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Message In A Bottle, the acclaimed dance theatre production by Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Kate Prince, set to the music of 17-time Grammy Award-winning artist Sting, has been filmed for cinema release in 2024.

The Other Palace will host iconic American stage and screen actress Linda Purl (Happy Days, The Office) starring in the stunning and powerful one-woman show The Year of Magical Thinking, based on the award-winning memoir by Joan Didion, for a limited one-week run.

Casting has been announced for the world premiere of the explosive new musical, La Bamba! The cast will be led by Strictly Come Dancing winner Pasha Kovalev.

The speeches Shakespeare “forgot” to write… a new creative competition for children and young people launches to celebrate 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

WICKED, the West End and Broadway musical phenomenon that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, today releases 400,000 new tickets, extending public booking to Sunday 2 June 2024.

An all new trailer and artwork have been released for GREATEST DAYS, the cinematic adaptation of TAKE THAT’s smash-hit stage musical The Band, out in UK and ROI cinemas on Friday 16th June, with previews Thursday 15thJune.

All new photos have been released for the ninth cast of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution which has recently extended its run at London County Hall until 28 April 2024, making it London’s longest running site specific theatre production.

Following the show’s first run in Oxford earlier this year, emerging theatre company Love Song Productions present this “beautiful and thought-provoking experience” (Daily Info) at the Hope ahead of an Edinburgh Fringe run at Pleasance this summer.

Internationally acclaimed psychological illusionist Derren Brown will present a brand-new show UNBELIEVABLE, which will open in London's West End at the Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly Circus on 19 September 2023, produced by Kenny Wax Ltd and Vaudeville Productions.

Bringing together this duo of dark comedies by one of Britain's most influential modern dramatists, Harold Pinter, Greenwich Theatre presents their first in-house production of 2023.

Rose Theatre has announced its Autumn 2023 season.

What did our critic think of NO I.

The Hope Theatre has announced details of its upcoming summer season, which includes their next in-house production, Snakehead, a high-volume piece of gig-theatre re-examining the Medusa myth.

Best of the Best: Seat Upgrade - Tickets from £71 for The Wizard Of Oz.

Family Tree directed by Matthew Xia is about Henrietta Lacks; a woman who made one of the greatest medical contributions after her cells were taken from a cervical-cancer biopsy.

Samson Hawkins’s play is great fun, but it’s a complex one.

The BBC Proms 2023 launches with a programme bursting with opera, oratorio and large-scale choral work and the first ever weekend-long Proms festival rooted in the North-East at Sage Gateshead.

Stephen Moss joins the Royal Academy of Dance at an exciting time for one of the world's pre-eminent dance education and training organisations as it continues to empower people across the globe through dance.

Midnight Circle Theatre finally gets an opening night.

The New Victoria Theatre in Woking has released their newest brochure announcing full details of their upcoming season.

Watch a video celebrating the 5 year anniversary of Tina: The Tina Turner musical in the West End.

The Architect is an immersive theatrical journey through time and a city conceived by Mojisola Adebayo, Roy Williams and Matthew Xia, and created with a collective of leading Black artists including Bola Agbaje, Dexter Flanders, Vanessa Macauley and XANA.

Review Roundup: What did the critics think of the revival of Brian Friel's Dancing At Lughnasa?

CABARET at the Kit Kat Club has released new production images of John McCrea as Emcee and Aimee Lou Wood as Sally Bowles.

The 2023/24 Season at the London Coliseum, the English National Opera (ENO) will present the acclaimed production of 7 Deaths of Maria Callas.