The Stage Debut Awards are today announcing a stellar line-up of guest presenters and performances from the West End’s most popular musicals for their annual ceremony, in association with ATG Entertainment. As the UK’s only awards dedicated to celebrating breakthrough theatre talent, this prestigious event shines a spotlight on the industry’s rising stars from performers, directors, writers, composers and lyricists to set, costume, lighting, sound and video design.

Some of the biggest names in theatre will gather on Sunday, September 29, at 8Northumberland Avenue, London to honour this year’s standout talent. After her own triumphant debut as host last year, legendary drag artist, performer and singer Divina De Campo returns to once again lead the ceremony. The evening will recognise 49 nominees across eight categories — all who made remarkable professional debuts over the past year.

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How do you help people understand the law? For Ancient Greeks, it was making a song and dance about it. Many archaic lawgivers captured imaginations by composing laws to be sung, making them easy to remember. One of the first lectures in the 2024-25 academic year at Gresham College will explain more about the institution of legal rules in Greek antiquity Gresham College Professor of Rhetoric, Melissa Lane will give the lecture entitled Singing the Laws: Ancient Greek Lawgivers in History and Legend. Professor Lane says: “I’ve always been fascinated by the resonance of these figures of the great lawgivers from Greek history and legend. Some were possibly legendary, like Lycurgus of Sparta. Others were unquestionably historical, such as Solon of Athens. One of the things that really interests me is that these figures are not the inventors of law as such. The Greeks knew that there were laws that had evolved before these great lawgivers came along. But they celebrated these figures as having pulled together a set of laws for a given society, usually at a kind of moment of crisis and social factionalisation, creating new cultural identities that those societies could identify with going forward.”

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Following the release of his hit new album, 12 Notes, multi-platinum singer-songwriter Alec Benjamin announced his 2025 ‘12 Notes’ European Tour. The news follows demand for additional performances after Benjamin’s music festival tour stops in Europe and Asia this Summer, and high ticket sales for this 31-city North American headlining tour, kicking off on September 6th, Produced by Live Nation, the 31- city tour kicks off on March 5^th at Razzmatazz Room in Barcelona, Spain making stops across Europe, including four shows in the UK – Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and London, before wrapping up in Lithuania at Compensa Concert Hall on April 9th.

TICKETS: Presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning Friday 13th  September at 10amlocal time via LiveNation.co.uk. A Selection of VIP packages will be available via VIP Nation.

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Wandsworth Arts Fringe (WAF) is back from Fri 6 to Sun 22 June 2025 and Wandsworth Council is calling out for established and emerging artists to take part. Expressions of interest and applications for WAF Grants of up to £2,000 per project open today. The borough’s 2025 flagship festival of arts and culture will be the most ambitious yet, as Wandsworth has been chosen as The Mayor of London’s London Borough of Culture for 2025.

Every Summer, WAF brings together hundreds of creatives in a bold and boundary pushing annual line-up of cutting-edge theatre and dance, brand new music, exhibitions, comedy, performance art, outdoor extravaganzas and everything in between, taking place across the borough of Wandsworth. And this year it will be even grander as WAF becomes one of the highlights of our London Borough of Culture programme.

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Piecing various fragments of a puzzle together can seem challenging to some, effortless to others. Determining the culprit of a murder mystery a movement as old as human existence. Masters in the field skilled at arriving at their conclusions, a detective’s detail oriented eye is a tool that has been immortalised within many a work of fiction. A detective nation, detective stories continue to dominate our entertainment realm, Sherlock Holmes the most recognisable of fictional characters in the murder mystery genre. The Lost Estate keeping true to the tradition of dramatising these much loved stories with their The Great Murder Mystery dining experience.

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Jo Brand is headlining a stellar line-up of comedians at the Comedy Store next week to raise money for the Katie Piper Foundation.

Katie Piper OBE is hosting the evening on Tuesday 10th September at the Comedy Store in Leicester Square, London. As well as Jo Brand, the evening will also feature Andy Askins, Laura Smyth and Slim, with the incredibly talented Lee Peart acting as MC for the evening.

Katie Piper said: “This is the third year that we’ve held this fundraiser for the Katie Piper Foundation and I am so thrilled with this line up. Jo Brand is comedy royalty – I grew up loving her comedic style on TV and stand up and to have Slim, Andy and Laura as well as Lee Peart as our MC – it’s a night not to be missed!”

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The music world looked to Munich this August, where the groundbreaking Adele residency hit all the right notes and set multiple records. Over 730,000 fans from all over the world came to see the unique artist as part of her series of ten open-air concerts. The concerts took place in the bespoke Arena at the Messe in Riem, which was tailor-made for her. More than two thirds of the visitors celebrated before and after the performances in the adjacent, first of its kind, Adele World with its diverse entertainment and catering offerings.

With over 730,000 tickets sold, the Adele shows registered the highest attendance of any concert residency outside Las Vegas.

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