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Stars of this year's Grand Theatre pantomime Richard Cadell & Sooty went along to Dudley Zoo to open the Santa's grotto in a Winter Wonderland inside the castle.

Bill Kenwright presents the latest instalment in the hugely successful Classic Thriller Theatre Company.

The coming few months sees Australian-born, London based, conductor Jessica Cottis focus on one side of her musical life when she gives a series of world premieres of major new works leading up and into 2019.

Popular stand-up Ed Byrne is bringing comedy back to Warrington next year with a performance at Parr Hall.

Theatre Royal Winchester's traditional family pantomime Beauty and the Beast is now open and receiving rave reviews from audience members!

Nominees have been announced for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2018.

Giles Cooper Entertainment has announced that Kenwood House, overlooking Hampstead Heath in North London, will host a stellar line-up of live music concerts in summer 2019 within the splendour of its breath-taking gardens.

Best Of The Dirty Thirty 2018 is a curated collection of our best thirty original plays of the year, which Degenerate Fox will valiantly attempt to perform in just one hour.

On Friday 30 November 2018, former Crown Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal OBE chaired Performing Race at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Star of Live at the Apollo and Comedy Central at The Comedy Store, multi-award-winning comedian Chris McCausland is taking his smash hit Edinburgh Fringe show, Speaky Blinder, around the country for his debut national tour.

Calling all emerging artists! The Belgrade Theatre is now on the hunt for newly established performance companies and individual artists to join the second intake for its Springboard talent development programme, as well as a Trainee Assistant Director to work on its forthcoming production, Under th

Counting Sheep, the award-winning immersive Ukrainian folk opera, will headline VAULT Festival 2019, playing an eight week run from 23 January to 17 March, with a press night on 29 January.

Cardiff's Sherman Theatre will present Wales's best emerging talent to a London audience in its New Welsh Voices showcase at Theatre503 on 13 and 14 December.

Daniel Schumann, Lee Dean and Cambridge Arts Theatre in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre today announce an extension to the successful UK tour of Rebus: Long Shadows due to public demand.

Out of Joint, Hackney Empire and COMMON are inviting decision-makers in the theatre industry and young people from working-class backgrounds to an event taking place on 4th February 2019 at Hackney Empire.

As the Queen of Pop turns 60 this year, 'Material Girl' soars into theatres across the UK to tell the phenomenal story of one of the world's most prolific female singers.

Cheek by Jowl today announces the appointment of Niamh O'Flaherty as Executive Director.

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has announced the shortlist for its annual awards, to be presented by writer and actor Joanna Scanlan (The Thick of It, Getting On, Puppy Love) on Monday 14 January 2019 at the Royal College of Physicians in central London, in a special ceremony to mark the

After the success of its regular Baby Loves Disco Mini Roadshow, presented as part of its local community cultural programme, Shoreditch Town Hall announces the final family disco of 2018, Baby Loves Disco Mini Roadshow: Festive Boogie, taking place on Saturday 22 December at 10am, specially themed

The trustees of HighTide have announced today that they have appointed Suba Das, currently Associate Director of the Curve, Leicester, as the next artistic director of HighTide.

Liverpool is guaranteed to have a white Christmas as LHK Productions brings the fairest panto in all of Liverpool, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to The Epstein Theatre this week.

Performed by a mixed ensemble, including those who have recently sought refuge in the UK, Welcome to the UK has its world premiere at The Bunker this January.

The festive season is so close we can practically taste the advent calendar chocolate, smell the mulled wine, and hear the jingling of sleigh bells over the sound of Mariah blaring out the radio.

The curtain opened on a new act in The Marlowe Theatre's story on Saturday (1 December).

With the annual family festive pantomime, Aladdin, about to start its run of 50 performances, thoughts turn to Spring and an exciting season of productions at Darlington Hippodrome and the adjoining Hullabaloo.