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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.

Dear Peter hones in on the joys of childhood, the hardships of growing older, and the strength human beings can muster when the odds are against them.

Amazon Prime Video will make a £500,000 donation to Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman's Theatre Community Fund

Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Suits), Robbie Williams (Take That), David Mitchell (Peep Show), Aimee Lou Wood (Netflix's Sex Education) and the stars of West End musical Dear Evan Hansen are among the nominees for The Stage Debut Awards 2020, in association with Access Entertainment.

Typical, a powerful and urgent exploration about how society stereotypes Black masculinity is the subject of a brand-new film created by award-winning creative movement Nouveau Riche and Soho Theatre, London's leading producer of new theatre, comedy and cabaret.

​​​​​​​Caspa Productions today announces the cast for their new immersive production, SQUAD GOALS by Michelle Payne, opening at the Dagenham & Redbridge FC Football Stadium in September.

Sadlera??s Wells has entered a consultation process with our permanent and fixed term staff, following the devastating impact of the coronavirus crisis on the theatre's operations, the continued closure of the theatres and ongoing uncertainty about when they may be able to reopen fully.

Fanny & Stella is the debut production at The Garden Theatre, situated in The Eagle pub's beer garden in Vauxhall.

Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are postponing the release of their Back Together concert in cinemas to 17 October.

For the first time ever at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, from 19 August performances of Jesus Christ Superstar: The Concert, will be relayed 'live' to up to 5,000 additional ticketholders via a giant screen on the venue's lawn.

The Theatre Producer Portal came about to encourage the sharing of resources and contacts within the industry

Mike Bartlett's production of Albion is being broadcast on BBC Four.

150 days since the last performance of The Phantom of the Opera in the West End, the most recent actor to play Christine has said it came as a massive shock when the cast, crew and orchestra were released from their contracts with the news that the show would be overhauled with a new version of the

Opening tonight is the first London Fringe production since Lockdown, a brand new socially distanced open-air production of ‘Fanny And Stella’, a musical with Book and Lyrics by Glenn Chandler, the creator of ‘Taggart’, and Music by Charles Miller.

The English National Opera (ENO) announces the full details of the first ENO Drive & Live - Europe's first live drive-in opera production that audiences can safely experience from their cars.

Mamma Mia! cast members and stage management have been released from their contracts.

Among the hopeful shoots of returning theatre is a new concert version of Stephen Sondheima??s A Little Night Music, coming to Opera Holland Park on 15 August.

Recovering Misogynist is confessional and internal, and in that way it suits the digital format of the audience streaming it on a laptop

With everything that continues to go on around us, it is incredible that we are still managing to be creative and produce new work, such as The Rhythmics, which has just been released as a studio album.

Today four of the biggest pantomimes in London announce their postponement to 2021.

London Theatre Company has made plans to re-open the Bridge Theatre during September and October, assuming that the Government gives the go ahead for indoor performances with socially distanced audiences.

The album for brand-new life affirming musical THE RHYTHMICS, is now available via Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other digital platforms.

West End star and Dear Evan Hansen's current title character Sam Tutty is taking part in Michael Strassen's 50th anniversary celebrations of Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebalak's Godspell.

One Night Only will reunite cast members and creatives of 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' for a special virtual event held on Friday, September 4, 2020 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM GMT.