Tower, which will once again be home to four outstanding productions of Shakespeare's most popular plays this sum

A new Warrington exhibition reveals the town's little-known connection to the Hubble Space Telescope.

After a launch event in March which saw a range of local businesses and residents sharing their aspirations for Woolwich's Bathway Theatre, WHAT ABOUT US - the University of Greenwich's packed programme of shows and participatory events at their Woolwich venue, supported by the Royal Greenwich Commu

In just one week's time, the stories of over fifty members of the armed forces community from across the West Midlands will be presented in the world premiere of a new play.