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Multi award-winning director Kristine Landon-Smith will revive celebrated French playwright Jean Anouilh's neglected classic The Orchestra.

Multi-award-winning drama The Madness of George III is currently being broadcast live to cinemas, in National Theatre Live's first ever broadcast from Nottingham Playhouse.

English Touring Theatre announces its partnership with Digital Theatre on a film of Othello for Digital Theatre Plus, the company's education platform plus a nationwide programme of engagement work, The Othello Project running alongside the UK tour of Othello.

In January 2019, All That Productions in collaboration with The Other Palace are launching a brand new scratch night of new musical theatre.

Some of the biggest stars of London's theatre scene will perform at what could be the most Christmassy concert in the capital this December, as West End and Broadway star Michael Xavier hosts Christmas with the Stars, accompanied by the students of the MX Masterclass.

Arcola Theatre in association with Maya Ellis today announce the full cast for the world premiere of Gabriel Gbadamosi's Stop and Search.

Indian action epic Baahubali: The Beginning will become the first ever South Asian movie in the Royal Albert Hall's Films in Concert series - taking its place alongside James Bond and Harry Potter - when it arrives with a full orchestra next year.

Strictly fans will be thrilled to learn that the first couples to appear on next year's Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour have been announced as documentary maker Stacey Dooley and Aljaž Škorjanec, This Morning's Dr Ranj Singh and Janette Manrara, and YouTube sensation Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswel

Internationally acclaimed Actors Touring Company has today announced the appointment of Matthew Xia as its new Artistic Director.

Keith McLeish takes on larger-than-life panto dame Fairy B in Sleepin' Cutie at Macrobert Arts Centre in Stirling, playing until 31 December.

On Monday 26 November, The National Youth Theatre hosted its annual fundraising gala, this year to the theme 'Puttin' on the Blitz Kidz' at Cafe de Paris, and was attended by VIP guests, past alumni and current NYT performers.

With detailed explanatory notes for every piece of its 75-strong compilation, this must-have guide is sure to bolster the confidence of those lining up to take part in the most important minutes of their lives.

This fascinating tome offers an insider's history of the National Theatre, via some 800 letters exchanged between Artistic Directors, actors, directors, playwrights, politicians, agents, critics and more.

I have always wanted to join the cast of Room on the Broom.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that Elliot Harper will play Miss Trunchbull in Matilda The Musical's UK and Ireland Tour from Tuesday 15 January at Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Award-winning Atticist have announced the stellar cast who will bring to life Outlying Islands this January - a revival of Scottish playwright David Greig's powerful play, not seen in London since 2002.

Tori Scott returns to the UK this December following her smash-hit run at this summer's Edinburgh Festival.

The hit show Snowman is back at The Peacock Theatre.

Fresh from his sold out 5 Alive U.

Following his starring role in the critically acclaimed Netflix series Queer Eye and Emmy-nominated series Gay of Thrones, Jonathan Van Ness announces his 2019 U.

After a sold-out run at Oxford University, composer Maria Shepard took her musical based on Lev Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for a one-night engagement at The Actors' Church in London as part of Iris Theatre's Workin Process.

Chatting to the teams at the Prince Edward Theatre (Aladdin) and the Theatre Royal Haymarket (Heathers the Musical), both explained how being 'a people person' is so key to the role.

An Honourable Man is bold in its ambition and gets a lot of details right, but its excellent first half gives way to a theatrically disappointing conclusion.

The Union Theatre in Southwark continues to remember the brave First World War Leeds Pals in Benjamin Till's award-winning musical, BRASS.

Two years after its sell-out run at Oxford University, Anna Karenina, an original musical based on Lev Tolstoy's world-famous novel, makes its London debut with an orchestra and 13-strong cast drawn from the best talent at the University.