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Mickey-Jo Boucher, behind the popular YouTube theatre channel MickeyJoTheatre, has announced that Off West End Award Winner Liv Andrusier and Olivier Award Winner Jak Malone alongside composer Pippa Cleary will be special guests for Mickey-Jo's upcoming live chat show MickeyJoTheatre: Live!, which c

Sam Rees’s The Food Bank Show is very aware of all the limitations of his viewership.

Following last week’s opening of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s SUNSET BLVD.

Sharon Wattis will join the 2024/2025 UK and Ireland tour of the multi award-winning musical MARY POPPINS, as Mrs Corry and Miss Smythe.

When we talk about slavery, our minds immediately land to the olden days of colonies and plantations; perhaps we think of the much discussed reparations provided to the victims or their descendants, or we draw back to those tedious corporate trainings that address a problem that seemingly doesn't be

Siân Phillips steals the evening in Theatre Royal Bath's twin-bill tribute to Terence Rattigan's one-act plays: lesser-known Table Number Seven, and The Browning Version ­– hailed by critics as 'a 70-minute masterpiece' when first performed at London's Phoenix Theatre in 1948.

Αγρίμι (Fauve) by Lenio Kaklea is a brave piece of modern dance that should be recognised for its shunning of conventions and committed performances.

There’s no shame in pulling an old favourite from the vaults but Jonathan Miller’s 1982 gangster-themed production is firing blanks in this latest revival.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has released her autumn Budget, which does not include the necessary funding for the arts sector to stave off venue closures.

Described as 'a raw, euphoric choreography between 3 figures and 75 litres of fake blood' and 'a cyclical feat of endurance and precision', Ocean Hester Stefan Chillingworth's Blood Show is coming to the Battersea Arts Centre from 12-23 November.

A new musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's iconic coming-of-age novel Little Women will gets its world premiere in the West End in 2025.

Supernatural expert and podcaster Danny Robins is set to explore the otherworldly as he hosts Fright Night, an exclusive one-off event held at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday 30 October 2025.

Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,  a West End run has been announced for THE LAST LAUGH.

Who owns beauty? How far would you go to obey orders? What is the ultimate price of friendship? Rajiv Joseph's thought-provoking and blackly comic play, Guards at the Taj, explores power, obediance, human curiosity and allegiance, beautifully directed by 2024’s recipient of the JMK Award, Adam

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced further casting for Hamlet, directed by the multi award-winning Rupert Goold and running in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre from Saturday 8 February – Saturday 29 March 2025, with press night on Tuesday 18 February 2025.

Late night in Barcelona.

It’s interesting to consider that ballet began its development in the mid 16th century, however it wasn't until around 400 years later that BIPOC (American) dancers Maria Tallchief, Raven Wilkinson and Arthur Mitchell, first joined ballet companies.

The producers of MEAN GIRLS in the West End have announced that the musical is extending to 8 June 2025 with over 75,000 new tickets released for sale.

The European premiere of Bredeweg's critically acclaimed musical SCISSORHANDZ: A Musical Reinvented will open at Southwark Playhouse Elephant from 23 January 2025 for an exclusive 10-week engagement closing on 29 March, co-produced by Lance Bass and Michelle Visage.

The critically acclaimed hit supernatural thriller 2:22 - A Ghost Story will embark on an extensive UK-wide tour, opening at Manchester Opera House on 4 August 2025, and continuing through to June 2026.

A couple crash through the door of a Barcelona apartment in a passionate embrace, but this ardour quickly cools as cultural and personal clashes take over.

A new cast is headed for the Upside Down in the critically acclaimed, Olivier Award winning, world première production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, currently running at Phoenix Theatre.

Lucie Jones will join Les Miserables as 'Fantine' in the West End, while Katie Hall will star on tour.

'I’ve seen it before, and I’ll see it again… Just little bits of history repeating.

The Gate Theatre is presenting the UK premiere of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Sanaz Toossi’s Wish You Were Here, a funny and astute drama, vividly exploring female friendships and how life can impact them against a backdrop of marriages and revolution.