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2023 marks the 50th Anniversary of the legendary smash hit musical The Rocky Horror Show, as it continues to play a newly extended tour through 2023 to sell-out crowds.

Director and CEO of Fuel, Kate McGrath has announced the company's first shows for 2023.

Guest artists from the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, the Royal Swedish Ballet School, Yorke Dance Project and the former Richard Alston Dance Company perform works by the late choreographer plus a filmed performance from the Martha Graham Dance Company

Writers behind some of the most critically acclaimed works over the last year were honoured at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards 2023 ceremony, including Aamina Ahmad, David Edgar, Vivienne Franzmann, Rebecca Hall, Katie Hims, Adam Kay, Neil McKay, and Ben Power.

'Be the change that you want to see.

The National Youth Theatre (NYT) has announced free auditions around the country in Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London and Manchester this February.

The Rose Room's Late Night Circus, a scintillating, underground, immersive experience begins previews February 10th, 2023.

Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) present a trio of works at Sadler's Wells on Wednesday 19 - Saturday 22 April.

As public booking opens, the Menier Chocolate Factory has announced the full casting for the UK première of Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime.

Despite performing the exact same work step for step and note for note in identical shows, performers in the UK are paid around half that of their US counterparts and experience greater precarity.

Olly Novello's new musical The Verge of Forever, a coming of age song cycle about the quest of aspiring actors to find their place in the world, with Musical Direction by Niall Casserly, will premiere at The Other Palace Theatre on 12th March 2023.

Frozen is extending until October 2023 due to public demand – having broken box office records at Theatre Royal Drury Lane across November, December and through Christmas.

Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of the critically acclaimed production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!.

Following almost 14 years leading Shakespeare’s Globe, Chief Executive and Trustee Neil Constable has advised the Board that he will be stepping down from the role by the end of 2023.

Jewish teenagers Esty, Allister, Danny and Sara are sitting in a revision session about to take their GCSEs when the terrorist alarm rings.

London’s biggest and most diverse live performance festival is finally back on its feet.

The Broadway is set to throw its doors wide open, bringing an exciting mix of live performances to Catford from Sunday 12 February while also providing a home for community projects and new writing.

‘Nothing in the world will ever be the same’

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) hosted the BAFTA Tea Party for the first time in two years on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles.

David Sabella (CHICAGO) celebrates his return to drag, after 25 years, with his critically acclaimed one man/woman show “Amanda Reckonwith Returns” in a special performance at Pangea on February 7, 2023, AT 7PM.

After the occasionally muddy narrative in their tired Nutcracker, this is a Swan Lake with clear, emotional storytelling and magical choreography.

Following a critically acclaimed autumn run at Soho Theatre and five-star Edinburgh Fringe reviews, Age is a Feeling from Haley McGee (The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale - now also a memoir published by Penguin Random House) returns to Soho Theatre in February 2023.

When award-winning Black US playwright, librettist, and television writer David Harrison Rivers' modern, nuanced, complex portrait of an interracial relationship received its world premiere at New Conservatory Theatre Center, San Francisco in 2017, it received rave reviews.

Suella Braverman, Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy will join the cast of the new stage production  Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Saves the World which opens at Birmingham Rep on 1 February, and runs until 11 March 2023.

After a much-delayed press night when Patsy Ferran stepped in as Blanche DuBois with a few days' notice to replace Lydia Wilson, Rebecca Frecknall's new version of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire has finally opened at London's Almeida Theatre.