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Maud Dromgoole's Acorn radically reimagines two mythic women in a play that explores the power of stories, and how we come to write our own.

An all-female cast has been announced for a thought-provoking and innovative new play, which tours the North of England this Autumn, co-produced by Black Toffee and Harrogate Theatres.

Three photographers have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016, the major international photography award organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Pink Martini, the internationally celebrated "suave salon orchestra" (New York Times) will be returning to British shores this Autumn for a series of spectacular shows that fuse their unique blend of jazz, world music, cabaret, lounge and 1940-50s film music.

comes to the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield from Monday 3 - Saturday 15 October, direct from its sell-out seasons at the London Palladium.

Fifty women will leave everything behind.

A watercolour collection of caricatures by Christine Jimenez.

Directed by world renowned director/choreographer Arlene Phillips,"27" is an intoxicating modern fable of our time, a dark interpretation of one of humanity's oldest stories.

Following its sell-out success, Magic & Mixology returns to the Vaults on September 10th.

The first official season (September 2016 - January 2017) from Little Angel Theatre Artistic Director, Samantha Lane will feature.

On Thursday 8 September, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre unveiled its new look to invited guests ahead of an official opening night on Saturday 10 September.

The award winning M6 Theatre Company's magical new production Mavis Sparkle, for children aged 4+ and families, is set to breeze into theatres this autumn from 8 October to 5 March 2017.

The NSA project is an exciting new division developed by the renowned North East productions company Nice Swan.

A brand new production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest launches Birmingham Repertory Theatre's exciting 2016 Autumn season.

?TV favourite Peppa Pig is bringing all her family and friends to the Lyceum Theatre in her brand new stage show Peppa Pig's Surprise! from Today 9 - Saturday 10 September.

After a barnstorming, sell-out run in 2015, the heart-stopping blend of cabaret burlesque, Australian machismo and punkish swagger returns to London this Autumn, running September 9  - 24, 2016.

?With an acclaimed revival of Legally Blonde still running in the theatre, Chief Executive Chris Stafford and Artistic Director Nikolai Foster announce a new season of Made At Curve productions for autumn and Christmas 2016.

Salisbury Playhouse and Bristol-based Living Spit present a new comedy adaptation with songs of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Following last year's record-breaking production of Aladdin attended by nearly 120,000 people, Birmingham Hippodrome is thrilled to play host to another unmissable pantomime production of the rags-to-riches tale, Dick Whittington, this Christmas season.

Following acclaimed runs at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival, Oxford Playhouse and 2015 VAULT Festival, Dawn State Theatre Company presents the UK tour of The Man Who Would Be King, an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's novella.

The producers of the multi award-winning smash hit Billy Elliot the Musical are delighted to announce that the four boys who will play the title role in the first ever UK and Ireland tour of the iconic musical are Adam Abbou (12 years old from Liverpool),Matthew Lyons (11 years old from Leeds),

Alan Ayckbourn's classic comedy Henceforward… returns to the Stephen Joseph Theatre this autumn in a brand new production directed by the author.

A life-size sculpture by Antony Gormley has been dramatically suspended from the ceiling of the Ondaatje Wing Main Hall of the National Portrait Gallery today, Wednesday 7 September 2016.

In celebration of Roald Dahl Day, which will mark Roald Dahl's 100th birthday on 13 September, producing partners Nuffield and Curve in association with Lyric Hammersmith, today announced a major UK tour of Roald Dahl's FANTASTIC MR FOX, in a brand new musical adaptation for the stage.

Following the great success of 2015's Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's Globe returns to Exeter Northcott Theatre, this time with its acclaimed Two Gentlemen of Verona, running Thu 8 - Sun 11 September 2016.