News

Two more NE shows cancelled

30 September 2020

NE company Walton-Gunn Productions has cancelled two upcoming productions.

Elysium launches COVID-19 monologues

30 September 2020

Durham’s Elysium Theatre Company is to upload five new COVID-19 monologues to YouTube, starting on 30 September.

New play gives voice to Mansfield’s young women

30 September 2020

Mansfield Palace Theatre is to support local theatre makers to develop SHEWOLVES, a new play about “young women’s voices in an increasingly complex world”.

Dancing Times magazine celebrates 110 years

30 September 2020

Dancing Times, the world’s oldest dance magazine, celebrates 110 years this October.

Scary, fun show is first for seven months at Coventry’s Belgrade

29 September 2020

Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre is to stage its first live show since March 2020, imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse’s outdoor production of Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show.

Doddy Day spreads happiness

28 September 2020

Several organisations are to create a celebration of Liverpool’s famous comedy son.

A virtual return to theatre

28 September 2020

Oldham Coliseum Theatre stages 360° live-action and animated virtual reality show.

Fringe keeps it in the family

28 September 2020

Greater Manchester Fringe plans to return this autumn—with some shows keeping it in their families, social bubbles, households or online.

Plastic grants for two venues

28 September 2020

Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester and The Lyric Theatre, Belfast have been helped to reopen through an initiative by plastic sheeting supplier Plastic Sheets Shop.

Factory workers of the future

28 September 2020

Manchester International Festival has created a skills and training programme set to benefit up to 10,000 unemployed young people.

Noir makes online première

28 September 2020

Manchester’s Vertigo Theatre Productions is premièring its hit play Noir online.

Bombed Out Assassin Bug

28 September 2020

A COVID-safe half term Halloween panto comes to Liverpool’s Bombed Out Church.

Start of the end of the pier panto

28 September 2020

Blackpool’s North Pier is to present the first-ever Christmas Panto in its 157-year history.

Liverpool festival could become annual event

28 September 2020

Liverpool Theatre Festival attracted almost 3,000 live performance fans across nine days for its inaugural staging—with calls for it to become an annual event.

Podcast dissects play scripts

28 September 2020

Script in Hand podcast returns this autumn to dissect scripts, talk play texts and explore characters from a mix of well-known playwrights paired with lesser-known gems.

Birmingham REP commissions 10-minute pop-up plays

28 September 2020

Birmingham REP has announced 12 new commissions, The Park Bench Plays: a series of short works from “some of UK theatre’s biggest writing talents and comedians alongside emerging playwrights”.

Cartwright's Two at Guildford Fringe

27 September 2020

Guildford Fringe Theatre Company will perform Jim Cartwright's Two at the Back Room of the Star Inn, Quarry Street, Guildford.

Akram Khan Co turns 20 with The Silent Burn

26 September 2020

Akram Khan Company will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a live-streamed programme of work, The Silent Burn Project.

Rural Dance goes digital

26 September 2020

This autumn, the Rural Touring Dance Initiative will present a series of online events.

Sleeping Beauty to go ahead in Birmingham

26 September 2020

Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre has announced that its 2020 panto Sleeping Beauty will go ahead with a reduced number of seats due to COVID-19 safety precautions.