Park Theatre's JJ Almond joins Assembly Hall Tunbridge Wells
John-Jackson Almond has been appointed theatre director of the Assembly Hall Theatre in Tunbridge Wells. Almond is currently executive director of the
John-Jackson Almond has been appointed theatre director of the Assembly Hall Theatre in Tunbridge Wells. Almond is currently executive director of the
James Shapiro has won this year's Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography. Shapiro, who is a professor at Columbia University in New
Broadway musical Side Show will receive its UK premiere later this year at Southwark Playhouse. The show, which first ran in New
Musical theatre performer Louise Plowright, known for her roles in Mamma Mia! and Wicked, has died aged 59. Plowright, who also appeared
Kneehigh’s pop-up theatre, the Asylum, is to return for a sixth year, staging three shows throughout the summer. The purpose-built tent will
Performers Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton have praised the theatre sector for its diversity, claiming it is better than in the film
Collaboration can be the key to producing new work. Here, the dancer tells Georgia Snow how personal traumatic experiences inspired the creation
Tamzin Outhwaite, Nicholas Le Prevost and Jenny Seagrove are to star in How the Other Half Loves in the West End. They
Theatre503 artistic director Paul Robinson has been appointed to lead the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. Robinson, who has run the Battersea-based
IN DETAIL: Click here for a full list of this year’s nominations Imelda Staunton, Judi Dench, Mark Rylance and Kenneth Branagh are among the
Performers including Clare Higgins and Matthew Tennyson are among the winners at the 2016 Off West End Awards, also known as the
Sky has launched the fifth year of its arts scholarship programme, which will include comedy and film categories for the first time.
Chorus members at English National Opera will strike for the first time in 13 years in response to proposed changes to their
Jenna Russell and Jade Anouka have joined the cast of Doctor Faustus at the Duke of York’s Theatre, as the show also
A director who was at the centre of a row over actors’ wages has set up a new theatre company, with a
A new scheme to help bloggers cover the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been launched. The project, called the Network of Independent Critics,
A new production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest leads the theatre programme for the 2016 Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Kim Noble and Belgian
Wales Millennium Centre and Welsh National Opera are among the major organisations to have suffered funding cuts under Arts Council of Wales'
David Baddiel is to premiere his new show, My Family: Not the Sitcom, at the Menier Chocolate Factory later this year. It
After initially training as a prop maker, Nouri has worked on a range of theatre projects as well as in film. He
The Isango Ensemble is to return to the Young Vic for the UK premiere of A Man of Good Hope later this
Meera Syal has joined the cast of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company’s Romeo and Juliet. She will perform alongside the previously announced
Edinburgh venue operator Sweet will run a programme at the Brighton Fringe for the first time this year. The 2016 fringe, which
Ron Cook is to join the cast of Faith Healer at the Donmar Warehouse. Cook will appear alongside the previously announced Stephen
The Family Arts Campaign has announced that its festival will run for a full month in 2016, making it the largest since