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Seventeen venues across the UK have been added to the Theatre Buildings at Risk Register, including the Theatre Royal Margate, Darlington Arts Centre and the Warehouse Theatre in Croydon.
London's Lyric Hammersmith has announced its autumn/winter season, featuring a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms.
Girl power puts West End musical Viva Forever! in the spotlight, Britain's Got Talent winner turns his paw to Dick Whittington, and Michael McIntyre's fringe prices are no laughing matterPho…
Superstar, the ITV talent show to find a lead for Andrew Lloyd Webber's revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, will launch next week.
St James Theatre, the long-awaited replacement for the Westminster Theatre which was demolished in 2002, will open this September with a new play by Sandy Toksvig and a musical created by Jo…
Equity's ruling council has agreed to a streamlined democratic structure for the union, which will now be put to a referendum of its members.
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has proposed that digital arts channel The Space become a permanent venture, with funded cultural organisations required to provide content for it as part of th…
The National Theatre's Frankenstein is to be shown in a cinema in Beijing, marking the first time one of the NT's productions has been screened in China.
Theatreland enjoys heartening box-office figures in early 2012, but students are staying away from drama schools. It's still a good year for Sir Michael Boyd, thoughSpring breakLondon's Thea…
Sky1 has unveiled a series of new drama and comedy commisions, including an eight-part drama series from Lucy Kirkwood.
London theatres have posted strong results for the first quarter of 2012, with attendances up by 11% on the same period last year, driven by an especially strong performance by plays.
London's Old Vic Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company are among 34 arts organisations sharing funds from a new £56 million government scheme designed to kick-start endowments in t…
Indhu Rubasingham has announced her first season as artistic director of The Tricycle in London, launching with a new play about 19th century black actor Ira Aldridge, played by Adrian Leste…
A new stage musical version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is to open at the London Palladium in June 2013.
Paris cabaret Crazy Horse is to perform in London this September in a purpose-built spiegeltent on the South Bank.
Judi Dench, Daniel Radcliffe and Jude Law set for West End stage, Max Stafford-Clark opens up rehearsals and a French ballet company hatches a plan for Swan Lake with real swansGalacticosA v…
Michael Grandage has announced his first project after leaving the Donmar Warehouse - a 15-month season of work in the West End with casts including Judi Dench, Daniel Radcliffe, Simon Russe…
Internet communications company Skype has signed a deal with Qdos Entertainment to sponsor the producer's 24 pantomimes across the UK this Christmas.
Two of the UK's foremost performing arts training organisations have merged to create a body responsible for championing and improving drama training at all levels across the country.
Don Warrington and Gwen Taylor are to star in a UK tour of Driving Miss Daisy, following the play's recent revival in the West End.
Sheridan Smith will play the title role in a revival of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen at London's Old Vic Theatre.
Curtain theatre is unearthed in east London, a Burmese political comedian is to play his first UK gig and Brits on Broadway get ready to take on the TonysCurtain upThe remains of the London …
Rowan Atkinson is to star in the West End revival of Quartermaine's Terms by Simon Gray.
Broadway musical The Book of Mormon will transfer to the West End in February 2013, producers have announced.
Tony Christie, Janie Dee and Miss Polly Rae will be among the first acts to perform at the London Hippodrome when the site reopens as a casino in July.
