As a young theatre company, Up In Arms has already traversed the best new writing stages with two plays written by their co-Artistic Director, Barney Norris. When I spoke to him, and his …
Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore | Unicorn Theatre | 9 March By Gary Owen Directed by Tim Crouch Unicorn Lates: Wed 9 March, 7pm (live music from 6.30pm) Enjoy a nostalgic night at…
After the success of Robert Icke's Oresteia and 1984, it's no wonder that the anticipation around the Almeida's latest classic adaptation, of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, has been high. It is a sl…
Win a pair of tickets to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Lyric Hammersmith A Midsummer Night's Dream | 19 February " 19 March 2016 | William Shakespeare A Lyric Hammersmith …
Royal Theatrical Support Trust Director Award for emerging directors launched with Sheffield Theatres The Royal Theatrical Support Trust (RTST), and Sheffield Theatres have announced a new a…
There are six performers. Dressed loosely in grey, each stands alone on stage. Slowly, we watch them contort. Their bodies strangulate as their eyes fix upon us. Five people alone in their p…
Which were your top shows of 2015? We asked the members of our team for their favourites. You can meet us all here if you want to. If not, carry on reading to see what theatre, dance and per…
#Haters tells the true story of a stabbing in Hackney in 2014 and the internet furore that occurred in its wake. It tells it through two male characters who embody the cultural clash ('gentr…
The National Rural Touring Forum (NRTF) has launched a search for performers, artists and companies for their bi-annual rural touring showcase festival, New Directions, which will take place…
The brilliant International Youth Arts Festival (IYAF) will be illuminating Kingston once again this July, highlighting the very best of youth arts – theatre, music, dance, spoken word…
The overture to Funny Girl, in this first revival since its first iconic run in the sixties, is accompanied by a dance of pink-blue spectrum of lighting colours over the gauze curtain. It's …
Radar 2015 is the Bush's signature, eclectic mix of new writing presented as a festival each year. Some of the work is new and fresh but already famous (This is How We Die by Christopher Bre…
Perhaps the only truly relevant aspect of Waste, at the National Theatre, is that the white upper classes deal with the country’s politics, and avert their private lives away from publ…
In the National Theatre’s latest figuration of As You Like It, Shakespeare’s most well-loved greenworld comedy becomes a pastoral retreat from the bright corporate drills of mode…
Never have I ever…. Written a review about a drinking game. *Drinks* For those who have miraculously escaped the most notorious of confessional drinking games, ‘I Have Never’ b…
How far would you go to avoid the truth? Pa Ubu goes spectacularly far, to the extent that ‘truth’ becomes farcically undermined as a concept in late 90s South Africa where this …
Song of Riots by Awake Projects & The North Wall Battersea Arts Centre Until 17 October Written by Lucy Maycock. Directed by Christopher Sivertsen & Lucy Maycock Part of A Nations …
The Royal Exchange, Manchester has launched a 12 month creative speechmaking programme inspired by TED Talks, as part of the Truth about Youth series. On Monday 9 November, TaY at the Royal …
The subtitle for Tasmin Oglesby's punchy play interrogating the education system could well be #checkyourprivilege. But it manages this without lecturing, or schooling, or being shouty. Inst…
One Minute by Simon Stephens Delirium Theatre 7 September – 3 October In a tender, fragmentary story about the inarticulacy of grief, this 2003 play by Olivier and Tony award winning p…
Salome by Oscar Wilde Thêatre Libre 1 – 19 September (7.30pm Tues-Sat; 6pm Sun) "She is monstrous, thy daughter…" 

A young, beautiful socialite wakes up, uploads a se…
The Man Who Had All the Luck at the King’s Head Theatre By Arthur Miller. Produced by End of Moving Walkway. 2-27 September Everything David Beeves touches turns to gold. He has a beau…
Tricycle Young Company is an opportunity for young people to develop their skills as theatre makers working alongside the professionals. Three groups, for 11-14s, 15-18s & 19-25s meet we…
Applications are now open for The Old Vic 12, a new scheme that will support 12 emerging artists looking to make the next step in their careers. The scheme will offer The Old Vic 12 an oppor…
Assistant Director bursary offered by Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Playhouse, in partnership with The JMK Trust, is looking for a South West based Assistant Director to work on its upcoming…