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Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been appointed in the role of President of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society.

Two men meet at a funeral in Lolita Chakrabarti's intense and uncompromising new play, which proves a lively yet thoughtful piece on family and friendship and features her husband, Adrian Lester, in the cast.

Elaine Paige will play an exclusive preview from the exciting new musical comedy Jilly Cooper's Harriet - the Musical, on her Radio 2 show this weekend.

Dean Johnson directs Sejal Keshwala (Faith), Emma Kingston (Brooklyn), Newtion Matthews (Street Singer), Jamie Muscato (Taylor) and Marisha Wallace (Paradice), with musical direction from Leo Munby and video editing by Sam Diaz.

Lorien Haynes’s Good Grief is hard to pin down.

Curve is now streaming The Color Purple online.

Producers of the new musical Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical have made the decision to delay the start of performances until social distancing is lifted.

Reviewing the Curve Theatre’s gorgeous concert revival of The Color Purple feels timely in more ways than one: not only is it an apt choice of programming during Black History Month, but tonight’s press night is the same day as the conclusion of a long and drawn-out employment tribunal linked to

Due to the uncertainty surrounding obtaining visas and work permits in Europe, the National Theatre has shelved its plans to bring the tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time there.

Earlier this month, writer and director P Burton-Morgan's Metta Theatre, in conjunction with Perfect Pitch, released the studio cast EP of their hip hop musical In the Willows, adapted from Kenneth Grahame's classic The Wind in the Willows.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, the producers have made the decision to postpone the forthcoming run of Good, starring David Tennant.

Boris Johnson has suggested that rapid COVID-19 testing, along with mass vaccination, will allow for theatres to reopen.

A group of stars are speaking out against new visa rules for British artists, actors, and theatre workers in an open letter.

Josef Davies is an actor known for his roles on stage in Bent (National Theatre) and on-screen in Chernobyl and Call the Midwife.

Isolation and loneliness are certainly aspects of the human experience that more of us have felt of late.

The West End production of 42nd Street, filmed live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray this spring.

Since the pandemic forced an early end to his four year stint as Ubaldo Piangi in the West End’s The Phantom of the Opera, Paul Ettore Tabone has been keeping busy working on his debut album.

We've looked across successive weeks at a range of plays over time that offered crucial opportunities to an array of then little-known men and women who have since shot to varying degrees of renown.

The Barn Theatre have today released a first look at the upcoming digital musical theatre event entitled The Secret Society of Leading Ladies, which provides a new innovative format that allows the viewer to make decisions and control the set list.

The Arden School of Theatre, part of UCEN Manchester, are screening the Maltby and Shire musical 'Starting Here, Starting Now' this Valentine's weekend.

As a very different Valentines Day looms for people in the UK, Metcalfe Gordon Productions have created a unique digital version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, directed by Nick Evans.

Following the success of its recent five-star production of Sunset Boulevard – at Home, Curve will stream The Color Purple online between Tue 16 Feb and Sun 7 Mar, in association with Birmingham Hippodrome.

It may be a while before we can pack ourselves into a concert hall again, sadly.

Jessica Rose McVay is Artistic Director of the women-led production company, 45North.

There is a particular snobbery surrounding musical theatre: critics say that in a moment of high drama, crisis or emotion, the most unrealistic thing to do would be to break into song.