Georgia Snow

Six cultural organisations including Battersea Arts Centre, theatre festival Transform and live art company Fierce have been jointly granted £500,000 to deliver a showcase of performing arts in Edinburgh next year

Theatre and opera workers have joined the latest in a series of performing arts demonstrations outside the Houses of Parliament, calling for targeted support for the sector and more recognition for its contribution to the economy

British East and South East Asian theatre company Yellow Earth has announced it is relaunching as New Earth Theatre, with plans for new virtual and outdoor performances

London’s Turbine Theatre has announced plans to stage its first pantomime, as well as transfer its concert production of Hair to the London Palladium.

London’s Almeida Theatre will reopen this year with a devised production by Rebecca Frecknall and Chris Bush, it has announced, alongside plans for new work in 2021.

Headlong has revealed plans for a new short play, which audiences will experience over the phone, performed by David Morrissey and Leanne Best.

Philip Bernays said the decision not to offer the work to the zero-hours staff already associated with the theatre "was not taken lightly"

Birmingham Hippodrome, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre are among nearly 30 arts organisations in the West Midlands that have signed up to a pledge vowing to make "radical and permanent change" for black creatives and employee

Jerwood Arts, the Wolfson Foundation, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Linbury Trust have come together to launch the Live Work Fund for individuals working the performing arts and music in the UK