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It is announced today that British television star Blake Harrison, best known for playing Neil Sutherland in the BAFTA-winning E4 comedy The Inbetweeners, will join the cast of Waitress as Ogie from 17 June.

Final casting is today announced for Tennessee William's The Night of the Iguana which begins a strictly limited season at the Noel Coward Theatre on Saturday 6th July.

David McVicar's acclaimed production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro returns to The Royal Opera for its sixth revival since its 2006 premiere.

Prasanna Puwanarajah's revival of Venice Preserved brings the look of the show right up to date - its narrative is very 21st century, so needed nothing.

Mazz Murray was most recently seen as Mama Morton in Chicago at the Phoenix Theatre.

As the United Kingdom waits to see who will be the next prime minister, a production focusing on the relationship between PM and the Queen could not be more perfectly timed.

Sheridan Smith and Jason Donovan will perform a medley of hits from the musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on next week's Britain's Got Talent semi-finals.

We haven't seen a lot of Smetana's The Bartered Bride in the UK recently.

Tennessee Williams's first success The Glass Menagerie lands at Arcola Theatre in an exciting and tremendously thought-provoking production directed by Femi Elufowoju jr.

It happens every now and then that a reputation becomes so prominent, it's hard to see the person inside of it.

Patrick Kennedy Phenomenological Theatre and Clamour Theatre today announces a specially reworked centenary production of HALBWELT KULTUR, an all-female queer cabaret celebrating the pioneering women of the Weimar Republic, playing at The Other Palace Studio for two performances on Saturday 28 Septe

After a sold-out debut at The Other Palace last year, Love Is Only Love returns to headline this year's Pride celebrations.

Further performers have been revealed for Park Theatre's World Premiere murder mystery Whodunnit [Unrehearsed], as Adam Hills, Jason Manford, Neil Morrissey, Clarke Peters and Sandi Toksvig - with the voice of Miriam Margolyes - join the stellar list of participants.

The first major stage production of Louis de Bernieres' best-selling novel, CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN will transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End from 4 July to 31 August following rave reviews and a hugely successful UK tour.

WICKED, the West End and Broadway musical sensation that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, has announced that Nikki Bentley and Helen Woolf will lead the new London cast as Elphaba and Glinda respectively, alongside the previously announced Alistair Brammer as Fiyero, from Mond

This autumn will see Matthew Xia's inaugural production as artistic director of Actors Touring Company.

Marisha Wallace moved to the UK to take on the role of Effie White in Dreamgirls at the Savoy Theatre.

A decade after originating the lead role Off Broadway, Matthew Broderick returns to Kenneth Lonergan's play to make his West End debut.

Kate Budgen's production of The Importance of Being Earnest at The Watermill Theatre is laugh-a-minute funny.

Head First Acrobats return to Brighton Fringe, bringing their new Wild West themed show, Railed, to the Spiegeltent.

There's something magical about watching Shakespeare at the Globe theatre, especially on a sunny summer evening.

Rain gushes down the front of the Lyttelton stage, a pitiless wall of water trapping and framing the Rutherfords - a clan very much defined by their environment.

The Citizens Theatre has announced that the critically acclaimed Nora: A Doll's House, written by Stef Smith, will be staged at the Young Vic in Spring 2020.

Young Vic Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah has announced the Programme for 2020.

Ashley Roberts is a former member of the Pussycat Dolls and Strictly Come Dancing 2018 finalist.