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NST Young Company presents their debut audio play, The Noise We Make, despite NST's permanent closure.

The Welsh of the West End and The West End of Wales Orchestra have collaborated on a magical performance from the movie 'Frozen' in aid of Acting for Others.

Casting has been announced for The Last Five Years at the Minack Theatre! The cast will be led by Emma Kingston as Cathy and Waylon Jacobs as Jamie.

The Sunday Art Club (TSAC) is the brainchild of Trix Mendes, Artistic Director of Outside The Zone (OTZ), and is the first fruitful collaboration between OTZ and Khaos.

The show must go on: it's been the rallying cry of our beleaguered industry, the message emblazoned on Theatre Support Fund+'s T-shirts and mugs.

This Sunday, Theatré Lapis presented their 30 minute concert version of newly devised musical Pearl and Dagger at Battersea Park's Bandstand.

Two-time OnComm award-winning The Show Must Go Online today announce the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed reading of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Aria Entertainment and WEF Productions have announced full casting for the UK premiere of C-o-n-t-a-c-t, an immersive outdoor performance with a 3D sound design which audiences will listen to on their own headphones, opening on Monday 31st August 2020.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that British stage designer Sally Jacobs has died at age 87.

New musical Sleepless has provided a sneak peek at the show, with a short clip showing Jay McGuiness on stage, singing a clip from one of the songs.

An outdoor concert production of A Little Night Music was performed at Holland Park on August 15!

BBC Proms is fast approaching, with the first Prom kicking off on 28 August.

Los Angeles based, Owl & Pussycat Theatre Company will present two worldwide premieres with Online@theSpaceUK, an Edinburgh Fringe Virtual Play Festival this August: Front Window premieres Aug 15th and Dreaming of Sexual Healing, Sort Of.

This week has seen the launch of ITV’s new series, Unsaid Stories.

Riverside Studios today announces a screening of the British World War II drama Summerland and a live Q&A with award-winning director and writer Jessica Swale following its nationwide release on 31 July 2020.

The Turbine Theatre has announced its upcoming lineup through the end of the year.

Theatres and music venues will be able to reopen in England beginning on Saturday.

Birmingham Stage Company today announce further London tour dates for its run of Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain.

New Adventures announced today that the forthcoming 2020/2021 National tour and the 2020/2021 Christmas season at Sadler's Wells of Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! has been postponed until 2021/2022.

Today the National Theatre announces its commitment to begin creating new work again, with plans to resume socially-distanced live performances in the Olivier Theatre in late October.

Layton Williams will be headlining his own concert as part of the West End Musical Drive-In series on 29 August

With over 600 tickets sold, 1,911 suggestions for musical theatre styles, songs and settings, and a total of 1,184 views for their first ever socially distanced livestream, Olivier Award winners and Fringe favourites The Showstoppers are back with another socially distanced and completely improvised

Evening Standard has reported that the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has penned a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, outlining eight steps that need to be taken in order to revive London business in the wake of the global health crisis.

Actors, writers and directors including Bristol Old Vic Theatre School graduates Patrick Stewart and Trudie Styler, Toby Jones (Messiah), Games of Thrones' Patrick Malahide, Lesley Manville (Long Day's Journey Into Night), former writer-in-residence Kwame Kwei-Armah and Samuel West (Les Liaisons Dan

On March 16 2020, The Last Five Years at Southwark Playhouse was cut short owing to the global pandemic.