A leading London theatre has been given a major boost in their bid to relocate to a new multi-million pound home in Brixton. The Ovalhouse have been granted an initial £130,600 by Arts Co…
In its 25th anniversary year, Stan's Cafe Theatre Company will host Trailblazers, an art project commissioned by Birmingham City Council to help teenagers gain some insight into local pol…
Go and read a review of a show containing puppets by designer Nick Barnes and it's likely that you will find a comment such as "this production will be remembered for its puppets" or "the st…
Shona McCarthy has been announced as the new chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society (EFFS). The EFFS underpins the running of the world famous arts festival. McCarthy comes…
When theatre and performance first came into their own right in Ancient Greece, their purpose was to provide catharsis to the audience " an emotional release identifying yourself with the tr…
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you're looking for permanent, …
Greeted with the soft noises of whistling wind and a bare stage with nothing on it besides a leaning, simple gallow, the air of tension and foreboding sets the tone of this grim play wonderf…
Two people, an unshaved male, dirty and unkempt, along with a young woman in a similarly dishevelled manner, embrace one other on a grimy and stained matress. I initially surmised the pair t…
The concept for Dottir, performed by Riot Act, is a great one. The daughters from Shakespeare's plays are given the chance to have a say, to voice what they are unable to within the plays th…
Let the Savoy Theatre whisk you away from your January blues to old Broadway where the 'sinners' come out at night. After a successful run at the Chichester Festival, Guys and Dolls returns …
A Bristol theatre has been forced to shut its doors due to a lack of front of house facilities. The Brewery Theatre held its last performance on January 4, after being forced to tempor…
Eight women's voices fill the haunting space, absorbing the silence in a stirring, expressive song and hurling the death of the father/husband onto the audience, as we watch the time and ten…
It's a year on since Madeline died, so her children Jade (Maria Askew) and Noah (Simon Maeder) and their dad Terry (Frode GjerlØw) hold a memorial showing a family favourite, Jurassic Par…
School of Rock, the stage musical, shouldn't work as well as it does. The creative forces behind the show are all so disparate that it seems more like someone was playing the Broadway versio…
Give Me Your Love | Ridiculusmus | Battersea Arts Centre 12 – 30 January 2016 Informed by the latest scientific research into the use of MDMA to treat Post Traumatic Stress, …
The Time Zone Theatre Young Actor Programme, supported by MMBF Trust, launches in February 2016 at So & So Arts Club. Time Zone Theatre has announced their partnership with MMBF Trust, …
"The hardest part about it was the research". A day before Christmas Eve I had the opportunity of catching up with Phil Davies, writer of Firebird, a play that explores child sex rings. H…
Settling down to watch The Two Faces of Agent Lacey, I was helpfully reminded by overhearing the gentlemen behind me as the lights went down that it was “not a secret agent, but a cast…
Shakepeare’s Globe has announced its first season under the leadership of new artistic director Emma Rice. The former Kneehigh AD will helm A Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of t…
The King and I is everything a classic musical should be. In director Bartlett Sher's beautiful production, now playing at Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theater at the Lincoln Center, the famil…
One of the only programmes of this type in the country, the StoneCrabs Young Directors' Training Programme aims to help train and develop the potential of a group of theatre makers in the be…
For this year's Christmas show, the Eastern Angles have teamed up with Shanty Theatre from the south west for a caper inspired by a fishing dispute of 1896 " it sounds unlikely, I grant you,…
Told in a tone of light-hearted jest, through physical theatre and skilful puppetry, Bears in Space is exactly what it says on the tin: a play about bears in space. This comic production is …
Kim Noble – You’re Not Alone | Soho Theatre Presented by Soho Theatre, David Johnson and John Mackay in association with In Between Time Until Sat 9 Jan, 7.15pm 'Tis the sea…
Which were your top shows of 2015? We asked the members of our team for their favourites. You can meet us all here if you want to. If not, carry on reading to see what theatre, dance and per…