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Trafalgar opens Sydney theatre with Morissette musical

19 April 2021

Woking-based Trafalgar Entertainment, co-founded by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire, has announced that the musical Jagged Little Pill will reopen Theatre Royal Sydney in September 2021.

Hushabye Mountain online

18 April 2021

Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre will work with Stream Theatre on a new online production of Hushabye Mountain by Jonathan Harvey.

Life of Riley goes online

18 April 2021

Deep Blue, from Liverpool-based Paperwork Theatre—online May 8–15—finds Riley caught between two worlds.

Hope play prize springs eternal

18 April 2021

The Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize has re-opened for submissions.

The Dukes springs into new season

18 April 2021

The Dukes in Lancaster returns to live performance with a spring and summer season.

Waterside gets back in the swim

18 April 2021

Waterside, in Trafford, has announced its reopening from May 17 with a summer and autumn programme.

Elysium's online 'afterlife' prized

18 April 2021

Manchester theatre company Elysium has won an Olwen Wymark award after taking work online in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Drive INSIDE for 30 city shows

18 April 2021

Beyond Theatre will present 30 live shows to the DriveINSIDE Theatre in Manchester in May.

Preston to stage a live arts festival

18 April 2021

Preston City Council is to use money from the Cultural Recovery Fund for a brand new Preston Live Arts Festival from June 21–30.

Lloyd Webber concert is highlight of Curve season

18 April 2021

A concert inspired by the life and career of Andrew Lloyd Webber and two nights of work curated by resident creatives are highlights of a socially distanced season at Leicester’s Curve.

Coming to the Royal

17 April 2021

Newcastle’s Theatre Royal has announced is post-lockdown re-opening season.

Homecoming for North East dance company

17 April 2021

North East dance company Eliot Smith Dance has announced its return to live performances with Homecoming, a series of four new works.

Challenging men’s mental health stigma

16 April 2021

Macho, a new dance film from North East based Hit the Ground Running Dance Theatre Company, confronts the stigma still attached to male mental health problems.

Odedra's solo Rising

16 April 2021

Aakash Odedra's solo show Rising, with choreography by Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Odedra, will open at Curve Leicester before touring.

Sexy Lamp has switch-on in digital première

16 April 2021

Katie Arnstein’s Sexy Lamp which “shines a light on sexism in the acting industry” is to have its digital première at Wolverhampton’s Arena Theatre and will also be available on demand.

Spring and summer pantos

16 April 2021

Streamed and live pantomime listings for May–August 2021. Updated: 16 April 2021.

Curve’s Sunset Boulevard to benefit bursary in Nairn’s name

15 April 2021

Leicester’s Curve theatre is making its streamed production of Sunset Boulevard – at Home available to view online again and all money raised will benefit the Andy Nairn Bursaries in Technical Theatre.

ROH free Sleeping Beauty insight

15 April 2021

The Royal Opera House will present a free stream of a special Insight from 2016 celebrating The Sleeping Beauty.

Protein promenades En Route

15 April 2021

Luca Silvestrini's Protein's newest dance work, En Route, will be an outdoor promenade piece around their home borough of Woolwich.

Opera North new activities for young musicians

15 April 2021

Opera North’s £18m redevelopment project, the Howard Opera Centre, will offer over 300 places for young musicians and Opera North Youth Orchestra launched.