Although The Muppet Show was filmed in the UK at Elstree when it started life in 1976, Jim Henson’s creatures have never quite reached...

This month, Shakespeare Schools Foundation was gifted a Praemium Imperiale grant to boost its work with marginalised groups. Nick Smurthwaite looks at how it...

Another London International Festival of Theatre has come and gone, and with it, some of the most inspiring theatre we’ll see all year. As...

A Monster Calls – Old Vic, London Based on Patrick Ness’ bestselling novel about grief, A Monster Calls is directed by Sally Cookson. She’s previously tackled...

In Daniel Kehlmann’s The Mentor, seen at the Ustinov in Bath and in the West End last year, F Murray Abraham played an elderly...

This week's production news includes casting for Clare Barron's Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play, Dance Nation, at the Almeida, final casting for Marianne Elliott's...

Actors' care home Denville Hall has been warned that certain aspects of its operation are unsafe. The latest investigation by the Care Quality Commission has...

Later this month Joking Apart, Ayckbourn’s 21st play, returns to the Stephen Joseph Theatre – 40 years after its premiere there. In September his...

A competition has been launched to find the next female musical theatre star. The winner will appear in a concert alongside performers including Louise...

A government blueprint for the UK’s future relationship with the EU has emphasised the importance of the “continued mobility of talented individuals” and proposes...

Rebecca Lock and Edward Baker-Duly will lead the cast of Kiss Me, Kate at Sheffield Theatres later this year. The Cole Porter musical will be...

This year’s Worcester Repertory Theatre's outdoor performance at the Commandery is an outrageous satirical spoof, reminiscent in many ways of Tom Stoppard's The Real...