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Burnt Orange Theatre have announced it’s much anticipated REP Company Season for 2024, featuring two spellbinding productions: William Shakespeare’s timeless classic The Tempest and the critically acclaimed Constellations.

Broadcast details for The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals have been announced. The show will be available to watch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on 27 January at 19.50, as well as on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds on 28 January. 

The National Theatre has announced new productions for all three South Bank stages this summer: Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff and Mnemonic in the Olivier theatre and The Grapes of Wrath in the Lyttelton theatre, alongside the previously announced The Hot Wing King in the Dorfman theatre. 

Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Billy Crudup (The Morning Show, Coast of Utopia, No Man’s Land, Almost Famous) delivers an acting “masterclass” (New York Theatre Guide) in David Cale’s wickedly funny thriller Harry Clarke, transferring to London’s West End from March direct from sell-out runs in New York and Los Angeles.

Intelligence by Sarah Grochalahas been announced as the winning script for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023. Launched in 2019 and produced by Ellie Keel and Paines Plough, the Prize is the only national prize to champion and support exceptional playwrights who identify as female or non-binary.

The National Theatre has released rehearsal images for the upcoming revival of Dear Octopus by Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle), playing in the Lyttelton theatre from 7 February. See all the photos here.

After an acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe, Jade Anouka is taking her debut play HEART to Brixton House, a brand new theatre in the centre of the community. See the first look photos here.

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Based on very personal experience, S. Asher Gelman’s play off-Broadway hit now comes to London’s Southwark Playhouse. Although polyamory is an initial theme, the play quickly becomes a study of quite a classic love triangle, where a casual physical fling develops into serious emotional involvement.

Actor Hannah Waddingham was told that she would never work in television because a drama teacher told her that her face looked 'like one side of her face has had a stroke.'

West End LIVE has confirmed it will return to Trafalgar Square this summer.

Tickets from £15 for Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Peacock Theatre

The Old Vic has announced the world premiere of Ella Hickson’s Oedipus, starring Academy Award winner Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody, No Time To Die) and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma (Present Laughter, Game of Thrones).

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Actor Jodie Comer has said that she would love the challenge of doing a musical.

The critically acclaimed cast of the smash hit Donmar Warehouse production of the Broadway musical Next to Normal – which sold every seat at every performance across its season at Donmar Warehouse, where the production made its long-awaited UK Premiere –are to return as the show prepares to transfer to London’s West End.

How you arrive at a Cirque show very much determines how you will react to it. Are you a newbie whose eyes will be veritably popped, or are you a veteran, whose eyes occasionally roll, having seen much of it before?

Members of the Musicians' Union and Equity have voted overwhelmingly in favour of potential strike action in a dispute over planned cuts to the workforce.

West End star Oliver Tompsett is to star in a one-off concert at The Other Palace Theatre next month.

Sheffield Theatres has announced the cast for The Crucible. Arthur Miller’s timeless masterpiece, based on the events of the infamous Salem witch trials, is directed by Anthony Lau (Miss Saigon, Anna Karenina) and runs in the Crucible from Saturday 2 – Saturday 30 March.