Steve Orme

Lucy Briers has been added to the cast of William Ivory’s play The Market Deeping Model Railway Club which première at Nottingham Playhouse.

Kate Arnstein has been chosen to pen Cinderella, Nottingham Playhouse’s 2026 Christmas show for younger children.

TheatreCraft is bringing together leading UK theatre organisations to highlight the vital role of STEM skills in theatre and inspire the next generation of technical talent.

Leicester’s Curve theatre is to stage a new adaptation of Kes Gray’s Daisy and the Trouble With Christmas as one of its festive offerings.

A contemporary take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet—a co-production between four companies—is to go on tour in 2027.

Five venues have joined forces to set up a national alliance calling for greater recognition of independent regional theatre.

Stage and screen actress Samantha Womack and “cruise and cabaret queen” Mary Mac have joined the cast of the Nottingham Theatre Royal 2026 panto Jack and the Beanstalk.

Natalie Casey will play Juliet alongside Russell Kane as Romeo in the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Not Too Tame reimagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

A “comedy and drag extravaganza” about blonde bombshell Lily Savage is to have its world première at Leicester’s Curve in 2027.

Young people and early-career performers are to take to the stage at Birmingham Rep as part of its Rep Rising 26 festival.