DanceWest Fest, formerly Ignition Dance Festival, returns this spring to the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith (19 & 20 May) and Rose Theatre, Kingston (17 June) with an evening of new

Tour dates have been announced for Frantic Assembly’s new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, a collaboration between poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay and Frantic Assembly’s

John Dillon’s Wearing Colours is to be performed in Liverpool for the first time in 15 years. Set before and in the immediate aftermath of the Heysel

In a move that echoes the eviction of VAULT Festival from his usual home in London’s Waterloo, North Tyneside Council is evicting The Exchange Theatre charity in

This Monday—World Theatre Day—Unfolding Theatre announces the cast and creative team for its brand new show, A Street Like This. Set and made in Sunderland, it’s written

Ahead of a meeting between English National Opera chorus members and a cross-party group of MPs and Lords on 28 March, actors’ union Equity claims that 67.9%

Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre Studio stages Cosmic, a new comedy by Joe McNally about what happens when you look a bit too hard at everyday life

Mikron Theatre, one of the country’s most versatile touring theatre companies (if not its only floating one!) will be launching its 51st season with the

Sheffield Theatres announce new Crucible and Playhouse shows. They include Roger Mcgough’s adaptation of Molière’s The Hypochondriac; a new production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas; while the flexible

Flabbergast Theatre brings The Tragedy of Macbeth to the Southwark Playhouse March 14–April 8. Flabbergast’s Macbeth fuses a respectful approach to text and storytelling to

Opera North has announce seven productions for autumn and winter, including the company’s first full sustainable season of three operas designed to minimise environmental impact.

Equity general secretary Paul Fleming travelled to Manchester for crunch talks with the Arts Council over the future of jobs at Oldham Coliseum At a