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Richard Chappell Dance
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Richard Chappell Dance at Dance City, Newcastle
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Something Different

Tinderbox Theatre Company at The Mac, Belfast
Sir Henry Neville
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The Never-Ending Shakespeare Authorship Debate

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? Not according to hordes of academics.
Kieran Hamilton-Amos, Corey Campbell and Alexia McIntosh
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“Darkly comic family drama” comes to life at the Belgrade

Alexia McIntosh and Kieran Hamilton-Amos will join Belgrade Theatre creative director Corey Campbell in Big Aunty, directed and devised by Campbell.
Charlotte Kennedy as Eliza Doolittle
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My Fair Lady

Lincoln Center Theater, James L Nederlander, Jamie Wilson, Hunter Arnold, Crossroads Live, Playful Productions and English National Opera at Palace Theatre, Manchester
Hana Blažiková (Poppea) and Kangmin Justin Kim (Nero)
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea

Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Sam Pay as Big Goat, Rhys Rusbatch as Mr Bo, Canoumah Diguet as Baby Goat, Tiajna Amayo as Little Bo-Frilly and Samuel Tracy as Middle Goat
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Unicorn Theatre at Unicorn Theatre (Weston Theatre)
King Charles and Paddington Bear
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Spitting Image musical to get West End transfer

Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Saves the World, which premièred at Birmingham Rep in 2023, is to transfer to the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End.
RSC debut: Geraldine James
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Geraldine James joins RSC for As You Like It

Geraldine James will make her Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Rosalind in Omar Elerian’s production of As You Like It.
New Vic artistic director Theresa Heskins and Upswing artistic director Vicki Dela Amedume MBE
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New Vic and Upswing to fuse theatre with circus

Staffordshire’s New Vic Theatre and circus company Upswing are to begin an annual programme of work fusing theatre with contemporary circus.
“Imposing and impressive”: Anne Hegerty
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Anne to govern in Chesterfield panto

Anne Hegerty, The Governess from the ITV quiz programme The Chase, will play the Empress in Aladdin at Chesterfield’s Winding Wheel Theatre.
"Wonderful news": Maggie O’Farrell
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West End transfer for RSC’s Hamnet

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Lolita Chakrabarti’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell's Hamnet is to transfer to London's Garrick Theatre.

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Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle Garrick Theatre, London
Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish Farnham Maltings, Farnham
To the Moon and Back The Lowry, Salford
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Robin Hood and the Major Oak Derby Theatre, Derby –
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester –
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The Rocky Horror Show The Alexandra, Birmingham –
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Irish Annie's Blackpool Grand Theatre, Blackpool
Strictly Ballroom the Musical The Alhambra Theatre, Bradford –
Titanic The Musical Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne –
The Spark Òran Mór, Glasgow –
Pride & Prejudice* (*Sort Of) Theatre Royal, Nottingham –
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You Bury Me Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond –
Cinderella Royal Opera House, London –
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Sir Henry Neville

The Never-Ending Shakespeare Authorship Debate

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? Not according to hordes of academics.
Ken Loach

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Ken Loach was in conversation with the North of Tyne Mayor, Jamie Driscoll, at Newcastle's Live Theatre.
Oldham Coliseum

Good News for Once … But Also Bad

Sadly, good news in the Budget this week was soon tempered by much worse from the north-west.
Theatre Audience

The Best Seat in the House

Are premium seats always the best or even worth the money? Not necessarily.
Benedict Cumberbatch in Frankenstein

Will AI Change the Theatre Forever?

Is AI theatre's greatest threat or its greatest friend?
Gecko: Kin

Gecko's Kin comes to Northern Stage

Physical theatre company Gecko comes to Newcastle with its newest production Kin, inspired by the journey from Yemen to Palestine that Artistic Director Amit Lahav’s grandmother made with her family in 1932.
Great riot at the Astor Place opera house, New York on Thursday evening May 10th, 1849

Badly Behaved Audiences Hit the Headlines

As if the cultural sector didn't have enough problems, theatre is now getting negative publicity thanks to problematic audiences.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Censorship Rears its Ugly Head

Philip Fisher reports on worrying developments in the United States.
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