Married aspiring standups confront on stage what they’re concealing in real life, in Piers Black’s compelling two-hander

The Broadway star is currently appearing in Beaches

Acting legend praises work of former pit village’s theatre company

It will be staged in-the-round at the Duke of York’s

Eclipse review at Chichester Festival Theatre: touching, truthful writing and a gorgeous set elevate this familiar story of family bereavement

Lesley Cowland is at the Abbey Theatre Studio for Company of Ten’s take on the Bard’s romantic comedy…

A clever blend of deep thinking on the meaning of life mixed with plenty of silliness makes this a great transfer from across the Pond.

Neil Dowden on the South Bank ★★★★☆ 18 May 2026 Bertolt Brecht is usurping Shakespeare in the two places most

William Hanson is starring as Ruth in Titanique at the Criterion Theatre in London

Explore ‘Kenmure Street’, a powerful verbatim play by Simon Jay, highlighting community solidarity against unjust immigration policing.

Score a big bargain on a range of great shows in the West End and beyond.

Sheffield Theatres in association with Blackpool Grand Theatre have announced casting for their upcoming co-production of Summer Holiday The Musical directed by Sheffield Theatres Artistic Director, Elizabeth Newman and Ben Occhipinti (The Brenda Line, Gypsy, The Secret Garden).

Smash-hit cabaret show Liberace & Liza: A Tribute is heading to the West End next month, playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

Exquisite set design shines in drama-comedy sandwich saga

Read our review of An Ideal Husband at Gate Theatre, Dublin: Marc Atkinson Borrull’s modern revisioning of Wilde’s serpentine political thriller is dazzling

A major new chapter for theatre in County Durham has begun as Sir Ian McKellen officially opened The Playhouse in Horden, the permanent

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Pleasure Dome Theatre announced casting for THE SIGNALMAN, with Gerald Dickens, great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, leading the cast in a South West tour visiting Heritage Railways and the Landmark Theatre.

Casting has been announced for the West End transfer of The Old Vic’s acclaimed and Olivier Award nominated production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, which plays at the Duke of York’s Theatre – newly renovated into the round – from 20 June – 12 September.

The Egg at Theatre Royal Bath announced a disability-led reimagining of THE SECRET GARDEN, adapted by Tom Wentworth and directed by Stephanie Kempson.

Rising stars of the BBC’s Small Axe are set to feature in a spoken word play set in South London,

The producers of the West End revival of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia have announced full casting.

Olivier Award-winning musical comedy Titanique has extended its West End run at the Criterion Theatre, and announced a new cast.

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A first love is rekindled on stage and off in Sarah Ruhl’s metatheatrical romance and farcical send-up of hammy old musicals

Read our review of Elysium Theatre Company’s Long Day’s Journey into Night: Solid and sensitively handled revival of the Eugene O’Neill classic

Joe Marler will take his podcast to theatres across the UK in a new nationwide tour this autumn.

Sonia Friedman Productions has announced full casting for the West End transfer of the Olivier Award-nominated production of Arcadia,

Rubicon Theatre Company has released all new photos from Eleanor, a historical drama that is now playing in the Karyn Jackson Theater in Ventura, California. Check out the photos here.

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In the small, intimate space of the Tabard Theatre, Gilbert and Sullivan’s words are deftly and playfully brought to life by a brilliantly talented eight-person cast under the direction of Keith Strachan and Annemarie Lewis Thomas.

A joyous, exuberant extravaganza of a show.

Between a sci-fi concert for eggs and an interview with a bee, the scarecrow broadcasters in Philippe Quesne’s oddball performance piece make the case for art as salvation and for farms as the lifeblood of humanity

Pickering Musical Society is putting the finishing touches to its summer concert Let’s Do It! at the Kirk Theatre.

Sarah Ruhl’s theatrical comedy about two actors exes reigniting the spark entertains but lacks chemistry

Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre has announced a programme of entertainment for December

Mother Courage and Her Children at the Globe Theatre Review: “In a way, it is strikingly Shakespearean” the

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John Morton’s debut as a playwright is a finely crafted family drama with shades of Alan Ayckbourn

Aside from a brief pre-shoot ‘discussion’, this take on Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 film has little to offer – despite some fine performances

James M Cain’s hard-bitten novella gained bleak power on screen but this version, giving Mischa Barton her UK stage debut, loses its flinty edge

Read our review of Avenue Q review at Shaftesbury Theatre, London: cheeky puppets still amuse in this sparkling revival

Director Clint Dyer brings a fresh political focus to Ken Kesey’s story of disempowerment but the relentless misogyny of the text feels retrograde

Meat Cute will arrive this summer

Callie Khouri, who penned the original 1991 film, has written the adaptation with music by Neko Case

Things that go bump…

The Constant Wife is a 100-year-old RSC comedy that remains relevant, tackling todays themes with sharp wit and a brilliant cast.

By Joy McKay.  Birmingham Royal Ballet have returned to Mayflower Theatre with Director Carlos Acosta’s revival of the Marius Petipa classic ballet Don Quixote. A, famously, technically challenging ballet to perform and, at almost three hours long, usually considered one for the aficionados, how does Acosta’s version compare to previous interpretations? Don Quixote is a […]

Maria Friedman is set to star in Kimberly Akimbo at Hampstead Theatre in London

A thoughtful and ambitious look at intimacy, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves about love