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'Grindr: The Opera' (Winner! Best New Musical, Off West End Awards 2019) puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera.

Grab your tickets for the West End transfer of Rebecca Frecknall’s A Streetcar Named Desire

Representatives of the UK’s freelance professional choral ensembles have said the decision to close the BBC Singers is “a huge false economy”.

Little Angel's spring season is packed with vibrant productions, family puppet-making workshops, holiday clubs, storytelling sessions and craft activities running through easter and beyond.

Flabbergast Theatre take a bold approach to a familiar play and hit and miss along the way

As part of their 2023 Premieres season this autumn, New Wimbledon Theatre will premiere three new productions in their studio space including, the full version of monodrama Black to the Future, initially developed as part of a Lyric Hammersmith emerging writers programme in 2019 and, two brand spank

Actor Ricardo P Lloyd will be appearing at The National Maritime Museum on April 1, as part of their Caribbean Takeover.

A parable about the perils of capitalism that prioritises self-aggrandising polemics over dramatic substance

Milly Alcock, best known for her role in Game of Thrones spinoff series House of the Dragon, will lead a new production of The Crucible in the West End.

The King's Head Theatre has announced that the world premiere of BREEDING – a funny, moving drama about adopting as queer parents – will headline the second Takeover season.

The Royal Opera House hosted a performance this afternoon featuring over 130 Ukrainian singers, including individuals displaced by the war, and the full Royal Opera Chorus.

The Messiah Complex is a fascinating exploration of dystopian philosophy and intellectual restrictions.

In 45 minutes, Brace doesn’t have any answers to Ace’s uncertainties, but his queries aim the spotlight at a subject that still isn’t staged much.

Sheffield Theatres today has releaed first look photos of their new production of The Good Person of  Szechwan, marking the 80th anniversary of Bertolt Brecht’s popular play.

After the Act is entirely different to any other musical currently running in London.

The Menier Chocolate Factory's production of Marjorie Prime just celebrated its opening night.

BBC Two has just announced that it will air a 90-minute special celebrating Andrew Lloyd Webber's 75th Birthday on 25 March.

Oldham Coliseum theatre have confirmed the closure of the venue and the beginning of a redundancy process that will impact all staff.

For the second year running, Big Night Of Musicals will be back on BBC One.

The season will comprise of two world premieres Frank and Percy by Ben Weatherill starring Ian McKellen and Roger Allam (Theatre Royal Windsor Friday 9 June – Saturday 22 July 2023 and Theatre Royal Bath Tuesday 25 July – Saturday 5 August 2023) and Alone Together by Simon Williams, with casting

Waleed Akhtar is the first recipient of The Roger Michell Commissioning Fund.

Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and producer Devonté Hynes presents a new 12-part series, Composed with Devonté Hynes, with the first three episodes available on BBC Sounds.

As their first production at Seven Dials Playhouse, London Youth Theatre will present katzenmusik, a darkly comic story about social inequality and upheaval on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th April.

Nominated for Best Director in the Evening Standard Awards 2022, the widely acclaimed little scratch returns to the London stage at the New Diorama Theatre for one month only.

An extension of tax relief rates and £8.