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Following the news this week that his latest Roy Grace novel, FIND THEM DEAD, has gone straight to No.

The prop car from the UK tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang recently sold at auction for £19,000, and was purchased by Derbyshire-based Bowden Theatre Works

On May 25th 2020, a police officer in Minneapolis killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds.

Playwright Ella Road achieved critical acclaim with her play The Phlebotomist, which was nominated for an Olivier Award after a run at both Hampstead Theatre Downstairs and its main stage.

London's leading classical-crossover girl group, Ida Girls London, have released their new medley Stars, featuring songs from the long-running musical theatre show Les Misérables, in support of a cause close to their hearts.

Every time the curtain goes up on a Gecko show, there is a settling in period in which we have to get the audience on board.

The stories career along at the speed of a subway train, barely giving a moment for the dilemmas so skilfully set up to be mentally processed before another comes along to knock you off balance.

BritBox subscribers can now enjoy comedies, tragedies, ballets and operas from the UK's preeminent performers at home, as the service expands to support the British performing arts from 23rd July.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF), London's leading festival of outdoor theatre and performing arts, today announces its forthcoming programme, running from 28 August - 12 September 2020 in locations across Royal Greenwich and East London.

Marquee TV will be celebrating the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company by showcasing a selection of performances from the Company's 2019/20 season.

West End star David Hunter ('Waitress', 'Kinky Boots', 'Once') and actor/singer-songwriter, Caroline Kay ('The Clockmaker's Daughter'), have come together virtually  - having never before met in person - to write, perform, and record a new Musical Short, 'The Space Between'.

From 14 August, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre will produce a special concert staging of their production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar.

Nigel Slater's Toast is an online play a?" part radio play, part animated film.

Intermissions in a live online interactive experience hosted by Alice Fearn, feat.

Undone is an extraordinary examination of what it feels like to live in a world that appears more layered than linear, the past poking into the present so often that the boundaries soon cease to have any real meaning.

The Donmar Warehouse is to reopen temporarily from 3 to 22 August with a socially distanced sound installation - Blindness, based on the dystopian novel by Nobel-prize winning José Saramago, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Walter Meierjohann.

The Royal Shakespeare company has today confirmed full performance dates for its previously scheduled productions of The Magician's Elephant and The Wars of The Roses Part 1 and 2 which will now take place in Winter 2021.

Fans of Jason Robert Brown will be embracing the opportunity to witness a fresh production of Songs From A New World.

The Stage has reported that a new survey of more than 8,000 participants has found that a quarter of freelance theatre workers have been unable to access emergency income and a third are considering leaving the industry.

Equity has released a briefing for its members via its website on guidelines for returning to work in live performance.

The Brilliant musician and composer George Fenton sat down with celebrity interviewer and theatre historian Neil Sean to chat through his new album and massive back catalogue a?" What became apparent was George is no ordinary composer taking on a vast cross section of work loved world-wide.

Two-time OnComm award-winning The Show Must Go Online today announce the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed reading of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

Northern Musical Theatre Orchestra has created a Lockdown Orchestra performance of The Phantom of the Opera, as its latest NMTO Project!

What Club11 London has always done so brilliantly is unite communities, and Turn Up London is perhaps their most effective and important example of that.

This week the Royal Opera House has announced in partnership with The Luna Drive In Cinema, broadcasts of four Royal Opera House favourites at iconic drive-in cinema locations around the country.