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Almost nine in 10 West End tickets put up for resale on Viagogo for Halloween evening shows were offered by single vendor using "bogus" seat numbers, according to an investigation by anti-touting campaigners 👉 thestage.co.uk/news/almost-9…

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★★★ Review: Ekleido: Femina – Unfocused exploration of femininity is a thrill ride 👇 thestage.co.uk/reviews/eklei…

Actors and stage managers facing unexpected costs such as cancelled work or a sudden rise in household bills can now apply for a new grant from Actors’ Trust 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/emergenc…

Controversial plans to convert Edinburgh venue Summerhall into a hotel and student accommodation have been delayed, with the developer behind them claiming its ambitions have ‘evolved’ 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/summerha…

The Royal Ballet and Opera has urged employees across multiple departments to cover front-of-house shifts, it has emerged, admitting to being ‘short-staffed’ following a slew of job cuts 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/royal-ba…

Ex-EastEnders actor James Alexandrou has said his new venue Playhouse East will fight to preserve the practice of creating theatre through improvisation 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/ex-easte…

Writers Martin Sherman and Matthew McFrederick have been named the joint winners of the 2026 Theatre Book Prize, marking the first time that two individuals have shared the award 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/martin-s…

Waleed Akhtar (@Waleedakhtar) has won the Hermitage Major Theater Award and will receive a $35,000 commission to create an original work 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/waleed-a…

The National Theatre’s director Indhu Rubasingham and executive director Kate Varah have been named women of the year by Harper’s Bazaar 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/national…

Equity has withdrawn from part of its pay deal for designers with Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre and is encouraging creatives to push for its unilateral "interim" rates 👇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…