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★★★ Review: Loop – Ambitious, appealingly surreal fantasy needs a little more bite 👇
Loop review at Theatre503, London: darkly funny psychodrama
Read our review of Loop at Theatre503, London: ambitious, appealingly surreal fantasy needs a little more bite
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November 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
★★★ Review: Loop – Ambitious, appealingly surreal fantasy needs a little more bite 👇
English National Opera chief executive Jenny Mollica has been appointed to lead the Roundhouse in north London, replacing Marcus Davey.
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Roundhouse names ENO's Jenny Mollica as new chief executive
Stay up to date with breaking UK theatre exclusives, casting updates, plus West End and regional UK show announcements from The Stage, the industry's trusted source.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
English National Opera chief executive Jenny Mollica has been appointed to lead the Roundhouse in north London, replacing Marcus Davey.
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★★★★ Review: Royal Ballet: Perspectives: Balanchine, Marston, Peck – Cathy Marston’s striking Britten ballet is the centrepiece of an enjoyable celebration of pure dance 👇
Perspectives: Balanchine, Marston, Peck review at the Royal Opera House: Intriguing
Perspectives review at the Royal Opera House, London: Cathy Marston’s striking Britten ballet is the centrepiece of an enjoyable celebration of pure dance
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November 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
★★★★ Review: Royal Ballet: Perspectives: Balanchine, Marston, Peck – Cathy Marston’s striking Britten ballet is the centrepiece of an enjoyable celebration of pure dance 👇
Panto season starts here!
The Stage’s Panto Issue 2025 is back — your all-access pass to festive theatre magic across the UK.
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The Stage’s Panto Issue 2025 is back — your all-access pass to festive theatre magic across the UK.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Panto season starts here!
The Stage’s Panto Issue 2025 is back — your all-access pass to festive theatre magic across the UK.
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The Stage’s Panto Issue 2025 is back — your all-access pass to festive theatre magic across the UK.
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1536 by Ava Pickett, joint winner of the Best Writer prize at this year’s The Stage Debut Awards, is to transfer to the West End following its run at the Almeida Theatre earlier this year.
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Ava Pickett's 1536 to transfer to West End
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November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
1536 by Ava Pickett, joint winner of the Best Writer prize at this year’s The Stage Debut Awards, is to transfer to the West End following its run at the Almeida Theatre earlier this year.
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Immersive entertainment company Path Entertainment Group has announced an "exciting next step in its global expansion", with the transfer of Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular to Australia.
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Path Entertainment Group expands with Australian run of Come Alive!
Immersive entertainment company Path Entertainment Group has announced an "exciting next step in its global expansion", with the transfer of Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular to Australia.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Immersive entertainment company Path Entertainment Group has announced an "exciting next step in its global expansion", with the transfer of Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular to Australia.
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Dundee Rep is facing a proposed 100% cut to its council funding, in a move that has been labelled “brutal” by actor Brian Cox.
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Dundee Rep facing ‘brutal’ potential 100% council funding cut
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November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Dundee Rep is facing a proposed 100% cut to its council funding, in a move that has been labelled “brutal” by actor Brian Cox.
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‘Being on stage in Joseph when I was pregnant was an electrifying time’
Alexandra Burke, who has transitioned from X-Factor fame to become a regular musical theatre star, talks about her career ahead of this year’s festive outing in Southampton 👇
Alexandra Burke, who has transitioned from X-Factor fame to become a regular musical theatre star, talks about her career ahead of this year’s festive outing in Southampton 👇
Alexandra Burke on pantomimes and the new Chaka Khan musical
X Factor winner Alexandra Burke is now a well-established musical theatre star – and a panto regular, too. She talks about the moments that have made up her career
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November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
‘Being on stage in Joseph when I was pregnant was an electrifying time’
Alexandra Burke, who has transitioned from X-Factor fame to become a regular musical theatre star, talks about her career ahead of this year’s festive outing in Southampton 👇
Alexandra Burke, who has transitioned from X-Factor fame to become a regular musical theatre star, talks about her career ahead of this year’s festive outing in Southampton 👇
Don’t obsess over converting panto audiences into regular theatregoers, writes Lyn Gardner 👇
Lyn Gardner on the obsession with converting panto audiences into regular theatregoers
The fetish for turning a first-time theatregoer into a regular attendee misses the point about the joy of a once-a-year or singular experience, says Lyn Gardner
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November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Don’t obsess over converting panto audiences into regular theatregoers, writes Lyn Gardner 👇
American theatre company StarKid is to have its first ever West End run, with The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
American theatre company StarKid is to have its first ever West End run, with The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals.
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Trafalgar Entertainment has appointed Melanie Dhawan as its chief financial officer.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Trafalgar Entertainment has appointed Melanie Dhawan as its chief financial officer.
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The National Youth Theatre has been awarded a £2.3 million grant to expand its flagship inclusion programme Assemble, with new partners including Lowry and Sheffield Theatres.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The National Youth Theatre has been awarded a £2.3 million grant to expand its flagship inclusion programme Assemble, with new partners including Lowry and Sheffield Theatres.
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Ian McKellen is to join Jeremy Corbyn in the Pleasance pantomime Wicked Witches – A Popular Panto!.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Ian McKellen is to join Jeremy Corbyn in the Pleasance pantomime Wicked Witches – A Popular Panto!.
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The Stage’s panto issue returns for 2025 🎉
Get unlimited access to panto coverage from across the UK — reviews, interviews and festive features galore.
