Due to incredible demand, Chris Stapleton adds final European show to his colossal ‘All American Road Show’ World tour. The newly announced date will take place on 24th October at London’s iconic The O2, tickets go on general sale Friday 7th June at 10am via LiveNation.co.uk
The upcoming performances celebrate Stapleton’s critically acclaimed new album, Higher, which was released last year on Mercury Nashville. (Produced by Dave Cobb, Morgane Stapleton and Chris Stapleton, Higher was recorded at Nashville’s RCA Studio A and showcases his supernatural voice and musical versatility across 14 songs that defy genre. The new music adds to yet another landmark year for the 8x Grammy, 16x ACM and 15x CMA Award-winner, most recently winning Male Vocalist at last year’s 57th Annual CMA Awards.
One of the country’s most respected and beloved musicians, in the past year Stapleton was named Entertainer of the Year at the 58th ACM Awards—resulting in a prestigious ACM Triple Crown Award—and Male Vocalist of the Year at the 2022 CMA Awards—his sixth time earning the award, setting the record for most wins ever in the category. Additionally, in February, he performed the National Anthem at Super Bowl LVII and has collaborated in recent years with Adele, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, P!nk, Sheryl Crow, Santana and many more.
Martha Watson Allpress’ Lady Dealer made its debut last year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and to critical acclaim. A year on, the hit show returns to the Bush Theatre for a month long run, again to critical acclaim. The show’s lead Charly, a drug dealer dealing with the after affects of heartbreak. Performer Alexa Davies, who reprises the role tells us more about the role, what she’s learned from taking part in the production and what audiences can expect!
A packed line-up featuring nearly every musical playing in the West End has been unveiled ahead of this year’s West End LIVE. This free celebration of London’s world-leading theatre scene comes to Trafalgar Square on the weekend of 22 and 
The Manchester Culture Awards are back for 2024 with nominations opening this week for the prestigious awards that recognise the city’s cultural and creative highlights over the last year.
The Southwark Playhouse have announced the FORGE artist development programme, a programme that will support 4 exceptional emerging companies who will become attached to the Playhouse for 9 months, receiving free rehearsal space to R&D ideas, dramaturgical support from the Southwark Playhouse senior artistic team, free office space for producers and a week-long slot to platform a show in ‘The Little’ space to a paying audience. The scheme will also provide industry mentorship from established theatre professionals and bespoke workshops from the Playhouse team on a variety of key learning topics, to guide and empower them in this creative journey.
Norwich Theatre, one of the leading cultural institutions in the UK, has released the findings of a survey that sheds light on theatre attendance patterns across Britain. In the survey of over 2,000 British adults, it was found that almost one in four Brits (24%) have never attended a theatre performance.
An adaptation of two 1929 treatise established pre WWII, The Geneva Conventions, now consisting of four treatise and three additional protocols crafted post WWII in 1949 set out humanitarian conditions of those impacted by conflict, these being wartime prisoners, civilians and military personnel. In a time of increasing conflict post 2020 which saw the beginnings of Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine in 2022, and the decades long tensions between Israel and Palestine resulting in the beginnings of the Israel/Hamas conflict in 2023 – with both conflicts still devastatingly dominating today’s world events, historically we’re at a critical point. Blank Productions mark the dark times that we’re in with Geneva Convention – a tale of what has been and sadly, what is to follow.