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The most famous teenage lovers in Western literature didn't actually die. At least, not in Lost Dog's outstanding Juliet and Romeo, a
Katherine Vernez Gray trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she received the gold medal in acting. She has
We've just announced our new season: 12 productions in two theatre spaces taking place over nine months. I was reminded what a
"Why are actors' biographical details in theatre programmes so universally rubbish " just a long list of past plays and films?" asked
The Rain God Pronk! is a collective of creatives set up last spring with the aim of combining science and storytelling to
“You already know you’re going to love it!”, declare the ads for Mamma Mia!. Now I’ve noticed that Eugenius!, a new musical
Philip Ridley's new play consists of a sextet of monologues. These have been written to be gender neutral and Georgie Henley and
Edward Fox and his son Freddie are to star as a fictional father and son in An Ideal Husband in the West
This week’s production news includes new stage adaptations of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones. Elsewhere, casting
A new organisation aiming to support women and parents working in opera is being launched. SWAP'ra has been set up by five
For his adaptation of Bizet’s opera Carmen, Phil Willmott has been, in part, inspired by Goya’s painting Los Fusilamientos del Tres de
Planning permission has been granted for a £1.45 million theatre at a school in Shropshire, which will host professional performances as well
Ian Tabbron has been appointed interim chief executive at the Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot, Merseyside. Tabbron becomes the organisation’s first chief
Paula Hunt, artistic director of the Royal Academy of Dance, is stepping down due to ill health. Hunt took over the position
Mark Wilson's two-hander, You, originally premiered at the Brighton Fringe in 2015, and it's lost little of its power since then. It's
Dancer Tierney Heap's repertoire as a soloist with the Royal Ballet includes the lead in Carlos Acosta's Carmen, the Lilac Fairy in
It feels so, so wrong to pass comment on I Have a Mouth and I Will Scream, because if there's one thing
Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr Jeykyll and Mr Hyde caused a minor sensation in its day. Plenty of
After two decades of planning and multiple redesigns, the building of Shakespeare North Playhouse is about to get underway. Key figures in
Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser are to perform in a concert version of The Light Princess at London’s Cadogan Hall later this
Michael Ball and Alexandra Burke are to star of Chess in the West End. The revival of the musical, by Benny Andersson,
Sadiq Khan has committed an extra £1 million of funding to the new London Borough of Culture initiative, aimed specifically at encouraging
Current Equity president Malcolm Sinclair has ruled out running again in the forthcoming elections, bringing an end to his eight-year run in
Ruthie Henshall, Sarah Soetaert and Josefina Gabrielle are to join the cast of Chicago when it returns to the West End next
Nuffield Southampton Theatres opens NST City, its second, state-of-the-art venue in the heart of the city's regenerated cultural quarter, with The Shadow
