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BWW catches up with Joe White to chat about bringing Joe White: Ethiopian and Still Not Hungry to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Polka Theatre’s Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive Helen Matravers has announced details of their new Autumn – Winter season, running from 27 September 2023 through to 21 January 2024.

After selling out its initial two performances at the London Palladium in under eight hours, the producers of Death Note the Musical have added an additional performance on Tuesday 22nd August at 2.

Tim Sheader has been appoint as the new Artistic Director and joint Chief Executive of the Donmar Warehouse, alongside Executive Director Henny Finch.

The Royal Opera House’s Engender Festival is back – bringing together today’s most exciting opera makers, writers, creatives and changemakers.

The producers of The Mongol Khan, Esunmunkh Myagmar, Amundra Amartuvshin, Bayra Bela (Amazon The Power, NETFLIX Marco Polo), Unurmaa Janchiv, Oliver King (The Ukrainian Ballet, Counting Sheep) have announced a team of world class UK creatives who are being brought on board especially for the London

Returning to the UK due to phenomenal demand, following her one-night engagement last year at the Lyric Theatre, West End, Captain Sandy – the undeniable star of the smash-hit reality series Below Deck Mediterranean – will be bringing Captain Sandy Live to further theatres around the c

All new footage has been released from Disney’s Winnie the Pooh’s UK & Ireland Tour.

Written almost a century ago and premiering in London for the first time, Yours Unfaithfully has the acquired taste of a fine vintage wine.

Old Friends all-star cast will again include Bernadette Peters who is appearing in a West End run for the first time in her legendary career and Lea Salonga who is appearing for the first time in 27 years.

Although set in 1991, Peter Morgan’s Patriots feels urgently current.

BWW reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue shares her top picks in comedy in the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme.

Sasha Regan's all-male The Mikado ensemble arrives at Wilton's Music Hall this week, from Wednesday 7 June - Saturday 1 July, following their smash hits: all-male H.

Presented by Theatre North and Dermot McLaughlin Productions, the hilarious murder mystery Scream Queer Murder written by the critically acclaimed Martin Lewton will make its London debut at King's Head Theatre 01 – 12 August  as part of the Takeover Season, curated by David Cumming and his Queer

If I had to choose one word to describe the role of artistic director of a pub theatre, the adjective that immediately springs to mind is: varied!

Heart No Sleeve presents The Make Marriage Worx Group (WIP).

The first photos have been released of CABARET's new stars, Maude Apatow (HBO’s Euphoria) as Sally Bowles, Mason Alexander Park (Netflix’s The Sandman) as Emcee, Beverley Klein as Fraulein Schneider and Teddy Kempner as Herr Schultz.

The on sale and performance dates have been announced for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, with further casting to be announced.

Following the runaway success of the debut A Christmas Gaiety performance last year, drag sensation Peaches Christ and conductor / producer Edwin Outwater will return to the Royal Albert Hall to host this year’s biggest camp Christmas party as part of the Hall’s festive celebrations for 2023 in

Following a highly acclaimed tour across the UK and Ireland, the National Theatre’s smash-hit production of The Ocean at the End of the Lane will return to London’s West End for a strictly limited 7-week run this autumn.

Jeremy Herrin directs Sam Holcroft's new play A Mirror, interrogating censorship and free speech, and featuring Jonny Lee Miller, Tanya Reynolds and Micheal Ward.

Orange Tree Theatre, Damsel Productions and The Women’s Prize for Playwriting present THE SWELL, by Isley Lynn.

Seen through a kaleidoscope of music, monologue, comedy and dance PETER SMITH'S DIANA shines new light on the most hunted person of the modern age and on the words she said long ago.

Actress and comedian Ali Wong has announced that she’ll be returning to the U.

A new production of the most fantasmagorical musical of all time, CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, will embark on tour in 2024, opening at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton on 30 April 2024 where it will play until 12 May 2024 ahead of a UK tour.