THE VICTORIA WOOD THEATRE Prepares to Remember VICTORIA WOOD on the 10th anniversary of her death on Monday 20 April 2026

Leading ladies Ria Jones and Sally Ann Triplett will be going into the recording studio during rehearsals for the brand-new musical FOURTEEN AGAIN, to record and film a...

BRAND-NEW MUSICAL FOURTEEN AGAIN Music & Lyrics Victoria Wood - Book Tom MacRae

Two of musical theatre’s most loved leading ladies will play best friends, RIA JONES (Lou) and SALLY ANN TRIPLETT (Peggy) in the world premiere of the brand-new musical FOURTEEN AGAIN at THE VICTORIA WOOD THEATRE, Bown...

Victoria Wood’s long-standing friendships, love of the Lake District and close connection to The Old Laundry Theatre in Bowness-on-Windermere comes full circle, as the intimate theatre is to be renamed THE VICTORIA WOOD THEATRE in honour of the much loved and talented star, who will continue to shin...

Music & song join IRVINE WELSH + so many voices at Voiced: The Festival for Endangered Languages Taking over the Barbican Centre in October 2025 With half of the world’s languages threatened to fall silent by the end of the century comes the first ever UK festival Voiced: The Festival for Endanger...

JOYFUL NEWS! OH DEAR, LOOK WHAT I GOT! The first book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury in 30+ years! The duo behind all-time children's classic We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury reunite, creating another timeless classic picture book tale to be published in hardback...

SKANDAR AND THE SPIRIT WAR By A.F. STEADMAN

Bloodthirsty unicorns with flaming farts, valiant unicorn riders, defiant and loyal friends – the magical coming-of-age series of Skandar books comes to a soaring end in Skandar and the Spirit War by A.F. Steadman, published by Simon & Schuster Children...

FEARLESS by LAUREN ROBERTS The hotly anticipated Romantasy and BookTok phenomenon

FEARLESS – is the epic conclusion and final book in the Powerless trilogy written by the viral phenomenon that is LAUREN ROBERTS - and her #1 global best-selling YA Romantasy novels.

Millions of fans across the gl...

Top Musical Theatre Talent for WORLD PREMIERE

The world premiere of the revolutionary new British musical CABLE STREET - opens at The Large, Southwark Playhouse Borough on Friday 16 February 2024 to Saturday 16 March 2024 (Press night: Monday 26 February 2024). CABLE STREET is a topical and ele...

The first full-size bronze statue of Virginia Woolf, by acclaimed sculptor Laury Dizengremel, will be unveiled in a stunning location on the Upper Terraces at Richmond Riverside on Wednesday 16 November at 2.30pm (1430hrs) by Virginia’s great niece Emma Woolf with her 2 year old son Ludovic Cecil Wo...

REGENERATE: Lost Songs from the Musicals FULL CAST ANNOUNCED FOR ONLINE CONCERT Olivier Award Winners ADRIAN LESTER, JANIE DEE, DOUGLAS HODGE, and GEORGE MAGUIRE Ex – SIX Queens NATALIE PARIS and GRACE MOUAT Plus DUNCAN JAMES, ANITA DOBSON, ALICE FEARN, LUKE FRIEND, FRANCES MAYLI MCCANN and many mor...

Musical Theatre Giants from around the world come together to support emerging talent - for one night only! REGENERATE: Lost Songs from the Musicals Elton John & Tim Rice - Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss - Masi Arare - Claude-Michel Schönberg & Alain Boublil - Adam Guettel - Stephen Schwartz - Maury Yeston...

‘He’ll be famous – a legend – I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in future – there will be books written about Harry – every child in our world will know his name!’ Chapter One: The Boy Who Lived - Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 2022: a magical journey in the UK...

A magical journey to celebrate 25 years of one of the world’s greatest children’s books … J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Today Bloomsbury announces its publishing plans for the 25th anniversary of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – a year-long campaign...

Underbelly and Highwire Entertainment Present ROUGE LONDON DEBUT
HEADLINING AT UNDERBELLY FESTIVAL SOUTHBANK First London Transfer Direct from Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Surprising, subversive and supremely sexy circus ROUGE makes its London debut at Underbelly Festival Southbank from Wednesda...

The inaugural NATIONAL DAY OF ARTS IN CARE HOMES will take place in care homes countrywide on TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2019 – an exciting day to highlight the great work in the arts going on in care homes and encouraging more! And today (11/06/19) sees the launch of the brand new ARTS IN CARE HOME...

