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Telephone box tales at the Courtyard

20 July 2021

The Courtyard Hereford has commissioned a series of digital films exploring stories connected with telephone boxes.

Unity attracts big names

20 July 2021

Returning to Liverpool Unity Theatre in the autumn are several acclaimed theatre companies such as Dibby Theatre, Paines Plough and Lung.

Annual hip-hop festival moves to Coventry

20 July 2021

Birmingham Hippodrome and Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 have revealed that the Hippodrome's annual hip-hop festival will open Coventry's CVX Festival.

Shakespeare acts The GOAT!

20 July 2021

Manchester’s Great Northern Warehouse has partnered with The GOAT Mcr to bring a summer of live Shakespeare to the city.

Maureen to be queen in Stafford panto

20 July 2021

Maureen Nolan will play the Wicked Queen, Rebecca Keatley will take the lead role and Keith Jack will be Prince Joseph in Stafford Gatehouse Theatre’s 2021 panto Snow White.

Shout out for women

20 July 2021

Liverpool’s Theatre in the Rough has been awarded funding for a new digital arts festival exploring young women’s responses to the Climate Emergency and is now seeking participants.

Exchange's Leigh residency

20 July 2021

Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre takes up residency in Leigh in August.

Formidable Lizzie hits Manchester

20 July 2021

The Formidable Lizzie Boone comes to Manchester Fringe Festival in September.

£25.5 million refurbishment for Warwick Arts Centre

20 July 2021

Coventry venue Warwick Arts Centre has announced a series of events as part of its reopening season after a £25.5 million, four-year transformation.

Miss Donny hits Preston

20 July 2021

Live performance is back in Preston July 29, when one woman-show The Indecent Musings of Miss Doncaster 2007 comes to The Ferret.

Making Contact with a Manchester walk

20 July 2021

Manchester Contact Theatre invites audiences to explore and experience the city in a new light with an immersive sound walk, A Home for Grief.

Maxine's peak support

20 July 2021

Bolton’s Maxine Peake is supporting plans to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Britain’s biggest rights of way dispute.

Tales of a hero and Beauty and Beast at New Vic

18 July 2021

A new play about the life of an everyday hero and a timeless fairytale taken back to its origins will take centre stage at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme as part of the theatre's autumn and winter season.

Romeo and Juliet: confessions revealed at Buxton Fringe

18 July 2021

The story of Romeo and Juliet but not as told by William Shakespeare is to have its première at Buxton Fringe.

What's on in the Midlands

18 July 2021

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 19 July.

Rose finds her way to Buxton Fringe

18 July 2021

Poet Rose Condo will take audiences at Buxton Fringe on a journey through the “hilarity and heartbreak” of her travels in her solo spoken word show The Geography of Me.

Unlocking Sunderland's doors

18 July 2021

Sunderland Culture has announced three Unlocking the Doors performing arts commissions capturing the hopes and anticipation of audiences as pandemic restrictions are gradually eased.

What's on in the North East

18 July 2021

Theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 19 July 2021.

Album proceeds help Northampton theatre

17 July 2021

Leading actors have contributed spoken performances to a music album Incidental: Music for the Stage, proceeds of which will go to Northampton’s Royal and Derngate.

SIRF 2021 cancelled

17 July 2021

The Stockton International Riverside Festival 2021 has been cancelled.