The iconic Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be back once again in August, and TikTok is proud to return as the Official Virtual Stage for 2023. For the second year running, we’ll be working with this one-of-a-kind celebration of performing arts, helping to bring its artists and shows to even bigger audiences than ever before through TikTok.

Every day on TikTok, creators are kickstarting trends, shaping culture and finding a new audience that’s helping to drive their success on the platform and on stages in the real world.

From incredible comedy duo the @sugarcoatedsisters to standout performers @rob_madge and @maxfosh TikTok is where stars from the comedy, music and performing arts scenes get started, going on to create sell-out shows and find real-world success.

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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY —The Fisher Center at Bard (Gideon Lester, Artistic Director and Chief Executive; Aaron Mattocks, Chief Operating Officer) today announces that, in partnership with the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard (CHRA), it has received a $2,000,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation  to support the work and livelihood of Tania El Khoury, a commissioned artist and guest co-curator at the Fisher Center, Founding Director of CHRA, and a Distinguished Artist in Residence at Bard’s Theater & Performance Program. El Khoury’s live art engages the audience in close encounters with narratives drawn from the political realities of borders, displacement, and state violence. The grant will support her live art production and touring, her scholarly and artistic research, and her curatorial work at the Fisher Center and CHRA.

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Olivier Award-winning West End production company DLAP Group are delighted to announce their investment in the future development of MTS, the premiere musical theatre college of the north of England. MTS was founded in October 2018 by West End star,and Arts Educational Schools London graduate, Annie Guy and rapidly gained a reputation for the quality of its teaching. By promoting a dynamic, electrifying and fulfilling college experience MTS has ensured that students have gone on to gain places at the UK’s most prestigious performing arts schools, colleges and universities as well as finding their way directly into the industry. In September 2023, MTS opens its second Academy in Durham, with its Newcastle Academy following in 2024.

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The Olivier Awards 2024 with Mastercard will take place on Sunday 14 April, at the Royal Albert Hall. Established in 1976 and run by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT), the Olivier Awards celebrate the world-class status of London theatre and are Britain’s most prestigious stage honours.

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World renowned production company Underbelly are preparing to conquer the Edinburgh Fringe Festival once again this year as they gear up to return to Circus Hub on the Meadows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with 11 incredible shows spanning circus, cabaret, comedy, variety and more. Covering two alluring venues – The Lafayette Big Top and The Beauty Spiegeltent – as well as an outdoor bar, Underbelly’s Circus Hub is unrivalled, there really is no place like it – it is the true home of Circus at the Edinburgh Fringe.

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Jay Gao has today (29 June) won both an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award this year for his thrilling debut poetry collection, Imperium (Carcanet Press). Through reimagined episodes from Homer’s Odyssey, Imperium asks questions about diaspora and how past lives permeate the present. It was described by judge Wayne Holloway Smith as ‘the work of a poet mind shot through with intellect and cultural capital’.

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A new report released today by Freelancers Make Theatre Work (FMTW) highlights key issues facing the freelance theatre workforce. Conducted in March-April 2023, this year’s survey highlights a pay-gap between the male and female workforce of 37.4%, and reports of an industry rife with ageism and sexism are further corroborated by data which reveals that the pay-gap widens to 47.7% for freelancers with 21-30 years’ experience in the industry. Third in a series of surveys by FMTW, the 2023 findings indicated that overall, average earnings for freelancers in the industry are 17.5% below the UK national average salary, and that many are leaving – or being forced out of – the industry resulting in skills shortages across the sector.

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tiata fahodzi, the UK’s leading British African heritage contemporary theatre company, today announces a new season of theatre including a major tour of a new production;welcomes a new wave of six artists and creative associates to the tiata fahodzi family; and commissions a new Triple Bill of explosive short plays showcasing theatre’s most exciting new voices, all slated for autumn 2023/Spring 2024.

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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is delighted to announce the launch of the inaugural Edinburgh Festival Fringe emerging critic’s programme. Reviews are a critical tool for Fringe artists, for both raising their profile and encouraging audiences to seek out their work. Over the last few years, the level of arts coverage delivered by media titles across the UK has reduced dramatically compared to pre-pandemic. The Fringe Society’s new pilot project aims to promote arts journalism as an attractive and viable career choice for emerging talent.

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An estimated 65-70,000 people flocked to London’s Trafalgar Square this weekend (Sat 17 & Sun 18 June) for West End LIVE, Europe’s biggest free theatre festival. Theatre fans travelled from all over the UK and even further afield for this hotly anticipated highlight of the theatrical calendar.

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