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Final casting has been announced for Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick!, a sublimely silly and staggeringly rude fabulous festive treat bursting with big laughs, sensational songs, glorious designs  and all the panto trimmings!

Don't miss Darren Criss's West End debut at the London Palladium on October 15th.

Nominations are now open for the 2023 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards.

A nationally profiled theatre company and a national drama school are collaborating to open Collective Theatre, a new performing space for inner London.

After an acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run, Sasha Ellen (nominee for Best New Show at Leicester Comedy Festival, Bafta Rocliffe finalist) plays Pleasance London's 'Best of Edinburgh' season on Monday 6th November with When Life Gives You Ellens, Make Ellenade.

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan returns to Sadler's Wells Theatre this autumn with the UK premiere of Lunar Halo, a collaboration with Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós, choreographed by the company's Artistic Director Cheng Tsung-lung.

Written and directed by Ben Elton, Close Up: The Twiggy Musical is fast paced jukebox biopic of the iconic Twiggy is a moving but entirely relatable story; although she is an international superstar, her life portrayed within this show highlights some of the more personal moments.

The World Premiere of THE BOY comes to Soho Theatre, 17th October – 4th November 2023.

After a critically acclaimed run at VAULT Festival, the OFFIE and VAULT Festival Award-nominated Scratches is heading to the Arcola Theatre this November.

The Olivier-nominated theatre company Les Enfants Terribles and HOME Manchester will present the London premiere of their highly acclaimed co-production The House with Chicken Legs this Winter with a Christmas holiday run at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Adapted with Sam Steiner from his award-winning play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, The Royal Ballet presents the world premiere of The Limit.

The WOW Foundation has launched a brand new festival for girls.

The FTL Foundation will assemble London’s West End and South African musical theatre Stars to take to the Artscape Opera House for a 2-hour Musical Theatre Event.

Kali Theatre presents the world premiere of Phantasmagoria - a gripping psychological horror for our times by internationally acclaimed Indian playwright Deepika Arwind in her British debut.

The Royal Court Theatre has announced that Amy Booth-Steel, Natalie Dew, Karina Fernandez, George Fouracres, Laurie Kynaston, Philipp Mogilnitskiy and Fenella Woolgar have been cast in Mates in Chelsea.

The Unicorn Theatre has announced two more productions from April to August as part of the theatre's upcomign season.

The Young Vic Theatre has announced full casting for Harold Pinter’s enigmatic masterpiece, The Homecoming.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that Nicholas Hytner will join the Company’s Board, formally taking up the position at the Company’s AGM in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Mischief has announced the West End cast of Peter Pan Goes Wrong which sails into the West End for 7 and a half weeks only at the Lyric Theatre this Christmas.

George Benjamin's slick new opera plays at the Royal Opera House after a critically acclaimed run at Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

All new rehearsal photos have been released for the UK premiere of Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s which opens at the Donmar next month.

National Theatre Wales has had its funding completely cut in the latest Wales funding review.

Rachel Garnet’s new play is the chance to explore workers’ rights and mortality.

Gentlemen by Matt Parvin at Arcola Theatre, (24 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL) will run 4 – 28 October 2023.

Stephanie Mohr’s new production of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s feminist novella The Yellow Wallpaper is described as a “genre-defying production blending theatre, dance, live video and sound” - no pressure then!