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Cambridge Arts Theatre has announced that chart-topping legend Tony Christie will lead the cast of its 2017 family pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, in the role of The King.

Director of Assembly Hall Theatre, John Jackson-Almond today announced the all-star cast for the Christmas pantomime, Aladdin.

A Jane Austen classic, Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross's solo tour, and classical, jazz and electronic music make for an eclectic new season at the Capstone Theatre.

Talented teenagers from across Wolverhampton and Sandwell are being given the opportunity to perform their acclaimed hip-hop version of The Wizard of Oz, Groove on Down the Road, at the Birmingham Hippodrome for three nights from Wed 27 to Fri 29 September.

There's no time to snooze this October, with St Helens Theatre Royal promising a dazzling new production of popular panto Sleeping Beauty to entertain audiences young and old.

The Queen's Theatre Hornchurch is proudly celebrating Black History Month throughout October with a rich programme of live entertainment, celebrating the diversity in Havering's communities.

Dora, Actress with a Capital A, exhibits her menagerie of mad cap characters in this series of comedy monologues.

Audiences at Storyhouse will be looking on the bright side of life when the brand new production of Spamalot comes to Chester in four weeks.

This year's Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival will launch today 29 September with the announcement of the Open competition winners and a 'cultural crawl' tour of the venues.

Warrington will boogie the night away this September with a brand new music event to run alongside an old favourite at Parr Hall.

Rifco announces new comedy Pyar Actually (Love Actually), written by Rifco Associate Sukh Ojla.

Four years after the phenomenal success of their debut play 'Pheonix' - praised by critics, industry peers and audiences alike - The Big House is re-staging the play that launched them in 2013 in memory of one of the original cast members.

WICKED once again cast its spell over Bristol on Tuesday, when Elphaba defied gravity above the Floating Harbour as part of a special launch event at M Shed.

The King's Head Theatre has just announced they will be staging a radical reimagining of the classic opera Tosca from 27 September 28 October.

Following an exceptional career as a ballet star, international dance icon Carlos Acosta launches his brand new company, Acosta Danza in the UK.

According to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, half of people in poverty are disabled or live with a disabled person.

Presented for the first time since its world premiere in 1958 and celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 which decriminalised homosexuality in the UK, Quaint Honour by Roger Gellert runs at the Finborough Theatre, playing Sunday and Monday evening and Tuesday matinee

Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Paul Kaye, Sarah Niles and Danusia Samal have been cast in B by Guillermo Calderon translated by William Gregory and directed by Royal Court Associate Director (International) Sam Pritchard.

I REMEMBER comes to the Pleasance Theatre (Islington) this September as part of Litmus Fest.

Hackney Empire today announces casting for its highly anticipated 2017 Christmas pantomime, Cinderella, having last been staged at the venue in 2011.

Joe McElderry returns in his celebrated and critically acclaimed role in the sparkling family musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Ouroboros, written and performed by Charlotte Fox (Ecole Jacques Lecoq), is a riotous new solo play that satirises the disturbing consequences of today's growing culture of narcissism, ego, overconsumption and the extremes we go to in order to look and feel good.

MUSO aims to inspire and develop a new level of engagement between audiences, the arts, academia and museums.

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This November, Zest Theatre will be celebrating their 10th anniversary of creating work for, with and by young people.