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Irish comedian Aisling Bea has been announced as the winner of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's stand-up comedy competition, Foster's So You Think You're Funny? Award.
Producers of forthcoming West End musical Let It Be have revealed they auditioned 2,500 people to find performers who could play The Beatles on stage.
Education campaigners have accused the government of setting back primary school drama teaching by 30 years, after draft proposals were unveiled for the new national curriculum.
Battersea Arts Centre is developing a programme to create a network of independent artistic practitioners across Europe.
Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards has revealed the shortlist for this year's best comedy show and best newcomer categories, which includes a repeat nomination for Josie Long.
Touring arts organisations, including children's arts venue Zion Arts Centre, arts engagement charity Disability and Deaf Arts and contemporary performance producers DEP Arts Ltd, have been …
West End representatives, including theatre leaders, have called for submissions of evidence from local businesses and stakeholders about the problems affecting the area, as part of a newly …
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has lent his support to a campaign designed to attract tourists to the West End post the Olympic Games.
Theatre design consultancy Charcoalblue is set to open a studio in New York.
Gavin Shuman has been appointed as general manager of London's New Wimbledon Theatre, replacing Samantha Bain, who has worked at the venue for more than a decade.
Battersea Arts Centre has announced its autumn season, called September Cook Up 2012, which will feature a reinterpretation of John Cage's Indeterminacy starring comedian Stewart Lee and a s…
Felixstowe's Spa Pavilion theatre is under threat of demolition after the local council failed in its initial bid to find a new operator for it.
London's Leicester Square Theatre has announced its first horror festival, which will include a stage adaptation of the novel Dracula and a selection of plays written by Colin Hoult.
West London's Bush Theatre is teaming up with the Corinthia Hotel in Westminster to create a performance to be staged at the venue, using hotel guests as part of the show.
New plays from writers Rona Munro and Steve Waters plus a performance by Pentabus Theatre will feature during the autumn season in Hampstead Theatre's Downstairs space.
Sadler's Wells has been awarded £600,000 from the Monument Trust to support its new work, which includes a ballet developed by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
Barking's Broadway Theatre has announced it will live stream its autumn season online, including a new play starring Shameless actor Ciaran Griffiths and stand-up from Mock the Week comedian…
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has commissioned a report to look into creating a major London arts festival to be held every two years.
The OperaUpClose production of La Boheme, along with new play The Man On Her Mind, directed by Bruce Guthrie, will feature as part of the Charing Cross Theatre's autumn season.
The Musicians' Union has launched a nationwide research project to assess the working lives of music professionals.
Dance UK has launched a mentoring scheme for dancers to further their careers as industry leaders.
Gerard McCarthy and Oliver Wilson will join the previously announced Robert Bathurst in the cast of Blue/Orange.
Flagship children's venue the Unicorn Theatre in London has become the latest arts organisation to suspend its internship programme after concerns were raised about the company's failure to …
The Arts Theatre has announced that Suzanne Shaw, Richard Mylan, Nicola Stapleton, Charlie De'ath and Dan Wilder have been cast in the new play Baggage.
Equity is launching a campaign to oppose insurance companies' practice of charging higher premiums for actors.
