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Northampton play explores young people’s online world

1 April 2025

Royal and Derngate's première of Samson Hawkins’s Top G’s Like Me will “follow a group of rudderless young adults in a post-playground world of seething toxic masculinity”.

Festive Hippodrome says there’s no such thing as wolves

1 April 2025

Birmingham Hippodrome has announced that No Such Thing as Wolves by Horrible Histories writers Gerard Foster and Richie Webb will be one of its 2025 festive productions.

Afro-Cuban dance festival Alafia 2025

1 April 2025

Acosta Dance Centre in South East London will host the UK's biggest Afro-Cuban dance festival this summer.

Regent's Park choreographer development programme

1 April 2025

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has announced details of its new programme for early-career musical theatre choreographers, Theatre Dance Lab.

Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2025

1 April 2025

Norfolk & Norwich Festival returns with a huge variety of work staged in and around the city of Norwich for 17 days.

Christmas season announced by Newtownabbey’s Theatre at the Mill

30 March 2025

Two new shows revealed for Theatre at the Mill’s 2025 Christmas season.

Belgrade celebrates giving the community a voice

27 March 2025

More than 140,000 audience members attended 425 performances of 113 events at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre in 2024.

New plays in Northampton National Theatre festival

27 March 2025

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate will welcome hundreds of young people to perform in the National Theatre Connections Festival 2025.

Graham’s Punch highlighted at Commons event

27 March 2025

James Graham’s play Punch premièred at Nottingham Playhouse and will transfer to Broadway in autumn 2025.

Belfast City Council donates to Equity’s Safe Home campaign

26 March 2025

Equity Northern Ireland safeguarding campaign benefits from £10,000 support.

New Vic takes The Little Mermaid to the circus

26 March 2025

Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic is to present a new show as part of its circus-theatre programme of work, an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid.

Cai gets bursary to join Derby Theatre

26 March 2025

Cai Kenedy is to become Derby Theatre’s first engagement communications producer thanks to a bursary from theatre director Michael Grandage.

Nine operas on the bill at Buxton International Festival

26 March 2025

More than 160 events will be staged during the 2025 Buxton International Festival which will feature nine operas including four chamber opera commissions.

Gladiator helps Chesterfield panto reach new heights

26 March 2025

Jack and the Beanstalk, Chesterfield Theatres’ 2025 panto, will reach rarely seen heights—it will feature Giant from the BBC series Gladiators.

Dance all day in Strictly Wandsworth

26 March 2025

Wandsworth London Borough of Culture will kick off in Battersea Park with an all-day free dance extravaganza, Strictly Wandsworth, hosted by Strictly professional Oti Mabuse.

Kenwright memorial at his "favourite theatre in the world"

22 March 2025

Liverpool Empire Theatre has unveiled a sculpture of theatre impresario and ex-Everton FC Chairman Bill Kenwright created by Tom Murphy.

53two launches grant in memory of "a dear friend of The Arches"

22 March 2025

Simon Naylor, Creative Director of 53two, is establishing the PMA Grant in memory of actor Phil Michael Aizlewood.

The Grand searches for trustees

22 March 2025

Blackpool Grand Theatre is seeking new trustees for its Trust and Arts & Entertainments Boards to help govern these charities.

Liverpool's Epstein Theatre to reopen

22 March 2025

The Grade II listed theatre closed in June 2023 following a decision by the city council to withdraw financial support.

GM Fringe hit Neurochatter wins an Offie

22 March 2025

Neurochatter, which was staged at the Greater Manchester Fringe, has won an award in the 'Offest' category of the 2025 OffWestEnd Awards.