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The recent announcement of an overhaul to arts funding in England poses an existential threat to new playwriting commissions and could lead to risk-averse programming, The Writers Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has warned. 

The Mother of all pantomimes is back in Hackney this festive season, starring Clive Rowe as Mother Goose.

A play about the legendary football match between the British and German troops on Christmas Day 1914, co-inciding with Rememberance Day, should feel both moving and timely. Unfortunately, it is just frustrating.

Head of Bectu Philippa Childs has released a statement commenting on the National Portfolio Organisation funding announcement from Arts Council England.

London-based theatre company, KDC Theatre, is staging a newly adapted version of William Shakepeare’s historical play Henry IV at Barons Court Theatre, West Kensington, from Tuesday 15 - Saturday 19 November.

Tickets from just £35 for & Juliet, our Show of the week: Romeo who?! The most famous love story of all time. Remixed. Now playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

Sir Nicolas Serota has defended the decisions made after the Arts Council England announced its 2022 funding decisions on Friday (4 November).

Arts Council England has revealed its funding decisions, where 990 organisations would be in receipt of a share of £446 million for each of the next three years.

Hannah Essex, co-CEO of SOLT and UK Theatre, has issued an official statement in response to the Arts Council England funding announcements today (4 November).

Tickets from just £32 for Handel's Messiah, featuring internationally acclaimed soloists Danielle De Niese, Nicky Spence, Idunnu Münch and Cody Quattlebaum.

Following a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run, Angela Barnes will be touring her show Hot Mess in 2023.

To celebrate 30 years of the Victoria & Albert's National Video Archive of Performance, the museum is holding a weekend of free screenings from 26-27 November.

Simon has been Director of the BBC Philharmonic since 2014 and has substantial experience working in management and leadership roles across the UK’s orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was elected chair of the board of directors for four years, and also the CBSO, where he served as Director of Orchestral Management.

Following the sell-out hit, The Humans, Stephen Karam returns to Hampstead Theatre with the European premiere of his award-winning comedy, Sons of the Prophet, from 2 December to 14 January.

Following a successful and critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival, Susie McCabe is taking her show Femme Fatality on tour.

Tickets from just £15 for John Gabriel Borkman.

Like Wilde, Denzel Westley-Sanderson, winner of the RTST Sir Peter Hall Award for young directors, pushes boundaries and brings fresh ideas to the social comedy: an all-black cast, a drag queen as Lady Bracknell and a lesbian twist.

Icarus Theatre Collective has pulled its upcoming production of Romeo & Juliet. The production received an online backlash after a casting breakdown went out last week stating the production would be set in 1930s Germany, where Romeo was a member of the Hitler Youth, and Juliet was a young girl from the Jewish community.

A spectacular line-up of some of the world’s best professional dancers will be hitting the road next year for the 2023 official Strictly Come Dancing: The Professionals UK Tour.

London, get ready to party! Save up to 35% on La Clique: tickets from £27.50