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The National Theatre is launching a new Podcast Series: That Black Theatre Podcast.

With over 1,200 tickets sold and 3,000 suggestions for musical theatre styles, songs and settings for their socially distanced livestreams to date, Olivier Award winners and Fringe favourites The Showstoppers return to your home screens with four completely improvised musicals this October.

Equity has seen an enormous rise in reported cases of racist behavior across the stage and screen industries.

Due to the ongoing impact of Covid-19, Ambassador Theatre Group has made the decision to suspend all Pantomimes at ATG venues until Christmas 2021.

Chiswick Playhouse has launched a new concert series named Sunday Soul, starring seven west end stars.

English National Balleta??s Emerging Dancer marks the companya??s first live performance since lockdown and the opener to their newly curated Digital Season as a response to the current COVID-19 restrictions.

On 23rd September 2020, David Bedella, Hannah Waddingham and Joe Stilgoe along with a superb cadre of West End musicians gave of their time and talent in a show laced with equal parts emotion and humour to benefit charities that support the UK theatre community.

Multi award-winning stage and screen actress Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply; The Doctor, Almeida; Blindness, Donmar Warehouse) leads an all-star female cast in the online revival of Steven Carl McCasland's dinner party drama, Little Wars.

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester has announced that they have welcomed two new members to the award-winning theatre's team.

An electrifying new revival of Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak's hit musical Godspell will be performed at the Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre in Walthamstow for a three week run from May 12th a?' 29th 2021, following a postponement from its planned summer 2020 schedule.

Top Note Arts will present a virtual production of Adam Gwon's musical Ordinary Days, streaming online from 16th-22nd November 2020.

The live-streamed production of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World that we enjoyed during lockdown is now coming to the stage, with two socially distanced shows at the London Palladium on 11 October.

I owe a lot to Follies - friendships with fans and actors and occasional pieces of journalism have resulted from the show - but it made me realise how transformative live theatre can be.

SIGNAL x JW3 is a new collaboration between the acclaimed musical theatre concert series and JW3, the UK's biggest Jewish Community Centre.

Matthew Bournea??s double Olivier Award-winning dance adaptation of the legendary film The Red Shoes will be released in cinemas nationwide from 30 September.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella is now set to open at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in April of 2021.

The UK government has confirmed that theatres are exempt from the new 10pm curfew that has been put in place for restaurants, bars, and more in the UK in order to stop the spread of COVID-19.

New restrictions have been put in place in the UK in order to stop the spread of COVID-19, including venues being forced to close at 10pm, no spectators for the foreseeable future at sports venues, pubs, bars and restaurants being restricted to table service only, and more.

A brand-new streaming service has been launched offering arts organisations online hosting and production solutions for all their streaming needs.

As a result of ongoing social distancing restrictions, Ambassador Theatre Group has now suspended all performances at its UK venues until Friday 27 November 2020.

The London cast of Hairspray will perform on Britain's Got Talent this weekend.

Award-winning scenic and costume designer Peter McKintosh was meant to be working on a production of 12 Angry Men at the Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon in Tokyo until Covid-19 hit.

Ameena Hamid Productions presents the premiere of Pepa Duarte's Eating Myself, a brand-new show packed with South American flavour about a woman's identity in Peruvian society.

Neal Street Productions has today announced a brand-new screenwriters bursary scheme aimed at supporting and training emerging Black, Asian and ethnic minority screenwriters.

Immersive Everywhere’s THE GREAT GATSBY, created and directed by Alexander Wright- which had previously set a record as the UK’s longest running immersive production –is set to re-open at West End venue IMMERSIVE | LDN on Thursday 1 October 2020, with a press night on Thursday 22 October.