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As the leader of the free world ends his eight years in office, a black middle class family risk losing their beloved hotel and cherry orchard, where Martin Luther King once rested and Miles Davis played.

On Saturday 29 October 2016, AMUSED MOOSE, Soho's award-winning comedy night out, will take place once more.

???????Following its sell-out pilot run in Liverpool, the brand new version of the comedy drama The Ruby Slippers, set in a fictional Blackpool drag club is to premiere at the world-famous Funny Girls in Blackpool next month, before moving on to St Helens and Liverpool.

Geoids Musical Theatre have announced a new production of Cy Coleman's multi-award winning musical comedy On the Twentieth Century which comes to London for a limited run at the Bridewell Theatre from 25 to 29 October 2016.

Today, Parents in Performing Arts (PIPA), a Consortium of 18 leading Industry organisations, announces its first major piece of work, a Best Practice Action Research Project.

Throughout October, Coventry's Belgrade Theatre will be proudly supporting Black History Month with an exciting programme of events including talks, workshops, a photography exhibition and a concert celebrating the diversity of Coventry's communities.

Earlier today, the Academy of St.

West End Bares looks back to September when Graham Norton, Samantha Bond, Michelle Visage and David Bedella alongside a host of performers took to the stage of the Novello Theatre for the seventh annual West End Bares, raising money for MAD Trust!

Following its sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 2016, musical comedian James Wilson-Taylor is back at the Leicester Square Theatre with his brand new show GINGER IS THE NEW BLACK - a one man musical comedy that takes a hilarious, sideways look at the history of redheads, and how stereotyping has affe

???????Sheffield Theatres are throwing open their doors for their annual Fun Palaces weekend from Today 1- Sunday 2 October.

The Pheasantry has announced its October lineup at Kings Road, London.

An arts collective determined to make art more accessible and inclusive have unveiled two new exhibitions as part of Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival.

The first class revival of Mart Crowley's ground-breaking play, THE BOYS IN THE BAND, opens at Park Theatre in London this autumn, then tours to The Lowry, Theatre Royal Brighton and West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Greenwich Theatre boss James Haddrell is feeling like two men following the sell-out success of the first ever show at the theatre's new studio space.

The award-winning Canal Cafe Theatre and Russell Lucas announce an exciting new season of American Theatre.

Casting is announced for the first production in the year-long collaboration between the award-winning Canal Cafe Theatre and Russell Lucas, America: Past.

The White Bear Theatre, recently reopened following a £1.

Kandinsky, renowned for staging real, often dark subject matter with their innovative, distinctive use of movement and visuals, will tackle the contentious topic of psychosomatic illness and Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) in brand new production Still Ill, running 1-19 November 2016 at the N

Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East, Kerry Michael today announces the cast for the company's annual pantomime -  Sinbad the Sailor by Paul Sirett.

Award-winning Director and Choreographer, Arthur Pita, in collaboration with HeadSpaceDance, presents the world premiere of STEPMOTHER / STEPFATHER, a wickedly gruesome and darkly surreal double bill for the Halloween season.

Not seen in the UK since 1992, Moby Dick! The Musical is now back.

Following their one-off theatrical re-staging of Ken Loach's seminal work Cathy Come Home at the Barbican in July of this year, the award-winning theatre company Cardboard Citizens has announced a brand new touring production for October, Cathy, based around similar themes.

This monologue from the enigmatic Scottish performer tells the story of one boy's grandad who won a fortune betting on the 1966 football World Cup and, when diagnosed with cancer, gambled it all on living to see the year 2000.

Record-breaking Thriller Live announces a new West End booking period to October 2017; a new Thriller Live tour hopes to have audiences dancing in the aisles across the UK and Europe from January 2017 - and the show opens tonight in the People's Republic of China, chosen as the opening production

The From Page to Stage season of new musical theatre has announced the casting for its three semi-staged readings: Whatsonstage Award nominee Beverley Klein (Platonov, Ivanov, National Theatre; Candide; ENO), Ian Reddington (EastEnders; Coronation Street), Gerard McCarthy (Beautiful Thing; Hollyoa