Thangam Debbonaire could be heading up the UK arts sector under a Labour government by 2025. Her speech at The Future of Theatre conference 2024 gave reasons to be optimistic, but there are still ...

Rural touring company Pentabus is to present its first ever musical in a co-production with New Perspectives inspired by the ...

Talking heads – the best quotes from theatremakers over the past week, including David Eldridge, Melanie La Barrie, Denise ...

Little Angel Theatre’s puppet festival returns for a second year in a row after winning an Offie award for its launch in 2023 ...

Bush Theatre is to stage a new play by Alfred Fagon award winner Faith Omole as part of its 2024 season, with artistic ...

Jodi Myers, former deputy director of touring at the now-devolved Arts Council of Great Britain, has criticised the "demise ...

“Everything sort of happened all at once for me,” reflects playwright Duncan Macmillan on his dizzyingly busy early 2010s, in which three stone-cold classic plays – Lungs (2011), Every Brilliant Thing ...

The social media platform will be the “official virtual stage” of the event, offering “bespoke workshops and masterclasses” to help performers build audiences both online and at the festival ...

Joe Orton’s comedy feels dated, but its satire still bites in this production by London Classic Theatre, starring John Dorney, Alana Jackson, Holly Smith, Alex Cardall, Jack Lord, Jon-Paul Rowden ...

Something Rotten! in Concert will star Jason Manford and is directed by Tim Jackson, whose production Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) had its own UK premiere last week.

Actor and writer David Haig has adapted Philip K Dick's 1956 novella for the theatre, but are the press impressed by director Max Webster's sci-fi staging? Fergus Morgan rounds up the reviews ...

A 92-year-old former theatre building has won planning approval to become a mixed-use home to some 109 hotel rooms, a swimming pool and spa, in addition to a refurbished auditorium ...