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Robyn Grant is a writer and performer. She is also the Artistic Director of Fat Rascal Theatre, a company whose aim is to create feminist musical theatre. She's embarking on a new journey with Beauty & the Beast, her reimagined and gender-swapped musical inspired from the classic tale.

Lucy Kerbel and Tonic Theatre presented the fifth Tonic Celebrates event on 24 November at The Other Palace. The guests of the night were Rosalie Craig, Phyllida Lloyd, and Danielle Tarento, who opened their hearts and discussed their career paths in an empowering and emboldening evening.

Directed by Jermyn Street Theatre's own artistic director Tom Littler, Miss Julie is revived in an effortlessly visceral new production.

Eighteen-year-old Callum is taking his first steps out of care, dreaming of becoming a track star. He is immediately flung into a world of poverty and toxic company, and when his legs start to fail him, he loses the only control he has on his life.

When Becca (Holly Donovan) is sent to a hospice in order to serve a community punishment, she meets Anna (Clare Corbett), a cancer patient at terminal stage. An unlikely friendship starts between the two women, who at first glance have nothing in common but being confined in the same space. As they share stories, their bond grows.

Stewart Pringle is the Associate Dramaturg of the Bush Theatre. His play Trestle is the most recent winner of the Papatango Playwriting Prize, and is at Southwark Playhouse until 25 November.

59 years after it first premiered, Roger Gellert's Quaint Honour is revived as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act. In 50s Great Britain, homosexuality is still illegal, but this doesn't deter the boys at boarding school. Following a dare, Tully (Harley Viveash) sets off to seduce one of the younger pupils, Hamilton (Jack Archer). Little did he know his actions would kick off something bigger than headmaster Hallows' (Simon Butteriss) rage.

It's New Year's Eve 1999 and Jennifer (Elizabeth Chadwick) and Christopher (Simon Burr) are ready to host the party of the millennium. But as their guests begin to arrive, everything starts falling apart.

Daniel (James Lance) and Oliver (Joshua Silver) are the picture of a happy gay marriage. Now, they're about to have their first baby with their closest friend Priya (Chetna Pandya) acting as a surrogate. Chris Thompson's Of Kith and Kin, which premiered at Crucible Sheffield last month, is a powerful and touching play that questions family values, parenthood, masculinity, and the subtle effects of abuse.

Twenty years after its first premiere, Terry Johnson's Insignificance is being given new life by director David Mercatali. He discusses his career and how the world has changed since the play was first on.

Director Maggie Norris is embarking on a new journey with Phoenix Rising. She explains why she started The Big House and how vital it is to give support to youngsters leaving care.

Madeline (Peyvand Sadeghian) wants the only thing her partner Toni (Harriet Green) can't give her: a baby. When Maddie offers a solution involving someone from their past, Toni starts to be concerned about her role in Maddie's life. Frankie Meredith's debut play is an inspiring piece that questions the notion of family, the privilege of being able to start one, love and, ultimately, identity.

On a geography trip to the Scottish Highlands around 1998, middle-schooler Ramona (Ruby Bentall) falls for Jim (Joe Bannister), a socially awkward simpleton with a passion-bordering-obsession for crustaceans. Their shared love for Enya's music combined with the teenage isolation that comes with weird interests inevitably leads them to bond.

On Sunday, 17th September, 8 Northumberland Avenue saw theatre veterans and newcomers gathering together to celebrate the latter's accomplishments. The first edition of The Stage Debut Awards was a success, and the red carpet turn-up was a grand and sparkling line of stars and stars-in-the-making. Dressed to the nines in suits, gowns, and make-up worthy of Hollywood's glitziest of nights and shrouded in the humbleness and grace that only belong to the theatre folk (well, most of them, anyway), actors, writers, composers, and directors walked with full hearts and starry eyes.

Catherine Steadman's career spans stage and screen: from Mansfield Park to Downton Abbey, and from Oppenheimer (which earned her an Oliver Award nomination) to That Face at the Royal Court. She's now embarking on a new production of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution at London County Hall.

We use them every day. Sometimes we mean them, other times we don't. We whisper, sing, or scream them. Words permeate our lives from the very start, and theatre director Peter Brook accompanies us on an intimate journey through language and meaning in his new book Tip of the Tongue.

When Sister Aloysius (Stella Gonet), St. Nicholas Church School's conservative and distrusting principal, learns from Sister James (Clare Latham) that Father Flynn (Jonathan Chambers) had a one-on-one meeting with Donald Muller - the first and only African-American pupil of the school - she is immediately alarmed, believing sexual misconduct must have occurred.

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot returns to the Arts Theatre, 62 years after making its English-language debut at the same venue. This production focuses on the play's essence, with director Peter Reid stripping off all frills.

Cherrelle Skeete, who originated the character of Rose Granger Weasley in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is now starring in the Lyric Hammersmith's production of The Seagull, which begins on 3 October.

Mick and Sylv's (Patrick Driver and Charlie Hardwick) home is a safe haven for some of the teenagers living in a small town in Northumberland. Dummey (Ryan Nolan), Laura (Aimee Kelly), and Shelley (Sarah Balfour) are all there for different reasons, united in the love the two adults give them. However, the dark shadow of a past looms over the house, as Dean (Joe Blakemore) - an older guest of Mick and Sylv's - becomes a threat.