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Conducted by Anthony Parnther (isn’t that the perfect name to lead this specific venture?), this European premiere features Massamba Diop on the talking drum, an instrument essential to the score.

Few words grab the attention like murder.

Maureen Lipman's one woman show traces a Holocaust survivor's journey to find home

All in all, the evening is like a group session with no guarantees of being called out or receiving answers.

Eddie Izzard's Broadway smash comes to the West End to capture the hearts and minds of a new audience

The King's Head Theatre has announced details of Tania Azevedo's LGBTQ+ Musical Theatre focused season, MT PRIDE LAB, celebrating the best in developing musical theatre.

London Clown Festival has announced its 2023 line up, a selection of the finest clowns the city, and indeed the world has to offer.

A packed line-up featuring nearly every single musical playing in the West End has been unveiled ahead of this year's West End LIVE.

They keep adding dates and they keep selling out.

The bestselling children's author David Walliams and the award-winning Birmingham Stage Company are teaming up once again for a brand-new production of Awful Auntie.

Writer and composer Khiyon Hursey will make his London debut this summer on Thursday 20 July at The Other Palace Studio, showcasing his work from stage musicals, films, upcoming productions and shows in development.

Tickets for the London season of Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's KING LEAR will go on general sale on 5 June at 12 noon.

The cast has been announced for THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL’s London run at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.

The musical revue Sondheim on Sondheim will come home to the Bridewell Theatre this summer (4-8 July) when leading amateur theatre company Sedos present this showcase of the composer's best-loved work in the venue where it was first produced.

West End and Broadway star  RACHEL TUCKER will perform live at Cadogan Hall on Sunday 5 November 2023 at  6.

The Royal College of Music Opera Studio journeys to both sides of the Atlantic in the UK premiere of Grammy Award-winning composer Libby Larsen's Barnum's Bird.

Theatre Peckham’s iconic annual Christmas show reunites playwright Geoff Aymer with Artistic Director Suzann McLean for the third time, delivering a fun-filled musical-inspired, pantoesque remix of a classic tale.

The Board of Governors has announced that Professor Randall Whittaker has been appointed as Principal and Chief Executive Officer of Rose Bruford College.

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has released new artwork for its forthcoming production of As You Like It, directed by Omar Elerian, which runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon between 17 June – 5 August 2023.

Omnibus Theatre has announced the inaugural AI Festival, an urgent response to the cultural conversation surrounding the benefits and dangers of rapidly developing Artificial Intelligence.

Kent’s direction is interesting but leans into melodrama, with Ball offering some glitzy big-name introspection and the plot itself overflowing into sexual ambiguity and implied promiscuity.

Tickets from £18.

London's hottest sell-out late-night live gig, Jazz Emu's Pleasure Garden, comes to The Clapham Grand for its biggest, most deluxe show yet.

Reading Rep Theatre has announced that West End stars Lizzie Bea (Sister Act, Heathers) and Josh Barnett (Anything Goes, Newsies) will be mentors for the theatre's summer school, Reading Rep's West End Experience.

Mike Birbiglia brings his latest one man show The Old Man & The Pool to the West End for a strictly limited 4 week run, following sell out performances across the US, including a Broadway run at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.