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Peaky Blinders: The Rise is 'a truly unmissable experience' (Express) that transports you inside the world of TV’s most notorious drama at the Camden Garrison, the glamorously gritty new venue in the heart of Camden Market.

One of my favourite theatrical moments of the year at Theatre Royal Bath was Into the Woods: a trippy version of Stephen Sondheim's musical, thanks to Terry Gilliam's surreal Monty Python-esque imagination.

King Charles has released the annual New Year Honours List, which features notable members of the theatrical community Sonia Friedman, David Harewood, Stephen Graham, and more.

Save up to 50% on The Play That Goes Wrong at the Duchess Theatre

Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends will be broadcast on BBC Two on 31 December at 5.

The smash-hit production of MOTHER GOOSE starring Ian McKellen and John Bishop, will also visit Leicester, Salford and Bristol as part of their UK and Ireland tour.

Marvellous Machine Theatre Company will present Morveren by Kate Webster, directed by Lou Corben.

After Covid dealt a stuttering start to the year, 2022 brought some standout shows and performances.

Dirty Dancing is back! Exploding with heart-pounding music, breathtaking emotion and sensationally sexy dancing.

This New Year, the Royal Opera House will add six new performances to Royal Opera House Stream for audiences around the world to enjoy: The Cellist, Romeo and Juliet and Sylvia from The Royal Ballet; and La traviata, Fidelio and Madama Butterfly from The Royal Opera.

If 2020 was the year theatre ground to a halt and 2021 was when it nervously found its legs again (only to fall over occasionally), then 2022 was when it blasted back to some kind of normal with many pandemic-delayed shows finally seeing the inside of a venue.

Boxing Day Theatre Sale: Save up to 49% on As You Like It @sohoplace

It's the best place in the world so why would anyone burn it down? Can these two cowboys figure it out before time is up? In this thrilling hour of clowning, physical theatre and comedy it's a race against time to capture the culprit, put out the metaphorical fires and save the show.

All big shows rely on their understudies; they provide the backbone of a production.

Get a first look inside rehearsals for Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage, returning to the Dominion Theatre in January!

Watch a clip of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Royal Variety performance with Gary Barlow, Gareth Malone, and the London Youth Choir.

Following sensational critical acclaim One Woman Show played sold out runs at Soho Theatre London and Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and was called “the single hottest ticket in the capital right now” (Time Out).

Antic Disposition's A Christmas Carol is as traditional as a roast goose and Christmas pudding.

VAULT Festival 2023 will see Part of the Main present three diverse and engaging productions over three weeks.

2022 started with the UK fighting with Covid's Omicron variant, which was not really conducive to much theatrical mingling.

All in Good Time is a bold new onstage celebration of divergent perspectives of time: featuring movement, poetry, ADHD time travel, projection, (entirely optional) audience interaction, dodos, disco balls, and whatever else we have time for.

Well, we may not know how we got here, but here we are - December 2022.

The acclaimed production of Death Suits You will run at VAULT Festival 7th-10th Feb 2023.

The Boxing Day Sale has begun with over 35 West End shows available, from £15.

While last week's snow may have melted away, there will still be a White Christmas in Liverpool thanks to the touring production of Irving Berlin's beloved Holiday classic.