Five new opera productions will be unveiled at the 2024 Buxton International Festival—works by Verdi, Handel, Haydn, Bizet and Ethel Smyth. Artistic director Adrian Kelly said,

This is a very earnest recording with quite a few majestic and soaring melodies – I wouldn’t expect, based on the showtunes in the recording,

Hilary Summers: ‘If you don’t know each other well enough to say if something is a bit rubbish, then what’s the point?’Claire Newman Williams Back

Carnation libation: Julie Anne Stanzak among the 8,000 individually placed blooms in the early Pina Bausch classic, ‘Nelken’ photo: Alexander Gouliaev I am a juggler.

Sean McLoughlin’s debut play I Am Steven Gerrard will run at Hope Street Theatre in Liverpool 24–28 January 2024. This one-man play is performed by

Back to the Future the Musical has further extended its run at London’s Adelphi Theatre until the winter this year. The show, which first opened

Jack and the Beanstalk, Birmingham Hippodrome’s 2023–24 panto, attracted record numbers of people—120,000 during its six-week run. Jon Gilchrist, the Hippodrome’s artistic director and chief

A multi-million-pound refurbishment of Chesterfield’s theatre and museum which will create a “state-of-the-art cultural venue in the heart of the town centre” has officially started.

The Drifters Girl comes to Manchester Opera House next week. Nominated for Best New Musical at the 2022 Olivier Awards, the show is full of Drifters

Sh!t-faced Shakespeare takes seven actors, a Shakespearean script and throws a bucket-load of booze into the mix. Having performed at Leicester Square Theatre and around

The Stage newspaper has announced the winners of its Debut Awards, which aim to “highlight breakthrough actors, writers, directors, designers, composers or lyricists to help cement