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A two-week festival dedicated to showcasing new musical theatre will run next year at the Other Palace in London, including a new
A charity is fundraising to buy a double-decker bus to bring free music lessons to children in deprived areas. The Music on
The Wizard of Oz is a joyously ridiculous story enshrined in kitsch pop culture " a family favourite that's essentially about learning
The Nutcracker, with its sense of childhood wonderment, magic at midnight and corps of shimmering snowflakes, is the Christmas staple of the
Don't kids just say the funniest things? Well, maybe not in Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment's show That Night Follows Day "
While David Edgar's take on A Christmas Carol plays on the Royal Shakespeare Company's main stage, the Swan is home to Shakespeare's
Adapting their 2011 movie Killing Bono " itself an adaptation of music critic Neil McCormick's only-slightly-bitter memoirs " writers Dick Clement and
Around this time of year, when critics start compiling their best of the year lists and then thinking about their resolutions for
The note inserted into the programme for the US premiere of Nassim could not be more understated. It begins: "Nassim Soleimanpour was
Part of Antony McDonald's brief from director of the Royal Opera Oliver Mears in creating his new, self-designed staging has been to
Alun Armstrong's Edward is retiring after 45 years at the same comprehensive school – a career which included doling out strokes to
On stage and screen, Christmas tends to look a certain way: twinkling tree, glistening turkey, picture-perfect nuclear family. The new seasonal show
The popularity of L Frank Baum's fantasy world shows no sign of waning, with at least three Oz adaptations being staged in
The rock and roll panto format as become a seasonal fixture at the Stafford Gatehouse. This year's offering is as pop-tastic as
Miranda's world is dark. Beyond early hints at an abusive dad, and a nan who endured hardship as an immigrant and is
Christopher Biggins arrives on stage as Widow Twankey in a cake emblazoned with a great 20â„¢ and the curtain call ends with
Wayne Rollins' Abanazar is a deliciously evil panto villain. In his quest for world domination, he learns of a wish-granting genie that
A second fringe venue from the team behind the Bread and Roses pub theatre in Clapham is to launch in north London.
Derby Council has approved a £24 million redevelopment of the city’s Assembly Rooms. The project will restore the venue, which was destroyed
There's a touch of old-fashioned charm to the Watford Palace Theatre's panto this year " not that there's anything wrong with that.
The National Theatre has bravely chosen to give one of its festive December slots to Anthony Neilson for a stage adaptation of
Scottish comedy legends the Krankies return to Glasgow’s Armadillo at the SEC after two years away in a version of Qdos Productions'
Writer, poet and politician Victor Hugo is revered as one of the towering cultural figures of 19th-century Europe but less known was
Say Spymonkey and all thoughts of a traditional telling of A Christmas Carol can be forgotten. Their retelling of Charles Dickens' classic
The first research into freelance workers in dance for more than a decade has been commissioned, in an effort to better understand
