THE ARTS CENTRE

by Stephi Wild - May 21, 2024

The Barbican has announced the winner of the 2024 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award, Finn Beames & Company. The new work, Quiet Songs, is a piece of music theatre for a single actor, a string quartet and an armoury of swords, and will receive its world premiere in The Pit as part of the arts...

by Stephi Wild - May 13, 2024

Crewe's Lyceum Theatre - part of the international live entertainment business, Trafalgar Entertainment - has announced the appointment of Graham McKnight to the position of Theatre Director....

by Kat Mokrynski - December 08, 2023

As someone who moved to the UK last year, I’m still getting used to the tradition of pantomimes but have fallen in love with their boundless energy and cheesy jokes. Recently, I attended a 10:30 AM performance of Dick Whittington at the Arts Centre Hounslow, where I was one of two adults who was not...

by Stephi Wild - December 05, 2023

English National Opera (ENO) and Greater Manchester have announced a new working partnership to develop a new home for the opera company. The partnership will see ENO and Greater Manchester work together on plans to bring the company’s globally renowned cultural offer to a main base in the city-regi...

by Stephi Wild - November 30, 2023

The cast has been announced for Theatre Re's explosive, joyous and highly acclaimed show The Nature of Forgetting, which sheds a unique light on the experience of those diagnosed with Dementia. The Nature of Forgetting delves sensitively into the fragility of life by exploring what is left when memo...

by A.A. Cristi - August 17, 2023

Haverhill Arts Centre today announces the star cast for its in-house production of Dick Whittington, playing from 15 – 24 December. Haverhill's first homegrown pantomime for many years, Dick Whittington is written and directed by Dan Schumann, Haverhill Arts Centre's Creative Director, with set desi...

by Stephi Wild - August 08, 2023

ADHD The Musical: Can I Have Your Attention Please? is the brainchild of Dora Colquhoun, a neurodivergent theatre maker and performer based in Liverpool. With the help of Dolly Parton, Julie Andrews and Cher, the piece attempts to unpack the feelings of shame and failure commonly felt by those with ...

by Stephi Wild - August 07, 2023

This autumn, Richard Chappell Dance present two programmes of work across the UK. Featuring a tour of Infinite Ways Home to Swansea, Ormskirk and Milton Keynes alongside Home Revisited, an evening celebrating the vibrant dance talent in South West England. ...

by Stephi Wild - August 02, 2023

Artistic Director David Sefton has announced the 2023-24 programme for the Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury....

by Stephi Wild - June 29, 2023

The full cast and creative team have been announced for Driftwood; an intoxicating and mystical new play by award-winning writer Tim Foley in a distinctive physical and cinematic production. ...