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Popular storytelling event True Stories Live and Future Radio have made an exclusive arrangement that will see the community radio station broadcasting stories recorded at the monthly Norwich Arts Centre event.

A new Southbank Centre exhibition, Concrete Dreams, is announced today, bringing to life the creative spirit of iconic arts venues, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room and celebrating their public reopening after two years of extensive restoration and redesign.

Chorlton Arts Festival returns from the 18 May - 3 June 2018.

Stephen Dillane and Conor Lovett star in the UK premiere of the first staging of Beckett's novel, How It Is (Part One), from Gare St Lazare, one of Ireland's pre-eminent interpreters of Beckett's work, who return to the Coronet following the Beckett In London festival in 2016.

A hilarious classic comedy, the UK regional premiere of a Tony Award-winning musical and a chilling ghost story.

A treat for 2018's edition, Eastern Electrics Festival is extending it's offering into a full weekend affair, now running across 4th and 5th August at Morden Park.

Park Theatre today announce their new July - December 2018 season.

This May, Mikron Theatre Company will mark the 100th anniversary of women in the UK being allowed to vote, with the premiere of Revolting Women -Vashti Maclachlan's new play about the suffragette story as seen through the eyes of the political activist and campaigner for women's rights Sylvia Pankhu

BIN LADEN: THE ONE MAN SHOW has won awards from Los Angeles to the Edinburgh Fringe, and now arrives at Tron Theatre this April as part of a second UK tour.

Return Of The Unknown, led by The Marlowe in Canterbury, will take place at Dover Marine Station in November 2018.

Dusty and The Shades Of The 60's is a brand new musical stage show coming to Liverpool's Epstein Theatre on Wed 16 May and celebrates the life and music of the great Dusty Springfield and her contemporary peers.

Mercury Theatre Colchester and TBO Productions present the world premiere of their brand-new musical - Pieces of String, with book, music and lyrics by Gus Gowland.

A View From the Bridge is the second production in the inaugural Factory Company season at Tobacco Factory Theatres.

Casting announced for 'Closets' includes Natasha Hamilton, Sam Retford and Lloyd Daniels.

This bold new production, by Scott Graham, Karl Hyde and Simon Stephens, focusing on contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions, premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre as part of Manchester International Festival.

Arriving onto the Opera House Manchester stage this 28-29 April, English National Ballet and English National Ballet School are to present a new version of the well-known classic, Swan Lake, as part of its delightful My First Ballet series.

Sherlock star Amanda Abbington and Sunset Boulevard leading man Danny Mac are the first stars to be announced for the UK premiere of the musical A Little Princess by Tony-nominated composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (Big Fish,The Addams Family, The Wild Party).

Now in its fourth year and the brainchild of Birmingham-based flamenco artist, choreographer and producer Ana Garcia, Flamenco Edition 2018 presents the North West premiere performance of Sinergia starring Manuel Liñan, one of Spain's most celebrated flamenco artists with his company of singers and

With just 4 weeks to opening night a local theatre company is finding that musical theatre can be a bit of a drag.

Perfect for all the family - English Youth Ballet presents its charming production of Coppelia at Darlington Hippodrome on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 April featuring international principal dancers and 100 talented, local young dancers.

The acclaimed BBC Big Band will be raising the roof of Darlington Hippodrome on Tuesday 10 April.

Legendary charity production WEST END EUROVISION, which is returning for the first time in four years on Sunday 22 April, today announces that the evening will feature two epic performances by this year's UK entry, SuRie, and musical theatre leading actress Lucie Jones who represented the UK in 2017

As football fever is set to sweep the nation when the FIFA World Cup starts in Russia this June, the much-admired Leeds theatre company tutti frutti is delighted to announce that it will be celebrating the beautiful game by staging the premiere of Keepy Uppy, a new play by the award-winning playwrig

Rose Theatre Kingston, Granville & Parham Productions and Antic Face present Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare.

WICKED, the award-winning West End and Broadway musical that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, makes a spectacular return to the Birmingham Hippodrome from tonight for a sell-out four week run until Sun 29 April 2018.