News

Hereford theatre calls off Beanstalk panto

5 October 2020

For the first time in 22 years, Hereford theatre The Courtyard will not be staging its panto because of an increase in the number of reported cases of coronavirus.

Switch ON Opera North for autumn

5 October 2020

New events have been added to Switch ON; Opera North’s programme of new indoor performance, outdoor events and digital projects to take place this autumn.

United campaigning for live events industry

5 October 2020

Event industry campaigns find strength in numbers and speak with one voice.

The Soldier Returns—but not as expected

5 October 2020

In spite of the pandemic, Opera Sunderland’s The Soldier Returns will première in November but not as originally planned.

BYMT New Music Theatre Award 2021

4 October 2020

Young writers and composers are invited to submit applications for the British Youth Music Theatre New Music Theatre Award.

Applications open for The Luke Westlake Scholarship

4 October 2020

Working class actors joining the industry in 2021 can apply for support from the renamed JAM scholarship.

Live performance returns to Scotland

4 October 2020

Dumfries and Galloway Council's funding sees live performance return to the region next year, National Theatre of Scotland augment their online programme with live streams, but horror from Edinburgh is delivered safely online.

Dance Umbrella goes digital

4 October 2020

2020 marks the 42nd year of Dance Umbrella and Emma Gladstone’s 7th and final year as Artistic Director and Chief Executive.

Stay more than 5m metres apart!

4 October 2020

Audiences can stay more than five million metres apart—from the performer—for a show coming to Manchester Fringe.

Marching for the arts in Liverpool

3 October 2020

There's a protest march in Liverpool city centre this Saturday to raise awareness of the impact lockdown has had on the arts across the region.

Two RSC productions to go online

2 October 2020

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to perform Juliet Gilkes Romero's The Whip online for Black History Month while the cast of Tom Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer are to reunite for an online reading.

10 Minutes to… goes live today

2 October 2020

Live Theatre’s 10 Minutes to…Call Home has started streaming today.

Tyneside company gets Masonic support

2 October 2020

A group of Masonic bikers is supporting the work of a North Tyneside theatre company.

Performers praise 2020 Buxton Fringe

1 October 2020

Buxton Festival Fringe has confirmed that it will go ahead in 2021 in parallel with Buxton International Festival.

Birmingham Opera to stage Wagner’s RhineGold

1 October 2020

Birmingham Opera Company is to present Wagner’s RhineGold with an international cast and local volunteer performers in a disused metalworks.

HOME stages Identity parade

1 October 2020

Resident artists at Manchester's HOME arts venue, Young Identity, are to create the first live performance there since March.

Jessica Raine to appear in Nottingham Playhouse Bubble

1 October 2020

Jessica Raine and Pearl Mackie will appear in Nottinghamshire-born playwright James Graham’s Bubble in Nottingham Playhouse’s Unlocked Festival.

Actors needed for West Midlands supernatural drama

1 October 2020

Producers of a six-part supernatural drama set among working-class communities are looking for a cast to begin shooting in Coventry and Birmingham in March 2021.

Geordie Panto cancels

1 October 2020

The Geordie Panto at Gateshead Stadium has cancelled its 2020 show.

Two more NE shows cancelled

30 September 2020

NE company Walton-Gunn Productions has cancelled two upcoming productions.