From 16-22 October, some of the world’s top improvisers will descend on the city for the annual Slapdash International Improv Festival – the longest-running festival of improvised theatre and comedy in the UK! Slapdash is a week-long celebration, hosting seven days of workshops, three nights of shows, and an array...

Now in its 14th year, Homotopia, Liverpool’s celebrated LGBT+ arts and culture festival returns this autumn.. Through visual art, performance, film, theatre, talks, readings, cabaret, dance and debate, Homotopia presents #Liberation50, relating to how the past half century has shaped and affected LGBTQI art and culture. As the 50th anniversary...

From dark comedy to lip-sync, Shakespearean cabaret to rap, Maiden Speech is a new and exciting feminist theatre festival featuring a varied selection of original works exploring feminism today. Bringing together ten exciting emerging artists, Maiden Speech promises to be a festival that entertains and provokes, engaging with questions of...

The International Emmy Award-winning, all-male dance company BalletBoyz are set to return to London’s Sadler’s Wells this autumn for the world premiere of their new show Fourteen Days before embarking on tour across the UK. The new work from the recent Rose d’Or winners has been created by four internationally...

This November, the UK premiere of Angela Betzien’s award-winning The Dark Room (Best New Australian Work, Sydney Theatre Awards) will be staged at Theatre503. This intricately layered psychological thriller takes a sober look at one of the devastating issues of contemporary Australian discourse - the abuse of defenceless children. Deep...

New production images have been released of Ria Jones and Danny Mac in the UK Tour of Sunset Boulevard, producers have also announced additional dates to the tour. Last year, Ria Jones played the role of ‘Norma Desmond’ at the London Coliseum when Glenn Close was indisposed, receiving rave reviews...

Artistic Director Ellen McDougall today announces performers for the Gate Theatre’s groundbreaking collaboration with English National Opera opening in May next year. Concluding her inaugural season, Effigies of Wickedness is a cabaret show featuring a huge range of shockingly prophetic, satirical songs exactly 80 years after they were banned by...

In his five-star review of Strangers in Between at The King’s Head Theatre in January of this year, Theatre Weekly’s Greg Stewart said “Strangers In Between is an arresting piece of theatre that could easily make the transfer to the West End”.  Less than a year later and that transfer...

Following a successful festival last year, Brighton Horrorfest is returning to Sweet Venues for 2017, with even more frights for the nights leading up to Halloween. Theatrical hits from Brighton and Edinburgh Fringes will be performed, including Father of Lies (based on a true story about a mysterious unsolved murder...

The Lyric Hammersmith and Digital Theatre+ today announce an innovative new partnership which will see the creative process of theatre-making brought vividly to life on film and widen access to the secrets of creativity - as leading practitioners reveal their craft through conversation, discussion, workshops and unique behind-the-scenes footage of...