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Culture Warrington is teaming up with Warrington Civic Society for its second public talk of the year, and this time the topic is A Virtual Tour of Victorian Warrington.

The Mercury Playwriting Prize, in this inaugural year, received over 160 entries from emerging local writers.

Women and War: EXODUS is a month-long multi-disciplinary festival examining the impact of war on women and the roads they take and the changes they make to rebuild their lives elsewhere.

The National Campaign for the Arts (NCA) has released a statement following the General Election.

The Merchant dynasty return to The Peacock with the internationally acclaimed musical, Taj Express, in a stunningly vibrant celebration of the glitz and glamour of Bollywood.

Some girls would do anything to be on stage.

Rose Theatre Kingston's Summer Schools are back, running from Saturday 22 Jul - Saturday 2 Sep, for ages seven - twenty-five, ranging from three days to a week.

Following sell out shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide this year, award winning comic Yianni returns to Edinburgh for his 10th solo Fringe show.

Like all of us, you've probably often thought that the one thing missing from John Robertson's terrifying live-action videogame T

The worse the world gets, the funnier Stuart Black gets.

'The Dunning-Kruger effect' is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is.

Nominated twice for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show and Total Fringe Sell Out 2015 and 2016, Sarah Kendall returns with her brand new show One-Seventeen - a blistering new hour of storytelling from the creator and star of the highly critically acclaimed hit BBC Radio 4 series Australian Tri

Edinburgh - are you ready to speak dance? Fans of Spinal Tap and Flight of the Conchords, say 'Hallo!' to your new favourite band.

Fringe First winner and science rapper Baba Brinkman (Rap Guide to Evolution) and neuroscientist Dr.

In Degrees of Error's hilarious and innovative Murder, She Didn't Write, the audience becomes the author as they are invited to help to create their very own Agatha Christie-inspired masterpiece - and to watch it unfold on stage.

In 1978 Richard Sparks wrote the Schoolmaster Sketch and gave it to Rowan Atkinson, who premiered it in Having a Ball at Hampstead Theatre.

Character comedian Maddy Anholt returns following five-star sell-outs at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Soho Theatre with Herselves; a brand spanking new and hilarious hour that delves into her surreal and sparkly world of character comedy.

The last couple of years have seen Kwame Asante have to embrace a lot of changes: becoming a Junior Doctor, moving away from London and juggling his doctoring with his stand-up.

Straight from the streets of Seattle, 14/48 WOLVERHAMPTON is landing at the Arena Theatre on June 16 and 17 and is set to showcase 14 plays over a 48-hour period.

Summer 1947.

The iconic, world famous Teletubbies, who this year celebrate their 20th anniversary are to star in their first ever live theatre show created especially for little ones, which will have its world premiere at the Palace Theatre in Manchester in November.

Nick Thompson Productions & The Heather Brothers present Holy Crap, a sacrilegious new musical comedy puts a sinful spin on evangelical television, featuring book, music & lyrics by The Heather Brothers.

From the directors of Brendon Burns' 2007 Edinburgh Award Winning show So I Suppose This is Offensive Now, no-filter white Aussie Brendon Burns is teaming up with charming ball of rage Craig Quartermaine to form the first white and Aboriginal Australian double act in history.

Award-winning darlings of the Fringe and recipients of over fifteen five star reviews, Flabbergast Theatre's Boris & Sergey present for your viewing pleasure an hour of explosive action, as dark as it is fun.

There is still time to enter the Holt Festival - Sir John Hurt Art Prize - but artists need to hurry as entries close at midnight on Sunday (18 June).