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The award-winning smash-hit musical a?oeROCK OF AGESa?? will return to tour the UK opening at Portsmouth Kings Theatre on 2 May 2021.

Actors including Merryl Ansah (The Lion King), Charlotte Vaughan (The Phantom of the Opera) and Cameron Bernard Jones (Tina) have lent their voices to a choir video of the opening number from new British musical The Mayfly Man.

The new multimedia production company Bennu Creative House Limited formed in May 2020 by Celise Hicks, Shelley Maxwell, Michelle McGivern, and Clement Ishmael, is opening its doors to build innovative artistic concepts encompassing content across film, television, theatre, and digital media.

The Weston family are launching a new £25m fund to support the cultural sector as it attempts to recover following the impact of Covid-19.

Based on the 2006 Danish film of the same name by Lars Von Trier, The Boss of It All was adapted into a play in 2013 by writer and director Jack McNamara for New Perspectives - an East Midlands based theatre company.

Opera Holland Park unfortunately couldn't proceed with its planned 2020 summer season, but this very special venue was among the first to leap into action with a series of open-air concerts instead - from all-star operatic galas to a dash of musical theatre with Sondheim's A Little Night Music (re

The Old Vic presents Faith Healer, as part of its Old Vic: In Camera series.

Faith Healer is the third production in the Old Vic: In Camera live-streamed series, and the first with multiple performers involved.

FFew performers in the industry are on top of their game like Sharon D Clarke right now.

The Stage has reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that mass coronavirus testing, which would allow for theatres to reopen without social distancing is a?oea long way offa??.

On Monday, we'll be releasing a specially created audio-play version of touring production Dare Devil Rides To Jarama.

The Mousetrap has announced two rotating casts for its socially-distanced reopening at St.

For two socially-distanced concert performances only, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award®-winning masterpiece Sunset Boulevard comes to Alexandra Palace Theatre! Performances take place on October 25.

After launching this summer with the sold-out musical Fanny and Stella, The Garden Theatre at The Eagle presents a new production of the popular musical Pippin.

Amanda Holden and Sheridan Smith duet on I Know Him So Well from Chess, as part of Holden's new album, Songs From My Heart.

The Last Five Years is one of the few musicals that seems as if Jason Robert Brown wrote it precisely with a pandemic in mind.

Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of London's Young Vic Theatre, recently sat down with Christiane Amanpour to discuss the current state of theatre, when theatres might be able to reopen, the Black Lives Matter Movement and more.

Following critical acclaim BoxLess Theatre, the Barn Theatre and Take Two Theatricals have announced a one-week extension their production of Private Peaceful.

The NST theatre will soon reopen under new management, after closing in July.

Today, Rose Theatre has announced it will re-open for an autumn 'Return to the Rose Season' of live performances from 28th October.

Over twelve narratives on some of the most difficult facts facing our society today, online theatre festival Dazed New World will feature work exploring how we might evolve post-corona, highlight social injustice, inequality and issues of environmental concern.

Blackeyed Theatre have today released their production images for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, which will be performed in front of a socially-distanced audience at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell, as well as LIVE streamed across the UK tomorrow, Friday 18 September.

Following the huge success of the run in August at the Minack Open Air Theatre, the acclaimed 40th anniversary production of Willy Russell's EDUCATING RITA is coming back from Wednesday 28 October.