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BBC has released a new clip from episode 6 of Staged, featuring Judi Dench - watch as she puts the actors 'in their place' as only she can.

Paul Tabone, who has played Ubaldo Piangi in Phantom of the Opera on the West End for four years, chatted recently with The Sydney Morning Herald about what he's been doing during the lockdown.

Be among the first to experience a brand new, fully improvised musical live streamed directly to your home from Edinburgh FringeFavourites and Olivier Award Winners, The Showstoppers.

A group of performers from the world of theatre, folk and opera are joining together to create a special online gig for the charity Diabetes UK.

There were few greater joys in dance in 2019 than English National Ballet's Cinderella-in-the-round, which played to full auditoriums for 10 days last summer in London.

On the July 6 episode of Mountview Live, Mountview alum Benjamin Lafayette met Kwame Kwei-Armah!

The latest NT at Home digital offering is Terence Rattigan's 1952 play The Deep Blue Sea, which was performed at the National Theatre in 2016.

During today's Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the House of Commons, The Cotswolds MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown asked whether smaller theatres will be included in the £1.

West End stars Marisha Wallace, Wendy Mae Brown, Cavin Cornwall, Tyrone Huntley and Hugh Maynard have reunited with The British Theatre Academy Ensemble from their critically acclaimed production of a?oeThe Color Purple in Concerta?? to record the title number as a fundraiser.

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden says that further details of when theatres will be able to reopen will be published 'imminently.

'THE DRIVE IN' at TROUBADOUR MERIDIAN WATER, located in the heart of the regeneration area of Enfield, was the UK's highest grossing cinema during its opening weekend.

Arts Council England will prioritize artists and individuals when it reopens its grant programme this month.

Nearly four months ago, it was announced that Joe Hill-Gibbins will be the next artistic director of Headlong Theatre.

Songwriter Cat has a commercial hit record under her belt and should be on top of the world.

Michael Harrison and David Ian announced today rescheduled dates for the world premiere of MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING THE MUSICAL.

When the lockdown started in mid March, theatres all over the country were forced to shut down in a hurry.

In the second of the new monologues and the last in the series, two women grieve for the same person (who happened to be two different men).

BBC News has reported that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will cut VAT on hospitality as part of a £30bn plan to prevent mass unemployment in the UK due to the health crisis.

Equity has released a statement via their website regarding the Chancellor's plans for jobs in the UK.

Theatrical superstars Sharon D.

Metta Theatre and Aria Entertainment are joining forces to produce a brand-new life affirming musical THE RHYTHMICS.

The Show Must Go Online today announce the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed reading of William Shakespeare's The History of Henry IV Part II on 8 July.

With the Royal Shakespeare Company's theatres currently closed to the public, RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran has invited Associate and Honorary Associate Artists from throughout the Company's history to join him for an exclusive series of online conversations discussing their experience of perf

Original Theatre Company's recent critically acclaimed, innovative online production of Rachel Wagstaff's adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's best-selling novel Birdsong has spurred the company on to produce another online production while theatres remain closed to live performances.

Technically excellent and engaging, the penultimate episode in this splendid reboot is let down by stakes that seem too slight to warrant our full emotional investment.