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Plans have been submitted for a 1,500-seat theatre and 1,000-capacity performing arts venue in the Olympia London exhibition centre. The new venues
Legislation that could have enabled self-employed parents in theatre and the creative industries to share parental leave has failed to progress past
Brace yourself. Martin McDonagh returns to playwriting for the first time since Hangmen, his phenomenally successful, darkly hilarious 2015 hit. He's not
Daisy Heath has been appointed executive director of Kiln Theatre in London. Heath joins from the Young Vic, where she has held
The misogyny in Verdi’s Rigoletto is given an added edge in Matthew Richardson’s timely revival of his 2011 production for Scottish Opera.
Evan Placey's 2015 play for the National Youth Theatre, revived here by the NYT Rep Company as part of their 2018 West
David Garrick helped define modern theatre. Nick Smurthwaite reviews Norman S Poser's new study of the theatrical star, who brought naturalism to
Opera North is to receive nearly £500,000 towards its multimillion-pound expansion plans, as part of Arts Council England’s small capital grants programme.
London’s Orange Tree Theatre has announced that executive director Sarah Nicholson is to step down from her role. Nicholson, who joined the
Billy Elliot actor Layton Williams will play the title role in West End musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. Williams will take over
In our October episode, critics Tim Bano and Lyn Gardner discuss Marianne Elliott’s new gender-swapped production of Company by Stephen Sondheim with
Here it is: the top 10. Broadway critic and resident musical theatre expert Mark Shenton selects his favourite songs in the history
Two years ago, trans activist and performance artist Travis Alabanza had a burger thrown at them along with a transphobic slur. No
Lauren Gunderson is one of the most produced playwrights in America today. I and You is one of her most popular plays.
First seen in 2008, David Alden's hard-hitting staging of Donizetti's tragedy of forced marriage and its shocking aftermath returns for a second
Just as Company's Bobby is now being performed as Bobbie in the West End, the revising of gender roles " and other
The Big Audition is ITV's latest talent show, and sees performers audition for all sorts of jobs in the hope of landing
Comedy and writing legend Elaine May, now 85, returns to Broadway for the first time in well over half a century to
Howard Goodall’s musical The Hired Man is being revived at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch next year, it has been announced. The musical,
Casting has been announced for Kiln Theatre, Tamasha and Live Theatre’s production of Approaching Empty. Ishy Din’s play, which is set in
Arts organisations in Birmingham could face significant cuts for the third time in four years, despite a commitment from the council to
Pointe shoes for black, Asian and minority ethnic ballet dancers are being made in the UK for the first time, in what
Planning permission is being sought to build a Viking-themed immersive theatre in a car park in York city centre. The project would
Caro Newling is to step down as the chair of new writing theatre company Paines Plough after nine years. The theatre producer
First seen in 2007 and revived in 2010, this play written by Bolton Wanderers fans about the club's near mythical FA Cup
