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Mike Lew's Teenage Dick has just opened at the Donmar Warehouse.

After being in Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, Ellie Morris is joining Mischief Theatre once more to star as Sandra in The Play That Goes Wrong.

After 40 years of leadership, Jatinder Verma is stepping down as artistic director of Tara Arts in January.

Ahead of their opening performance tomorrow, Saturday 21 December, the cast of the fairest panto in the land gathered on stage for a first look at the dazzling costumes and sets featured in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which plays at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 2 February 2020.

The Welkin is at the National Theatre from 15th January until 28 March, with further performances to be announced, and will be streamed as part of National Theatre Live on Thursday 21 May.

Shakespeare's Globe has opened its doors during the winter season for the first time to host Sandi Toksvig's Christmas at the (Snow) Globe which she created with her sister Jenifer.

Get a first look at the cast of the King's Head Theatre's revival of Kevin Elyot's Coming Clean in rehearsals.

Matt Lucas will step in to play the role of Thénardier in the new production of LES MISERABLES at the newly refurbished Sondheim Theatre in the West End where performances began on Wednesday.

Gemma Dobson is currently making her West End debut in A Taste of Honey alongside Jodie Prenger at the Trafalgar Studios.

Hannah Waddingham (three- time Olivier nominated as Kate/Lilli Vanessi in 'Kiss Me Kate' Desiree Armfeldt in 'A Little Night Music' and The Lady of The Lake in 'Monty Python's Spamalot'), Steph Parry(Dorothy Brock in '42nd Street' and Donna in 'Mamma Mia' ) and Emma Norman (Mrs Lovett,' Sweeney Todd

Photos have been released of the cast of the London transfer of Hope Mill Theatre's RAGS in rehearsal.

As the decade comes to a close, many of us are all left feeling a little more bruised by the world than we felt in 2010.

Everybody's Talking About Jamie has given fans a first look at Noah Thomas, the West End's next Jamie!

'Messiah' is probably Handel's best-known piece; written in 1741, the oratorio was originally composed for Easter time, but you don't have to travel far to find a performance of it at this time of year.

Jason Schofield has been charged with the murder of his wife.

The Young Vic today announces YV:IDemystify, a free programme of specialist events for theatre creators and makers launching in January 2020.

Olivier Award-winning and internationally-acclaimed Irish theatre company, Fishamble: The New Play Company, will be bringing its production of On Blueberry Hill to the West End in Spring 2020.

Richard Eyre's production gets yet another run out 25 years on, but it's so beautiful and brilliantly sung, no further justification is required.

For those on stage, an opening night can be the stuff of nightmares.

Waitress the musical will welcome Evelyn Hoskins (Assassins, Spring Awakening) to the role of Dawn in the New Year while original London cast member Marisha Wallace (Dreamgirls, Aladdin) is also announced to return to the West End production.

The Wolf of Wall Street immersive production's days are numbered as FBI officers swooped in on the Belfort premises on Sun Street in an immersive sting operation.

2020 is already shaping up to be an incredible year of theatre.

Musical theatre sensation Lucie Jones, star of hit musical Waitress, performs her first West End solo concert at the historic Adelphi Theatre on Sunday 16 February 2020 at 7pm.