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Octagon entertains online

24 November 2020

Bolton Octagon has a programme of online events to entertain audiences this December.

Hippodrome’s aim to raise £20,000 in a week

24 November 2020

Birmingham Hippodrome is to start a fundraising campaign to raise £20,000 in a week to bring confidence and creativity back to young people to combat the effects of COVID-19.

Marion Tait to step down at BRB

24 November 2020

Marion Tait CBE will step down from her role as Assistant Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet at the end of the year.

World’s first "opera in hyper reality"

24 November 2020

Current, Rising is a collaboration between the Royal Opera House’s Audience Labs programme, Figment Productions and Royal Holloway, University of London.

UK dance festive season

23 November 2020

A festive season round-up of UK dance, November to December 2020.

Giant head and Jupiter replica arrive in Buxton

23 November 2020

A giant blue head and a three-foot replica of Jupiter have been sent from Austria to Derbyshire to be stored in a quarry before becoming part of the set for an opera at Buxton International Festival.

BAC adopts Pay What You Decide for 2021

22 November 2020

Battersea Arts Centre is changing its pricing model for 2021.

British Musical theatre writers invited to pitch

22 November 2020

Producers Katy Lipson and Adam Lenson are looking for writers for a commission of up to £6,000 for their new Chamber Musical Project.

American wins Theatre503 writing Award

22 November 2020

An emerging US writer has won the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award with a play set in the world of American football and the Black Lives Matter movement.

New writers programme from Selladoor

22 November 2020

Selladoor Worldwide put some of its DCMS funding towards developing new writers.

Urgent fundraising to save flagship Ignition programme

22 November 2020

The economic impact of COVID-19 threatens Frantic Assembly's Ignition programme which involves hundreds of young people with low artistic engagement.

Belarus Free Theatre wins Courage Under Fire prize

22 November 2020

Theatre company Belarus Free Theatre has received the 2020 Magnitsky Prize for Courage Under Fire.

Protein's Wapping Project Double Bill

21 November 2020

Luca Silvestrini's Protein's The Wapping Project Double Bill, a site-responsive double bill, will be streaming until 29 November.

Birmingham audiences invited to save a seat

20 November 2020

Audiences are being asked to Save A Seat in a fundraising campaign by Birmingham REP and Birmingham Royal Ballet, following a 50% reduction in capacity due to 'social distancing'.

“Mystery” of live fringe theatre returns to Coventry

19 November 2020

London-based fringe company Proforca is to return to the Albany Theatre Studio, Coventry after lockdown with AAAAA (FiveA), a new piece performed for one night only.

From live play to audio recording

18 November 2020

The November Club reimagines its proposed 2020 touring production as a collection of audio stories.

Hansel and Gretel go on tour

18 November 2020

Theatre Space North East is touring a performance in a tent throughout the region this Christmas.

Leicester’s Curve casts rescheduled concerts

18 November 2020

Leicester's Curve theatre has rescheduled two concerts and announced more cast members for those shows in its new season of 'socially distanced' performances.

A new work from balletLORENT

17 November 2020

balletLORENT releases a new short film this week.

Cinderella goes to ball at Odeon cinemas

17 November 2020

Michelle Heaton of Liberty X will play the Fairy Godmother in a new version of Cinderella which will play at selected Odeon cinemas.