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Industry bodies including Equity and the Musicians’ Union have joined forces to oppose proposed laws that will make it illegal for buskers to perform across most of London’s West End

A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to subsidise 1,000 free memberships to the Creative Industries Federation

Alec Newman and Shane Zaza have been announced to star in Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter, which will reopen London’s Hampstead Theatre next month.

Wilton’s Music Hall, Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Corn Exchange in Newbury are among the recipients of grants totalling £81,000 from a new fund set up by the Theatres Trust to help venues reopen following the Covid-19 pandemic

Layton Williams, Alice Fearn and Zizi Strallen are among the West End cast members announced for a series of charity concerts that will reopen the Palace Theatre. 

Qdos Entertainment has announced that socially distanced pantomime productions will go ahead at Newcastle Theatre Royal and Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre.

Following its multimillion-pound refurbishment, the West End venue will reopen in the spring, with a revamped auditorium and front-of-house spaces and a larger stage

Olivier winners including directors Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell have called for theatre to rebuild more inclusively when the industry emerges from the pandemic