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British TV and stage company Panto Live are holding international auditions as the hunt begins for participants to be part of an live, online pantomime starring actor Chris Rankin, best known as Percy Weasley of the Harry Potter franchise.

Therea??s more magic to do.

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap - the longest running show in the world, which had been due to resume performances at The St Martin's Theatre on Friday 23 October - is to have its reopening postponed.

How To Get Away With Murder and Harry Potter star Alfred Enoch is the latest cast member to be announced for the digital world premiere of Henry Filloux-Bennett's online play What A Carve Up!, based on Jonathan Coe's critically acclaimed satirical novel.

The Royal Albert Hall will open its doors this December with a programme of festive favourites, welcoming a live audience to a much-needed celebration of Christmas in 2020.

Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director of the Young Vic, today announces the cast of The New Tomorrow, a weekend of pop-up performances celebrating the Young Vic's 50th birthday.

Ghost Lights is set on the empty stage of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on the 5th September 1939 when all theatres were closed due to the outbreak of WW2.

Research conducted by the Family Arts Campaign and Indigo, who have conducted the largest UK research study into audience intentions during Covid, suggests families are a willing and important audience segment at risk of exclusion.

Olivier Award winning theatre producers Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Creative Officer of Hartshorn-Hook Enterprises, today announce expansion and staffing plans for their group of companies, which include includes Hartshorn - Hook Productions, Immersive Everywher

We dramatise Ruperta??s life as a teenage hacker and explore the value of data, privacy, power and secrets

The Barn Theatre has announced casting for their 2020 Theatre Recovery Season productions of Marry Me A Little and Peter Pan.

Lambert Jackson Productions has announced the cancellation of three of its previously announced upcoming shows.

Sky Arts Freeview will present showings of theatrical performances this week, including The Phantom of the Opera, La Boheme, Cats, and more.

Star of stage, screen and lockdown live-stream, and current BGT Semi-Finalist, Myra DuBois' weekly online 'self-help seminar' 'A Problem Shared' was broadcast over lockdown and became nothing short of a modern miracle, an internet sensation that lesser stars can only dream of.

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has revealed, in a recent interview with Andrew Marr, that the government has 'had to stall' on plans to reopen theatres due to a rise in COVID-19 cases.

Darren Day joins the West End Musical Drive in Godspell cast and brings a heavenly offer with him; with 'Drive Out To Help Out' cars are now being sold on a special buy one get one free basis (for this event only) to help raise money for selected charities.

It's six years since Before After premiered at what was then the St James Studio, with Hadley Fraser and Caroline Sheen in the lead roles.

Emma Ricea??s acclaimed Romantics Anonymous was supposed to be embarking on a US tour in March, which was cancelled due to the pandemic.

Last night, JW3 - the Jewish community centre in London - hosted its first ever hybrid event in partnership with ALP musicals' SIGNAL series.

My White Best Friend (And Other Letters Left Unsaid) was originally commissioned by The Bunker Theatre in March 2019 as a festival where letter-writing engages with a range of provocative topics such as racial tension, emotional engagement, unspoken prejudice and underlying social issues.

Tsemaye is a Nigerian-born, London-based West End performer.

Selladoor helps kick start the next phase of The Shows Must Go On, a series of weekly shows streamed on You Tube, with their smash hit 30th anniversary production of Fame the Musical.

Sing away those Autumn blues this October with an incredible host of West End talent at West End Musical Drive In! Following the recently announced Godspell 50th anniversary concert screening spectacular (4th October), West End Musical Drive In has announced further casting for the month ahead, cont

Presented by Defibrillator, in conjunction with The Actors' Centre, Gemma Lawrence's new play Sunnymead Court is a two-hander tale for our times.

Paul Roseby OBE today announces National Youth Theatre's developments for the remainder of 2020 and initial plans for 2021.