The Ashington Group, a real-life art collective made up of hardened Northumbrian coalminers, achieved a great deal in its relatively short existence. The organisation’s rise...

TIN Arts, a dance organisation based in Durham, has announced a partnership with Yorkshire Dance in Leeds to launch a project to support learning-disabled...

Peter Bazalgette has argued that the UK is "failing to harness” the creative talents it should be developing by being too focused on London...

Fresh from drama school and holding the stage entirely on his own, Luke Grant makes a very impressive professional debut in this harrowing drama....

Despite its subtitle, there is no opera and very little actual football contained in We're Not Really Here, a quietly radical collaboration between Contact...

Hackney Empire is clearly strengthening its opera programming. For this flying visit by a European company that is an offshoot of the Armel Opera...

Christopher Harper and John Middleton are to lead the cast of a new production of Strangers on a Train. Harper, currently appearing in Coronation Street,...

Playwrights including Kwame Kwei-Armah and Tanika Gupta have claimed that British theatre is "monocultural" and has a "problematic" approach to internationalism. They were speaking at the launch...

The Little Mermaid completes Northern Ballet’s hat-trick year of premieres in sparkling style. Choreographed by company director David Nixon, it’s a thoroughly absorbing, superbly...

Cressida Pollock, the English National Opera chief executive appointed to turn around the finances of the troubled company, is to step down next year. Pollock,...

Patti LuPone will star in a West End revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company. Marianne Elliott will direct the musical, which will be put on at...

Angus Jackson’s production, the fourth in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Roman season, opens with a drawn-out sequence in which a forklift truck moves bags...