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10th York Shakespeare festival

15 April 2025

York International Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary with a programme that "champions international voices, inclusive storytelling, and the urgent themes of our time."

Young people take part in 30th National's Connections

15 April 2025

The National Theatre's Connections programme, which commissions new plays every year for young people to perform, is celebrating its 30th anniversary.

International theatre in 15th GIFT to the NE

15 April 2025

The 15th Gateshead International Festival of Theatre will feature creative workshops, exhibitions, immersive installations, new performance and discussions.

Impro fest LiF returns to Liverpool

15 April 2025

Unity Theatre and Liverpool John Moores University are supporting the Liverpool Improvisation Festival 2025.

World première celebrates Stoke’s centenary

15 April 2025

Staffordshire’s New Vic Theatre's world première of The Grand Babylon Hotel is an adaptation of a story by Stoke author Arnold Bennett.

Casting announced for Harold Fry at Chichester

15 April 2025

Jack Wolfe will join Mark Addy and Jenna Russell in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new musical based on Rachel Joyce's novel.

Vesna Fest celebrates Ukrainian Culture in SE London

15 April 2025

Woolwich Works will host a showcase of Ukrainian culture in May.

Ballet Unveiled: Sculpting Strength and Vulnerability

15 April 2025

British-Albanian sculptor Andrian Melka's new exhibition explores "the duality of ballet dancers' strength and fragility".

Gatwa (Marlowe) and Bluemel (Shakespeare) show their teeth

11 April 2025

Ncuti Gatwa will play Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel will be William Shakespeare in Liz Duffy Adams’s Born With Teeth in London.

Brophy and Kearns drink to Two Pints in Coventry

11 April 2025

Anthony Brophy and Sean Kearns will take to the stage of the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry in the UK première of Roddy Doyle’s Two Pints.

G&S festival returns to Buxton Opera House

11 April 2025

The National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company will present three productions at the 31st International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival at Buxton Opera House in August 2025.

15 years of Dance for Parkinson’s

11 April 2025

On World Parkinson’s Day, English National Ballet will celebrate 15 years of its Dance for Parkinson’s programme.

RSC to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday

10 April 2025

Performances, theatre tours and workshops will be included in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s events to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday.

Curve's Stafford joins Exchange part-time

9 April 2025

Chris Stafford, CEO of Leicester's Curve Theatre, will join Manchester's Royal Exchange temporarily as part-time Interim Executive Director and Co-CEO.

Woolwich Works announces Brassworks 2025

9 April 2025

Woolwich Works Brassworks, a one-day festival that will be celebrating all things brass, returns in September 2025.

New shows on the menu in Coventry

7 April 2025

A drama telling the stories of four generations of Northern Irish women and a new play featuring live cooking on stage are in Belgrade Theatre's autumn and winter 2025 season.

Climate crisis musical to have Edinburgh première

4 April 2025

Birmingham Hippodrome’s new musical theatre department will take Jack Godfrey and Ellie Coote’s Hot Mess to the Edinburgh Fringe.

Lyric Belfast’s Threshold to be made available online

2 April 2025

University of Galway adds the historic literary journal to its digital archive.

Curve to stage Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1 April 2025

Cathy Tyson will play Martha in a new production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which Leicester’s Curve will stage in its studio in autumn 2025.

Now Graham’s play Punch gets West End transfer

1 April 2025

James Graham’s play Punch, which premièred in Nottingham and will go to Broadway in autumn 2025, is to have a ten-week run in London’s West End.