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Equity has withdrawn from part of its pay deal for designers with Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre and is encouraging creatives to push for its unilateral "interim" rates 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/equity-w…

The Mayor of London @SadiqKhan has been handed historic new licensing powers, giving him the final say on applications for large venues, festivals and later opening hours 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/sadiq-kh…

★★★ Review: A Brew to a Kill – Guildford Shakespeare Company’s latest murder mystery is a playfully camp and raucous affair, lovingly poured at a brewery 👇 thestage.co.uk/reviews/a-bre…

Dance adaptations of The Breakfast Club and Wuthering Heights are to run at @Sadlers_Wells as part of the London venue’s 2027 season 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/producti…

★★★★ Review: Madam – Royal Ballet pays warm tribute to its founder with an eclectic raid on the company’s repertoire (@TheRoyalBallet) 👇 thestage.co.uk/reviews/royal…

Orange Tree Theatre’s artistic director and joint chief executive Tom Littler (@littler_tom) is to join the Arts Theatre Cambridge as artistic director and chief executive from June next year 👉 thestage.co.uk/news/appointm…

★★ Review: Speculations – Janie Dee struggles to enliven a clumsy new conspiracy-theory drama from Torben Betts 👇 thestage.co.uk/reviews/specu…

Busted band member @mattjwillis is set to reprise his role as Emcee in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club this winter, starring alongside @Sarah_Hyland as Sally Bowles for a six-week run thestage.co.uk/news/producti…

Sonia Friedman has received the Freedom of the City of London for her “passion for theatre, commitment to new work and support for creative talent” 👉 thestage.co.uk/news/sonia-fr…

National Youth Theatre artistic director Paul Roseby has claimed that creatives and producers are not as highly valued by society as sportspeople, attributing the difference to a "twisted cultural snobbery" 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/snobbery…

Gracie McGonigal has described being ‘embraced’ on Into the Woods as a disabled actor, suggesting the show has ‘opened doors’ in terms of representation in classic shows 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/gracie-m…

Stratford East's artistic director Lisa Spirling has suggested ‘commercial’ should not be a ‘dirty word’ in terms of programming for theatres 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/stratfor…

Many former staff at the UK’s first dedicated improv theatre, which closed suddenly last month, have been left “unable to pay for basic necessities such as housing, heating and food”, according to a group of volunteers hoping to help them 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/theatre-…

★★ Review: Zamboni – Frosty three-hander about PTSD and friendship 👇 thestage.co.uk/reviews/zambo…

★★ Review: Burlesque – Capable tour of troubled musical is packed with standout numbers, but flawed by its undramatic book 👇 thestage.co.uk/reviews/burle…

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Actor and writer Hammed Animashaun has said that it is “really important” that @munyachawawa “started the conversation” about widespread racism and harassment that performers have experienced across the UK 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/hammed-a…

Playwright James Graham has urged Labour to ‘accelerate its pace’ and fulfil its manifesto promise to embed the arts into the school curriculum 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/james-gr…

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is offering early-career writers rent-free access to a London flat she owns as part of a bid to help playwrights afford to work in London 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/phoebe-w…

Drag artists have been ‘hounded and persecuted and physically threatened’ by members of the far right, president Lynda Rooke has warned 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/drag-art…