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Birmingham Repertory Theatre executive director Stuart Rogers is to leave the company after 17 years. News of his departure comes after it
Working in tandem with Scottish writers and composers of contemporary musical theatre Noisemaker (Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie), Dundee Rep Ensemble and
Pitch-black and wickedly funny, Jermyn Street Theatre's seasonal offering Burke and Hare (first performed at the Watermill earlier this year) is a
This year's Mercury Theatre pantomime takes the seed of a traditional fairytale, Jack and the Beanstalk, and feeds it a Miracle Gro
The Charles Court Opera annual pantomime has become an Islington tradition. Artistic director and author John Savournin enjoys subverting classic stories and
Twenty years after its first outing at Belfast's Lyric Theatre, Paul Boyd's colourful helter-skelter ride down a rabbit hole into Wonderland returns
While Scottish panto legend Johnny McKnight, who writes the pantomimes for both the Macrobert in Stirling and the Tron in Glasgow, usually
With only a month to go before 2019, the centenary of the 1918 Armistice is marked in operatic form with this widely
The Old Vic and Headlong Theatre's production of All My Sons will be broadcast to cinemas around the UK as part of
In our sparkly pantomime special, Doctor Who star Sharon D Clarke and her wife, panto expert Susie McKenna, discuss their enduring love
Watching panto at the Playhouse is like sitting in front of a log fire with all the family home for Christmas. It
The Stage’s annual ticketing survey published last week showed that the average top-price ticket across all West End shows is £117.52, up 19%
The Wales Theatre Awards have been cancelled permanently, following a row over diversity earlier this year. The move comes after an open
The Royal Opera House is transforming its newly refurbished Paul Hamlyn Hall into a ballet studio for a day, when dancers will
Steve Marmion's pantomime brings a taste of London to the Oxford Playhouse stage in his take on Dick Whittington and His Cat.
Light, bright, and cheerful, Andrew Pollard's Robinson Crusoe is a breezy adventure with a few subversive twists. After a boilerplate first half
There is plenty for audiences to chew over in Ella Hickson’s clever and contemporary adaptation of Peter Pan. Based on JM Barrie’s
This is the Christmas show for people who hate Christmas shows. Anthony Neilson's one-act 1995 comedy The Night Before Christmas, revived confidently
Theatr Clwyd maintains its consistently high panto standards with this year's rock'n'roll show, Dick Whittington. Christian Patterson's script manages to remain incredibly
This is both Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper’s 10th pantomime for Above the Stag and their first in its new building in
True West, Vaudeville Theatre, London Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn " so wonderfully menacing in Martin McDonagh's Hangmen " star in Matthew Dunster's
"There are two elephants in this room", the Polish director Jan Klata said to the audience assembled at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in
Well blow me down, it looks as if the ground is starting to shift. The welcome appointment of Matthew Xia to head
Mark Beer was one of the first disabled actors to be cast in a mainstream TV role and one of the first
This week’s production news includes the announcement that Bonnie Langford is to join the cast of West End musical 9 to 5,
