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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.

The immune system translated to dance

4 March 2025

Royal Academy of Dance and The Francis Crick Institute and Centre of the Cell are to screen the new film Speeding to Protection.

Stan’s Café bottles it with new show about plastic

3 March 2025

Birmingham theatre company Stan's Cafe will turn its attention to the complex issue of plastic usage for The Many Lives Of PET #1.

Step Around Town brings dance into London schools

3 March 2025

This spring, a series of performances will take place in schools across Greater London.

Manford and Nickless return to Manchester panto

28 February 2025

Jason Manford and Ben Nickless will return to the Manchester Opera House pantomime for a fourth season, this time in Robin Hood.

MIF25 calls for creators and volunteers

28 February 2025

Factory International is asking for Manchester-based creatives plus 400 festival volunteers for this year's Manchester International Festival.

Culture central to Manchester's economic growth

28 February 2025

A new report credits Manchester’s 'cultural offering' as a key driver for economic growth, as well as "the ongoing happiness and wellbeing of the city’s residents".

Cathie comes out on top in search for new play

28 February 2025

Malvern Theatres and The Everyman, Cheltenham have selected the winning entry for their inaugural playwriting competition: In Veritas by Cathie Rolinson.