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Plastic pop icon for Blackpool

18 January 2022

Elvis may have left the building but his plastic namesake comes to Blackpool Grand February 5.

Saving Britney for Blackpool and Manchester

18 January 2022

Melding pop singer Britney Spears’s turbulent life with the voice of a millennial superfan, Saving Britney is coming to Blackpool and Manchester in March.

Kane and able at Grand

18 January 2022

Comedian, presenter, actor, author, and scriptwriter Russell Kane is making a stop at Lancaster Grand Theatre.

Family shows at Northern Stage

17 January 2022

Shows for children and their families coming to Northern Stage in spring 2022.

Sadler’s Wells celebrates black dance

16 January 2022

Sadler’s Wells will celebrate black dance in 2022 in Well Seasoned, designed by Alistair Spalding and Breakin’ Convention's Jonzi D.

London Mime Festival film programme

16 January 2022

This year, the London International Mime Festival commissioned five short films from international artists, which are now available to view online.

What's on in the North East

16 January 2022

Theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 17 January 2022.

Icon dance and light at Rochester Castle

15 January 2022

Medway-based Icon Theatre's large-scale dance and light production If Not Now will see visuals by NOVAK projected onto Rochester Castle and a company of 175.

Audition open days for National Youth Theatre

15 January 2022

The National Youth Theatre is to hold audition open days—free workshops giving young people audition advice and introducing them to theatre-making—at two Midlands venues.

Cast revealed for new Private Peaceful tour

15 January 2022

Nottingham Playhouse has announced the cast for Simon Reade’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s World War I novel Private Peaceful.

A Doll’s House postponed

15 January 2022

Elysium Theatre Company has postponed its planned tour of A Doll’s House.

What's on in the Midlands

15 January 2022

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 17 January

January to July at Dance City

14 January 2022

Newcastle’s Dance City has announced its performance programme through to July 2022.

Panto audiences down in Derby

14 January 2022

More than 29,000 tickets were sold for three Christmas 2021 shows at Derby Arena and a temporary indoor venue at Derby Market Place.

New chair for West Midlands’ Culture Central

14 January 2022

Native West Midlander Cassie Chadderton is the new chair of Culture Central, the “collective voice of the cultural sector in the West Midlands”.

Search on for talent for Commonwealth Games ceremonies

14 January 2022

Organisers of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games have begun the search to find volunteers to be cast in the opening and closing ceremonies.

Spring play season to open in Chesterfield

14 January 2022

Tabs Productions and Rumpus Theatre Company are to stage a spring three-play season at Chesterfield’s Pomegranate Theatre.

MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet in cinemas

14 January 2022

This Valentine’s Day, Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet will be broadcast by The Royal Ballet to more than 900 cinemas across the world.

Holocaust remembered in New Vic docu-drama

14 January 2022

A documentary-drama which uses testimonies of Holocaust survivors is to be staged by the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme ahead of the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day.

Coming to Washington in spring 2022

13 January 2022

Arts Centre Washington has announced its programme through to March 2022 and beyond