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Deaf Arts Festival NI returns for third outing

21 March 2025

Cre8 Theatre Company-led festival for d/Deaf and hearing audiences is to be hosted by Belfast’s The Mac.

Northern Ireland première for rooftop theatre show

20 March 2025

Patrick J O’Reilly’s Dressed for Space announced for Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.

Casting for Chichester's Government Inspector and Anna Karenina

19 March 2025

The full casts have been announced for the first two Festival Theatre productions of Chichester's new season: The Government Inspector and Anna Karenina.

New shows announced at Birmingham Rep

14 March 2025

New shows in the programme include the musical Starter for Ten featuring Mel Giedroyc, a world première by a deaf professional theatre company and a new Christmas production.

RSC selects full cast for Titus Andronicus in Stratford

14 March 2025

The Royal Shakespeare Company production of the Bard’s bloodiest tragedy, Titus Andronicus, will play in the Swan Theatre, Stratford.

Sadler’s Wells offers three £6,000 micro-commissions

14 March 2025

A new call-out offers three micro-commissions for dance artists to create films inspired by Sadler’s Wells East’s performance space The Dance Floor.

Tinderbox reveals details of “cutting edge” Incubate Festival

12 March 2025

Seven theatre-makers to preview new works-in-progress at Belfast’s The Mac.

Writers asked for plays that “pop up” in everyday locations

11 March 2025

East Midlands theatre company Fifth Word is asking writers to produce short plays that can “pop up” outside traditional theatre spaces.

Nancy Harris’s Our New Girl to be revived by Belfast’s Lyric Theatre

11 March 2025

Rhiann Jeffrey to direct family drama-cum-psychological thriller, Our New Girl.

Garrick’s Farm Boy to go on national tour

10 March 2025

Lichfield Garrick has announced the schedule for its national tour of Michael Morpurgo’s Farm Boy, the sequel to War Horse.

James Graham play to punch its weight on Broadway

10 March 2025

James Graham’s play Punch which had its première at Nottingham Playhouse in 2024 will go to Broadway in autumn 2025.

Musical to have UK première at Curve

10 March 2025

Leicester theatre Curve is to stage Indigo, an “uplifting and heart-warming” new musical, in its studio theatre in summer 2025.

Exchange chief leaves after report finds "leadership failures" over show cancellation

7 March 2025

Royal Exchange Theatre's Chief Executive Stephen Freeman has resigned after a report into the cancellation of A Midsummer Night's Dream found "systemic organisational and leadership failures".

Freema and Nick team up for RSC’s Much Ado

7 March 2025

Freema Agyeman and Nick Blood will play Beatrice and Benedick in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Much Ado About Nothing.

Derby’s Cinderella up for two panto awards

7 March 2025

Derby LIVE and Little Wolf Entertainment’s 2024 panto Cinderella has been nominated in two categories at the UK Pantomime Association’s annual awards.

Illegal rave play dances into Malvern

6 March 2025

Six actors are needed for the première of a play which has taken 20 years to write: Rachel Tobin’s The Last Free Rave.

Garrick casts in-house show The Pocket Dream

6 March 2025

Lichfield Garrick has unveiled the cast of its in-house production of Elly Brewer and Sandi Toksvig’s The Pocket Dream.

It’s a Matter of Life and Death at the New Vic

5 March 2025

A rare stage adaptation of a 1946 British fantasy-romance film, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death, is to be produced in north Staffordshire.

Tinderbox becomes Belfast Mac Associate

4 March 2025

Tinderbox teams with The Mac as it moves to being a “creative hub for artists”.

Liberty 2025 disability arts festival

4 March 2025

CRIPtic Arts is to produce Liberty Festival 2025 as part of Wandsworth London Borough of Culture.