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Arts, culture and heritage industries to receive £1.57 billion rescue package

Statement from the UK Government on rescue package for the Arts: Britain’s globally renowned arts, culture and heritage industries will receive a world-leading* £1.57 billion rescue package to help weather the impact of coronavirus, the government announced last night. Thousands of organisations across a range of sectors including the performing arts and theatres, heritage, historic […]

Ramin Karimloo, Rachel Tucker and more to star in Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World

Lambert Jackson Productions in association with The Other Palace, today announces a “virtual lockdown production” of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World. Filmed entirely in isolation, Séimí Campbell directs Rachel John (Hamilton), Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of The Opera), Cedric Neal (Motown) and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away), with musical supervision by Adam Hoskins […]

Broadway Waitress star Nick Cordero has died from Coronavirus

Forty one year old, Tony nominated, Broadway actor Nick Cordero, has died after contracting Coronavirus. The actor (who appeared in the original Broadway cast of Waitress) spent three months in hospital in Los Angeles and had several complications which led to having his leg amputated and a pacemaker fitted. His wife of three years, Amanda Kloots, […]

Talawa Theatre Company explore Black key and frontline workers experiences of Covid-19

Talawa Theatre Company (the most successful Black theatre company in the UK) are creating an online experience featuring six brand new short pieces using verbatim interviews from Black key and frontline workers which explore the historic moment of the Covid-19 crisis and its impact on them. The pandemic has had a starkly divergent impact on […]

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap plans to re-open in the West End this October

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap – the longest running show in the world, which had to be suspended when the Coronavirus Pandemic resulted in the closure of UK theatres – is set to re-open in the West End on Friday 23 October 2020. The brilliant thriller, which has played in London since 1952, is to re-open […]

Alice Fearn to host online interactive experience featuring a line-up of West End stars

A live, online, interactive experience, hosted by Alice Fearn, featuring a line-up of West End stars will run every Friday evening for four weeks from July 17th. First guests announced are Les Misérables’​ ​Shan Ako​ and Dear Evan Hansen’s ​Sam Tutty.​ £1 from each ticket sold will be donated to a different charity organisation every […]

Socially distanced production of SIX THE MUSICAL to tour the UK this Summer

DIVORCED, BEHEADED, DRIVE – IN CONCERT The international smash-hit SIX has announced that it will be the first West End musical to perform again after Lockdown. SIX will join the Utilita Live From The Drive-In summer shows and rock out 8 shows a week at 12 open air sites across the U.K. in London, Birmingham, […]

Hairspray reschedules London Coliseum production until 2021

The producers of Hairspray the Musical have announced today rescheduled performance dates for the multi award-winning smash hit musical at the London Coliseum. The production will now begin performances on Thursday 22 April 2021 and play a strictly limited 19-week season to Sunday 29 August. Until 26 July 2020, all existing ticket holders have priority […]

Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code set to become an epic stage thriller

The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown’s blockbuster novel that captivated the world, is to become an epic stage thriller. It will make its World Premiere on a UK Tour in 2021, opening at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley on Saturday 3 April 2021, and touring throughout the year. The curator of the Louvre has been brutally […]