Shortlists for the third annual Also Recognised Awards have been announced by MyTheatreMates, founded by Mark Shenton and Terri Paddock. These audience-voted industry accolades celebrate talent in fields often overlooked by other award bodies. The Also Recognised Awards were launched online in 2015 and include...

What happened in the woods? Door Ajar Theatre’s inaugural production, Thisbe, picks up the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream characters Demetrius and Helena, fourteen years later through their daughter, the titular character.  The production, directed, by Roberta Zuric, premiered at The Vault Festival in...

Oliver Coopersmith, Netflix’s I-Boy and the lead in forthcoming Sky Atlantic series Tin Star opposite Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks, and Jay Taylor, Donkey Punch, Nell Gwynn and Wolf Hall/Bring up the Bodies, will star in the West End debut of 46 Beacon, playing the...

A new season of live performance including award-winning Edinburgh fringe successes, new musicals, home-grown talent, music and dance are touring village halls and community spaces across the UK this spring. Hosted by the touring schemes and member organisations of the National Rural Touring Forum (NRTF),...

The story of the Calendar Girls is well known by now, it's been a hit movie, a fairly successful play and now, original writer, Tim Firth has teamed up with childhood friend Gary Barlow to bring us the musical version - The Girls. It has...