This July, join the Royal Opera House for a special, live-streamed Insight. Actor and director Rikki Beadle Blair chairs a thought-provoking panel that features some of the UK’s most celebrated LGBTQ+ voices from across the creative industries.
Edinburgh International Festival is giving out over 35,000 free tickets to celebrate its 75thanniversary, with performances featuring leading contemporary circus performers and world-renowned orchestras as well as an immersive installation described as a ‘spa for the psyche’. The free programme is dedicated to the residents of Edinburgh who have opened their city and helped the International Festival to welcome the world to Scotland’s capital for the last 75 years.
Fiddler on the roof: Aidan O’Rourke (pictured on the roof of BT Murrayfield) appears in MACRO alongside Gravity & Other Myths, Djuki Mala, the National Youth Choir of Scotland and other Scottish musicians. Photo credit: Duncan McGlynn
TikTok and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society have announced an exclusive new partnership that will see the entertainment platform become the first Official Virtual Stage to the world’s premier performing arts festival.
38 shows have been announced as part of the inaugural A Pinch of VAULT, a new festival of live work-in-progress shows presented by VAULT Creative Arts. Taking place at VAULT Creative Arts’ brand new café, bar & creative space, The Glitch, and popular pub, Vaulty Towers, both in Waterloo, from Tuesday 5th July – Saturday 16th July 2022, A Pinch of VAULT will feature exciting and original shows from leading independent artists, across theatre and comedy.
The South Bank Show, one of the UK’s most loved and longest standing arts and culture programmes, returns on Wednesday 20th July on Sky Arts, Freeview channel 11, and NOW with three brand new episodes. The South Bank Sky Arts Awards ceremony will return to The Savoy London on Sunday 10th July, followed by its on-screen Sky Arts broadcast on Wednesday 13th July.
VAULT Festival, the UK’s leading independent showcase of live performance, has announced that applications are now open for artists to apply to perform at the next edition of VAULT Festival, returning to London from Tuesday 31st January 2023.
The National Theatre of Scotland announce their 2022 programme forming part of this year’s Edinburgh Festivals, including new Alan Cumming dance theatre, Burn, brand-new staging of Liz Lochhead’s Medea at the Edinburgh International Festival and Uma Nada-Rajah’s politically urgent Exodus as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Both EIF productions will tour across Scotland after the Festival. The cast announced for Liz Lochhead’s Medea includes Adura Onashile as Medea, Robert Jack as Jason, Stephen McCole as Kreon, Alana Jackson as Glauke, Anne Lacey as the Nurse and Adam Robertson as the Messenger. The National Theatre of Scotland supports a double bill of Annie George plays Home Is Not The Place and Twa at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and will also take part in the Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics (programme to be announced in July 2022).
The first prize of its kind, founded by author Penny Batchelor and publisher Clare Christian, open to authors with disabilities or chronic illnesses The Society of Authors is excited to announce the ADCI Literary Prize, an annual literary award open to authors with a disability or chronic illness, for novels that include a disabled or chronically ill character.
Founded by former playwright and Artistic Director of Changing Spaces Theatre Heather Jeffrey, London Pub Theatres Magazine has been a champion of our unique pub theatre scene. Having staged works with her theatre company at the Drayton Arms Theatre (Kensington), Old Red Lion Theatre (Islington), VAULT Festival (Waterloo), St Paul’s Church (Covent Garden), Cockpit Theatre (Marylebone) and Midlands Arts Centre (Birmingham), LPTM is a continuation of the celebration of new work created on our London fringe theatre stages. Having added to the revered publication with the introduction of the London Pub Theatre Awards in 2018, the LPTM team now look to expand their pool of reviewers and are inviting you to be a part of the next phase of their journey!
The Society for Theatre Research has awarded Stirring up Sheffield: An insider’s account of the battle to build the Crucible Theatre (Wordville) the Society for Theatre Research Theatre Book Prize for 2022.
