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The Other Palace & Turbine Theatre have announced that MTFestUK 2023 will be  showcasing eight new musicals over a two week period, across both The Other Palace Studio and The Turbine Theatre.

Masculinity, vulnerability and meaning are neatly entwined in this world premier production of Sam Mcardle’s show, which brings to mind ‘When you durst feel it, then you were a man,’.

After a sell-out tour last year, Gordon Buchanan is heading back on the road.

The phenomenon of reality television is gloriously brought to life in a new and original comedy spoof musical which will be staged in the New Year at The Theatre at the Tabard, Chiswick, from Monday 30th January until Thursday 2nd February 2023 and The Bread & Roses Theatre, Clapham, from 6th to

Theatre Royal Stratford East has announced casting for their co-production with Nottingham Playhouse and Ramps on the Moon, the world premiere of Samson Hawkins’ new play VILLAGE IDIOT directed by Stratford East Artistic Director Nadia Fall.

Jermyn Street Theatre has announced the full cast of the world premiere of The Oyster Problem, the debut play by renowned historian and award-winning author Orlando Figes.

Following critically acclaimed seasons at the Edinburgh, Hollywood and Adelaide Fringe Festivals in 2022, playwright Henry Naylor returns to The Arcola Theatre this year with the highly anticipated London premiere of his multi award-winning autobiographical new play, Afghanistan Is Not Funny.

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The Watermill have announced the full cast of the brand-new stage adaption of Bill Bryson's award-winning memoir NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND, affectionately celebrating the quirks and eccentricities of British life, adapted by BAFTA and Olivier Award winning playwright Tim Whitnall.

There’s a new queen in town - wait, make that SIX! The most successful musical in a post-Hamilton theatre world has just received a fresh cast change.

Heading to Soho Theatre following its Fringe First winning run in Edinburgh, Breathless is a funny, honest and stylish exploration of the knife-edge of hoarding, from the joy to the addiction and suffocating shame.

Black Bat Productions presents THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS, written by Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller, directed by Michael Zwiauer, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller, produced by Maddy Chisholm-Scott and starring Andrea Gatchalian, Esmeé Cook, and Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller.

Almeida Theatre will present Women, Beware the Devil, starring Leo Bill, Carly-Sophia Davies and more.

After two years on hold due to lockdown's The Voice Project's 'lost' project will finally take to the stage in January and February.

The Royal Opera has announced that Riccardo Massi will perform the role of Manrico in Adele Thomas's new production of Il trovatore on 2, 5, 8, 13 and 16 June 2023.

Sleepova, an ode to black women and their boundless spirits and wild dreams is a new Bush commission from Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini (Little Miss Burden) opening on 24 February (press night 1 March).

​​​​​​​Following sold-out seasons in the West End and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Cirque Berserk!, Britain's biggest and boldest theatre-circus spectacular, will celebrate its tenth anniversary year with a five-week residency at Riverside Studios– with up to three shows daily f

BBC Radio 2 has announced that star of stage and screen Jonathan Bailey is to present The Showstopper, looking at the impact to the theatre community of HIV in the 90s, and how this community reacted to it.

Italian playwright Tobia Rossi’s dark coming-of-age story Hide and Seek will have its UK debut at VAULT Festival in February.

CABARET at the KIT KAT CLUB in London's West End has announced that BAFTA Award winner Aimee Lou Wood will play 'Sally Bowles', Olivier Award nominee John McCrea will play 'The Emcee' and Nathan Ives-Moiba will play 'Cliff Bradshaw' from 13 February 2022 until 27 May 2023.

The Australian Ballet has announced that the company will tour to the Royal Opera House in London in August 2023 as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations.

New photos have been released of of the 2023 wives of Henry VIII in the hit West End musical, SIX.

Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu directs the UK premiere of Robert O'Hara's startlingly provocative and outrageously funny, Bootycandy, a whip-smart, high-octane, roller coaster ride about growing up black and gay.

TV and radio personality Clive Anderson stars in an interactive theatrical look at the difficult world of international relations, written by former ambassador and Middle East peace negotiator Daniel Taub with Dan Patterson, writer/producer on Mock The Week and The Duck House.

Grenfell: System Failure asks further vital questions raised at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry since the critically acclaimed 2021 play Grenfell: Value Engineering, which was in The Telegraph's 100 best cultural events of 2021, and the Observer's top 10 productions of 2021.