Return to the VAULTS: London festival is back in 2023
London's VAULT Festival was founded in 2012 by Andy George and Mat Burtcher in the tunnels under Waterloo Station. The lockdown due to the COVID pandemic came during the 2020 festival and resulted in ...
16 Des 202235min
Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022 winners
Since 2005, Manchester-based property company Bruntwood has worked with the Royal Exchange Theatre to present the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. The 2022 ceremony was held at the Royal Exchange on 1...
15 Nov 202228min
Not Too Tame opening for Shakespeare North's Midsummer
The new Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot, Merseyside is an Elizabethan-style theatre which opened in July 2022. However, its first production of a play by Shakespeare came later with A Midsummer...
17 Okt 202242min
MIF announces Factory opening for October 2023
On 29 September 2022, Manchester International Festival officially announced its plans for the opening of its new permanent performance venue, to be called Factory International, in the St John's area...
6 Okt 202252min
Jekyll and Hyde divided between Derby and Hornchurch
Derby Theatre and Queen's Theatre Hornchurch are to stage a co-production of a new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde. Neil Bartlett has brought the story up to date and introduced...
20 Sep 202222min
Adrian Scarborough adapts Alan Bennett for Nottingham
Nottingham Playhouse is presenting a new play, The Clothes They Stood Up In, which is described as a "bittersweet exploration of marriage, dreams and lives unlived". Adrian Scarborough appears in the ...
13 Sep 202222min
Gitika on Road back to Oldham
Oldham Coliseum Theatre is opening its 2022 autumn season with a revival of Jim Cartwright's acclaimed portrait of life in a Lancashire town in Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s, Road, which premièred a...
7 Sep 202222min
Edfringe 2022: Peter Straker takes us on a musical theatre adventure
Peter Straker's first big break was in the West End première of the musical Hair in 1968, following which he has had a long and impressive career in both musical and non-musical theatre and as a recor...
12 Aug 202223min