CHINGLISH is the hilarious and tragic diary of a girl and her utterly bonkers family who live above their Chinese takeaway, written and illustrated by Sue Cheung, to be published by Andersen Press in September 2019.

CHINGLISH is a page-turning account of Sue Cheung‘s own adolescence - a firs...

Explosive Inaugural Season PERFORMANCE LAB Bringing the arts and scientific research together at UCL’s Bloomsbury Theatre and Grant Museum of Zoology

Experience eleven energetic live performances created from eleven experiments in science and the arts, as they explode onto the Bloomsbury Theatre...

Marking 35 years of one of the most enduring picture books of all time, a new special edition of BADGER’S PARTING GIFTS by Susan Varley includes a child friendly sharing guide from charity Child Bereavement UK, published by Andersen Press on Wednesday 30 January 2019.

BADGER’S PARTING GIFTS is...

By Leonard S Marcus & illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

“It is impossible to be too much on the side of the child” – Helen Oxenbury

Few can match the impact that the beloved illustrator Helen Oxenbury has had on the world of children’s literature with her wise and superbly drawn picture books. One...

Underbelly & Briefs Factory Presents

The world’s hottest all-male boylesque group will grab Christmas by the baubles in their dazzling headlining show BRIEFS: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS as it smashes into the stunning Leicester Square Spiegeltent for the festive season from 9 November 2018 – 3 January 201...

Featuring Dame Cleo Laine, Germaine Acogny, Richard Alston, Alfred Brendel, Cheryl Campbell, Lavinia Co-op, Christopher Green, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Judith Kerr OBE, Zandra Rhodes, Nawal El Saadawi, Valda Setterfield and many more

Water, water everywhere as the slick, wet, headliner German Circus SOAP, splashes into The Spiegeltent at Underbelly Festival Southbank from Thursday 3 May — Saturday 16 June 2018.

Master storyteller Robert Muchamore returns with his first stand-alone novel with his new publisher Hot Key Books on Thursday 6 September 2018.

A new Southbank Centre exhibition, Concrete Dreams, is announced today, bringing to life the creative spirit of iconic arts venues, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room and celebrating their public reopening after two years of extensive restoration and redesign.

What if your world goes wrong? KILLER T is the epic story spanning 10 years, following a group of teenagers drawn together as the world falls apart...

The third series of Paul Abbott's award-winning Channel 4 series continues shooting on location in Manchester until the end of March 2018.

The highly anticipated, powerful and brave debut novel by Ele Fountain about a child refugee publishes on Thursday 5 April 2018 by Pushkin Children’s Books for readers 10 years+.

Due to popular demand Sam Winston's unique participatory immersive installation Darkness Visible at Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library has been extended to Sunday 25 March 2018.

A real-life Christmas fairy tale with a happy ending as 10,000 copies of Chris Riddell’s Mr Underbed, the original friendly blue monster picture book goes to the printers...

Today, magic really did happen at Discover Children’s Story Centre...

Acclaimed artist, illustrator and typographer Sam Winston’s new immersive work Darkness Visible opens in the newly commissioned Dark Room at Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library.

The new 50th anniversary production of HAIR, the iconic rock musical runs at London’s fully immersive Off-West-End theatre, The Vaults, from Wednesday 4 October 2017 and is now to run to Saturday 13 January 2018...

The Old Laundry Theatre are delighted to announce the full cast, led by Bill Champion and Nadim Naaman, of the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn’s light-hearted, fun musical BY JEEVES...

STUFISH has designed the Rolling Stones new NO FILTER European Stadium Tour – which will take 59 articulated lorries to deliver the show to each stadium on its tour! The 13 shows kick off in Hamburg on 9 September 2017.

Top publishing editor hid her identity when submitting her debut manuscript...

The design for the Video Music Awards 2017 is the 26th design by UK based STUFISH for the MTV network – and the 3rd Video Music Awards (VMA). The show is a fantastic collaboration with MTV‘s creative team and STUFISH.

Andy Coxon has been cast in the iconic role of Berger, in the new 50th anniversary production of HAIR...

The stage design is by STUFISH Entertainment Architects who have designed every show for U2 since 1992. The design for the Joshua Tree Tour 2017 continues to push all boundaries of technology and engineering.

The Incredible Journey – A Boy and his Dog. An adventure about trust and friendship - that will give hope to readers young and old.

The world premiere of SOHO – a thrill ride of circus, street and theatre performance, re-creating the exciting, edgy and voyeuristic world of London’s Soho — created by rock’n’roll global power house Stufish, opens at West End’s The Peacock from Saturday 6 – Saturday 20 May 2017.

SOHO – just on...