Five finalists have been shortlisted for the first WiT Award, a prize created to discover and nurture new writers working in the theatre industry. The winner will be announced at a reception on 25 May. The winning writer will receive an £8,000 commission; and additionally a development relationship with Out...

The team behind Park Theatre hits Dead Sheep, An Audience with Jimmy Savile, Deny Deny Deny and The Roundabout, will return to the theatre with the world premiere of a brand new comedy, Twitstorm, playing from 31 May – 1 July. Guy Manton is a national treasure, the much-loved host...

The European Premiere of the off-Broadway musical hit Pete ‘n’ Keely comes to Tristan Bates Theatre – a string of hits, a cast of two, ‘Forever Plaid’ meets ‘I Do, I Do’. Katie Kerr and David Bardsley lead this award-winning musical, and we caught up with them to get a...

When a new musical opens with a song entitled 'Better to be Dead', you know it's probably not going to be a tap dancing/happy tunes kind of show. Whisper House, written by Kyle Jarrow, Duncan Sheik and conceived by Keith Powell, is a gothic rock chamber musical that doesn't fail...

Set in his home city in the month of Ramadan, Combustion is the first full-length play by Bradford-born Asif Khan, a new comic drama set in a local garage in the lead-up to a march by far-right nationalists. Following its run at Tara theatre, Combustion will transfer directly to Arcola...