Recipients of this year's Queen's Birthday Honours from the performing arts world include actors Maureen Lipman, David Suchet, Adrian Lester and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, writer and actor Arinz…
The BoxLess Theatre production of Simon Reade's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful will be the first new production to be staged indoors in London's West End since the Governm…
This Christmas Julian Clary will lead a star-studded cast in Pantoland at The Palladium, a treasure-trove of the London Palladium panto past devised by Michael Harrison and playing from 12 D…
Now in its fourth year, Jack Thorne's A Christmas Carol will return to The Old Vic as an Old Vic: In Camera production (12-24 December 2020).
Additional performances have gone on sale for David Hare's Beat the Devil and Inua Ellams' and Fuel's production of An Evening with an Immigrant, the one-person plays at London's Bridge Thea…
Double Olivier nominees (and former CBBC TV presenters) Dan and Jeff return for a 10th anniversary festive season of Potted Panto, running for a festive season at London's Garrick Theatre fr…
The Royal Shakespeare Company will focus its programming in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon over the coming year, with the Swan Theatre and The Other Place remaining closed…
The Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre have launched a new scheme called See It Safely, to support venues as they navigate the challenges of reopening, and to give audiences the confid…
Having had emergency surgery (not Covid related), Giles Terera will no longer be appearing in the National Theatre production of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams' new one-person play Death of Eng…
Actress and writer Georgina Barley refused to feel defeated by the cancellation of her debut play Lovesick six months ago due to the Covid crisis. Instead Georgina put her mind to creating a…
Wendy Kweh and Jonathan Slinger join Erin Doherty and Alfred Enoch in Tinuke Craig's production of Sarah Kane's Crave at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
'Speak " Listen " Reset " Heal', an online anti-racism conference for the UK's theatre and dance sectors is taking place in November 2020, presented by Inc Arts UK in partnership with Societ…
The Industry Minds Awards 2020 will be held on 30 November 2020 at The Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, hosted by Industry Minds and Hope Mill Theatre patron Denise Welch, a leading advocate…
The Royal Shakespeare Company has today announced that Juliet Gilkes Romero's provocative new play The Whip will receive its online premiere this October as part of Black History Month.
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap " the longest-running show in the world, which had been due to resume performances at London's St Martin's Theatre on 23 October 2020 " is to have its reopeni…
The cast of The New Tomorrow, a weekend of pop-up performances celebrating the Young Vic's 50th birthday, has been announced. Taking place on 3 and 4 October 2020 " the first pie…
The winners of this year's Oliver Awards 2020 with Mastercard will be announced on 25 October 2020 in a special programme hosted by Jason Manford and broadcast on ITV and Magic Radio.
Birmingham Repertory Theatre has announced 12 new commissions titled The Park Bench Plays " a series of micro-plays that 'illuminate, interrogate and even celebrate today's socially distance…
Newcomer Sam Tutty scooped two awards for his star-making performance in the hit West End musical Dear Evan Hansen at The Stage Debut Awards 2020. The awards were presented as a virtua…
The BBTAs have revealed the 2020 Black British Theatre Awards nominee list, voted almost entirely by the public and representing some of the finest work by Black performers and creatives in …
It will be Patrick McPherson's critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival Fringe show The Man that will open performances at London's Lion & Union Theatre from 30 September to 2 October 202…
It's been announced that Olivier Award-winning show The Play That Goes Wrong from Mischief Theatre will return to London's Duchess Theatre, its home for the last six years, from 19 November …
Nicole Botha's new play Call Me By My Name, being broadcast live from London's Apple Cart Arts on 21 and 22 October 2020, was written during lockdown and is a direct response to the recent w…
There will be a live, socially distanced season of drama, music, comedy and cabaret at Chichester Festival Theatre during autumn 2020, running from late October to early January. Pr…
Casting has been announced for the first two plays in the Theatre Royal Bath's WELCOME BACK Season this autumn, running from 14 October to 12 December 2020. Two of the country's leading actr…