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Get unlimited access to panto coverage from across the UK — reviews, interviews and festive features galore.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Stage’s panto issue returns for 2025 🎉
Get unlimited access to panto coverage from across the UK — reviews, interviews and festive features galore.
Subscribe now 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/subscrib...
Get unlimited access to panto coverage from across the UK — reviews, interviews and festive features galore.
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★★★★ Review: The Hunger Games: On Stage – Conor McPherson and Matthew Dunster’s stage adaptation of the hit YA story is ambitious and spectacular.
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The Hunger Games: On Stage at Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre, London
Read our review of The Hunger Games: On Stage at the Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre, London: Conor McPherson and Matthew Dunster’s stage adaptation of the hit YA story is ambitious and spectacular
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November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
★★★★ Review: The Hunger Games: On Stage – Conor McPherson and Matthew Dunster’s stage adaptation of the hit YA story is ambitious and spectacular.
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ICYMI: The average cheapest ticket in theatres across the UK has risen by 16.6% compared with 2024, The Stage’s UK ticketing survey has revealed.
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Cheapest ticket prices rising at regional theatres, The Stage survey finds
The average cheapest ticket in theatres across the UK has risen by 16.6% compared with 2024, The Stage's UK ticketing survey has revealed
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November 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
ICYMI: The average cheapest ticket in theatres across the UK has risen by 16.6% compared with 2024, The Stage’s UK ticketing survey has revealed.
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ICYMI: Musical comedy Avenue Q is to return to the West End 20 years after it first played there, with a limited run scheduled at the Shaftesbury Theatre next year.
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Avenue Q lands West End revival with original Broadway puppets
Musical comedy Avenue Q is to return to the West End 20 years after it first played there, with a limited run scheduled at Shaftesbury Theatre next year
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November 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
ICYMI: Musical comedy Avenue Q is to return to the West End 20 years after it first played there, with a limited run scheduled at the Shaftesbury Theatre next year.
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ICYMI: The Royal Opera is selling tickets for a production next spring for as much as £425, reportedly the most expensive ticket to have been offered by any subsidised performing arts organisation in Britain 👇
Royal Opera ticket prices reach £425 as dynamic pricing introduced
The Royal Opera is selling tickets for a production next spring for as much as £425, reportedly the most expensive ticket to have been offered by any subsidised performing arts organisation in Britain
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November 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
ICYMI: The Royal Opera is selling tickets for a production next spring for as much as £425, reportedly the most expensive ticket to have been offered by any subsidised performing arts organisation in Britain 👇
ICYMI: Leading venues and art organisations including the National Theatre and Sonia Friedman Productions have backed a renewed sector-wide pledge, which aims to bring about "structural change" and ensure parents and carers working in the industry are properly supported.
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Theatres back sector-wide pledge to bring ‘structural change’ for parents and carers
The National Theatre and Sonia Friedman Productions are among arts organisations backing a renewed pledge to ensure working parents and carers are properly supported in theatre
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November 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
ICYMI: Leading venues and art organisations including the National Theatre and Sonia Friedman Productions have backed a renewed sector-wide pledge, which aims to bring about "structural change" and ensure parents and carers working in the industry are properly supported.
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★★★ Review: S-E-D//Sharon Eyal: Into the Hairy – Striking, muscular work infused with gothic sensuality 👇
S-E-D//Sharon Eyal: Into the Hairy review at Sadler’s Wells: Unrelenting
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November 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
★★★ Review: S-E-D//Sharon Eyal: Into the Hairy – Striking, muscular work infused with gothic sensuality 👇
If India is to build a viable commercial musical theatre industry, it must begin on its own terms, from the ground up, writes Richard Jordan 👇
Richard Jordan on musical theatre's potential in India
A fast-growing urban middle class and the rising appetite for live performance have created fertile ground for musical theatre in India, says Richard Jordan
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November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If India is to build a viable commercial musical theatre industry, it must begin on its own terms, from the ground up, writes Richard Jordan 👇
Actor Ailun Zhou discusses her new play, created with director Robert Price. Sparked by the process of self-taping, the results are ‘absurdly funny and quietly devastating’, she says 👇
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The Last Self Tape explores how art, performance and loneliness collide
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November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Actor Ailun Zhou discusses her new play, created with director Robert Price. Sparked by the process of self-taping, the results are ‘absurdly funny and quietly devastating’, she says 👇
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Playwrights Natasha Gordon and Vinay Patel are among the six writers selected to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of its new development scheme, Cohort.
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RSC unveils six writers selected for resident playwrights ensemble
Natasha Gordon and Vinay Patel are among the six writers selected to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of its new development scheme, Cohort
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November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Playwrights Natasha Gordon and Vinay Patel are among the six writers selected to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of its new development scheme, Cohort.
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★★★ Review: Porn Play – Ambika Mod stars in a provocative drama about transgressive desire and addiction.
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Porn Play review at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London
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November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
★★★ Review: Porn Play – Ambika Mod stars in a provocative drama about transgressive desire and addiction.
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★★★ Review: Miss Saigon – Production of the passé musical is lifted by sublime performances 👇
Miss Saigon review at the Palace Theatre, Manchester
Read our review of Miss Saigon at the Palace Theatre, Manchester: Production of the passé musical is lifted by sublime performances
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November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
★★★ Review: Miss Saigon – Production of the passé musical is lifted by sublime performances 👇