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Stage and screen legend Bonnie Langford will play ‘Barbara Castle’ in the 10th Anniversary Concert of Made in Dagenham at the London Palladium on Saturday 16 March 2024. She joins the previously announced Pixie Lott and Killian Donnelly in this highly anticipated one-off show, directed by Shaun Kerrison. Further casting will be announced at a later date.

Following its hugely successful inaugural year in 2023, comedian and winner of Chortle’s Legend of Lockdown award Mark Watson has teamed up with worldwide streaming platform NextUp for the second year running to curate Access Festival, running until 28 January 2024.

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has announced its 2024 summer season, opening with Twelfth Night (or What You Will) (3 May – 8 June 2024). Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identities is directed by Owen Horsley set against the heat of the Mediterranean sun.

Sarah Snook has said that there is nothing like the magic of live theatre and has opened up about challenging body-shaming in the entertainment industry. The actor is about to open in previews of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, where she will play every part.

It's no wonder that the Orange Tree Theatre is such a fan of Zoe Cooper. She received critical acclaim with both the beautifully touching Jess And Joe Forever in 2016 and the wonderfully perceptive Out Of Water in 2019 at the venue. There are many similaries here, with Cooper's deft handling of sexuality, friendship and social expectations, but this time taken from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. Is it another hit? Not quite.

Cold Comfort Productions presents Spider, a new play written and directed by Jude Benning. Spider will be performed at Riverside Studios as part of Bitesize Festival in February 2024.  

For the final video in their series of songs from the rehearsal room, watch the cast of the Live Aid musical Just For One Day sing The Who’s iconic hit 'My Generation' for the first time.

Singer and actor Nicole Scherzinger will headline the 2024 Henley Festival.

Since Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss' little show about Henry VIII's six wives first debuted in 2018 at the Edinburgh Festival, it has done rather well. It quickly moved to the West End in January 2019, before opening at its current home – the Vaudeville Theatre – in November 2021, bitting 1000 performances in December 2023. Along the way, the show has also won over 35 international awards, including two 2022 Tony Awards.

Afterglow: All tickets just £15! The climax is just the beginning. 

Burnt Orange Theatre have announced it’s much anticipated REP Company Season for 2024, featuring two spellbinding productions: William Shakespeare’s timeless classic The Tempest and the critically acclaimed Constellations.

Broadcast details for The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals have been announced. The show will be available to watch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on 27 January at 19.50, as well as on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds on 28 January. 

The National Theatre has announced new productions for all three South Bank stages this summer: Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff and Mnemonic in the Olivier theatre and The Grapes of Wrath in the Lyttelton theatre, alongside the previously announced The Hot Wing King in the Dorfman theatre. 

Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Billy Crudup (The Morning Show, Coast of Utopia, No Man’s Land, Almost Famous) delivers an acting “masterclass” (New York Theatre Guide) in David Cale’s wickedly funny thriller Harry Clarke, transferring to London’s West End from March direct from sell-out runs in New York and Los Angeles.

Intelligence by Sarah Grochalahas been announced as the winning script for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023. Launched in 2019 and produced by Ellie Keel and Paines Plough, the Prize is the only national prize to champion and support exceptional playwrights who identify as female or non-binary.

The National Theatre has released rehearsal images for the upcoming revival of Dear Octopus by Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle), playing in the Lyttelton theatre from 7 February. See all the photos here.

After an acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe, Jade Anouka is taking her debut play HEART to Brixton House, a brand new theatre in the centre of the community. See the first look photos here.

Show of the Week: Save Up to 52% on Guys & Dolls- The Bridge transforms for one of the greatest musicals of all time. Be transported to the streets of Manhattan in Guys & Dolls directed by Nicholas Hytner. 

Based on very personal experience, S. Asher Gelman’s play off-Broadway hit now comes to London’s Southwark Playhouse. Although polyamory is an initial theme, the play quickly becomes a study of quite a classic love triangle, where a casual physical fling develops into serious emotional involvement.

Actor Hannah Waddingham was told that she would never work in television because a drama teacher told her that her face looked 'like one side of her face has had a stroke.'