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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.

Jodie Steele (Heathers; Six The Musical) joins the digital concert rendition of Gatsby A Musical as leading-lady Daisy Buchanan, alongside Liam Doyle (Wicked; Legally Blonde) as Tom Buchanan, and Joe Frost (Jersey Boys; An Officer and a Gentleman) as George Wilson.

Last week, we looked at the early stage work of a quintet of actors who have gone on to celebrated work, and a wider public, onscreen.

Casting has been confirmed for the online concert streaming of Treason, the exciting new musical drama based on the notorious gunpowder plot of 1605.

Lambert Jackson Productions today announces its online lockdown production of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World which will stream on stream.

There has never been a better time to get into stand-up comedy.

With Romeo & Juliet, starring Emily Redpath and Dear Evan Hansen Olivier Award-winner Sam Tutty, we set out to produce a piece of work that broke through the ceiling of creativity one finds at present with technologically limited readings of plays via Zoom and similar mediums.

This centuries-old story, often referred to as the Italian 'Hamlet', looks increasingly familiar in today's world of playboy billionaires used to doing whatever they want

London Theatre Runway is a non-competitive studio in which professional performers can reconnect to the industry, build their confidence and enhance their skills every weekend.

Andrew Whyment is a theatre director and Artistic Director of Squint.

From the Drive-In to your home, relive the biggest musical concert series of 2020.

Sky Arts has announced this week's lineup for its Freeview channel, including multiple musicals, operas, and more.

An extension has been announced for the release of  the new filmed theatre production of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet starring Sam Tutty and Emily Redpath in the title roles and Sir Derek Jacobi as the Narrator.

Danielle Steers is known for roles such as Catherine Parr in Six and Zahara in Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of Hell.

Many British screen stars may seem to have burst on to the screen as comparative unknowns, except to theatre devotees who knew them already from the stage.

musical adaptation of the hit 2019 film, Fisherman's Friends, is set to re-open the Hall for Cornwell this fall, following its £20m redevelopment project.

Producers of 'GOOD GRIEF,' starring FLEABAG star  Sian Clifford and Nikesh Patel, today  announce 250 free viewing passes are available to anyone under 21 thanks to donors jeen to support the theatre industry.

Barnes’ People is a series of four theatrical monologues written by Peter Barnes: Billy & Me starring Jon Culshaw (Spitting Image, Dead Ringers, Horrible Histories, Newzoids, The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson), and more.

The music video has been released for  ‘He’s So Different’ from the new musical ‘On The Edge’ by Sam Hall.

Reprising her role in Gatsby - A Musical, Emma Williams chats to us about juggling acting and motherhood, writing her first novel and the roles she’d love to play.

West End star Danielle Steers (Catherine Parr in the West End production of 'Six'), who created one of the lead characters, Zahara, in Jim Steinman's monster hit stage musical 'Bat Out of Hell', is releasing “The Future Ain't What It Used To Be, an intimate album of nine Steinman songs.

A first-look image has today been released for the National Theatre’s Romeo & Juliet, a feature film for broadcast on Sky Arts and PBS this April.

Staged is back on our screens, and this time David Tennant and Michael Sheen are bickering over an American remake of their own series.

An ever-mutating virus has led to general uncertainty on and off the West End about the start-up of live performance.