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"The human mortals want their winter here;
No night is now with hymn or carol blest."

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#ShakespeareSunday
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📸Judi Dench as Queen of the Faeries, @RSC, 1962

November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: WINTER ❄️

a cartoon of snoopy laying in a red shack in the snow with the words trendreisst below him

ALT: a cartoon of snoopy laying in a red shack in the snow with the words trendreisst below him

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November 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM

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Terribly sad news...

Playwriting legend Tom Stoppard has passed away.

#TomStoppard

November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM

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Paul Hilton on finding his own Scrooge, helping to save the Oldham Coliseum and why it’s good to cry at the theatre

The actor is starring in the @oldvictheatre.bsky.social's Christmas Carol this winter

Interview via @whatsonstage.bsky.social

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Paul Hilton on finding his own Scrooge, helping to save the Oldham Coliseum and why it’s good to cry at the theatre

The actor is starring in the Old Vic’s Christmas Carol this winter

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November 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM

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Sondheim stars recall their memories of the late, great composer to @whatsonstage.bsky.social

26 November, marks the anniversary of his passing

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Sondheim stars recall their memories of the late, great composer

Today, 26 November, marks the anniversary of his passing

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November 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM

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A new era for The Stage in print...

And you can find out more, guess where? Ye via @thestage.co.uk

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Editor Alistair Smith on plans for The Stage to become a monthly magazine

From January 2026, The Stage will no longer appear as a weekly newspaper but rather as a monthly magazine designed for deeper reading, says Alistair Smith

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November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM

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Theatre snubbed in autumn Budget.

Read all about it via @thestage.co.uk

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Theatre snubbed in autumn Budget

Demands the theatre sector made on the government aimed at stabilising the sector have been frustrated in the autumn Budget, with no boosts to tax relief for theatre, opera or dance announced

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November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM

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Put money in thy purse.
(Iago, Act 1 Scene 3)

#Shakespeare
#Budget

November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM

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Well jumping jack flash!

First look at the #RSC’s BFG!

Roald Dahl’s new stage play heads to Stratford-upon-Avon, @chichesterft.bsky.social and beyond

Take a look via @whatsonstage.bsky.social

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First look at the RSC’s BFG

Roald Dahl’s hit play heads to Stratford-upon-Avon, Chichester and beyond

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November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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The Sound of Music revival at #Curve – first look photos released via @whatsonstage.bsky.social

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The Sound of Music revival at Curve – first look photos released

These are a few of our favourite things!

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November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM

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The @nationaltheatre.org.uk ’s Ballet Shoes – photos released!

Katy Rudd’s production is back dancing on stage this Christmas

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National Theatre’s Ballet Shoes – photos released

Katy Rudd’s production is back dancing on stage this Christmas

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November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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Designer Ben Stones on his gigantic, easter egg laden-design for #Hamlet at the @nationaltheatre.org.uk

The show will be broadcast on #NTLive in January

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Designer Ben Stones on his gigantic, easter egg laden-design for Hamlet at the National Theatre

The show will be broadcast on NT Live in January

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November 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM

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Bess Wohl and Hannah Doran among Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalists

Read all about it via @thestage.co.uk

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Bess Wohl and Hannah Doran among Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalists

Broadway writer Bess Wohl and British-Irish debut playwright Hannah Doran are among the 10 finalists for this year’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

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November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM

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Ncuti Gatwa and Roy Williams win at inaugural audio storytelling awards The Speakies

All the runners and riders via @thestage.co.uk

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Ncuti Gatwa and Roy Williams win at inaugural audio storytelling awards The Speakies

Ncuti Gatwa and Roy Williams are among the artists to triumph at the first iteration of The British Audio Awards, also known as The Speakies

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November 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM

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Must I for that be made a common sink
For all the filth and rubbish of men's tongues
To fall and run into?
Some call me witch,
And being ignorant of myself, they go
About to teach me how to be one.

#TheWitchofEdmonton
#EarlyModernMonday

📸Eileen Atkins in @thersc 2014 production by Helen Maybanks

November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM

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Hilary Mantel adaptation leads Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse season

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Hilary Mantel adaptation leads Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse season

A new production of Death of a Salesman and a stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher will lead Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse’s 2026 season.

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November 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM

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You got that #FridayFeeling?
Damn right.

November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM

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UK Government to ban reselling theatre tickets for more than face value

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Government to ban reselling theatre tickets for more than face value

The proposed ban on reselling tickets for more than their original price is part of a bid to ‘destroy the operating model of ticket touts’

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November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM

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All My Sons with Bryan Cranston releases first look photos

Sneak peek via @whatsonstage.bsky.social

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All My Sons with Bryan Cranston releases first look photos

The revival is playing at Wyndham’s Theatre

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November 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM

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Good Chance to tour A Grain of Sand in 2026

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Good Chance to tour A Grain of Sand in 2026

The show has been in development since 2024

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November 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM

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IT'S SNOWING!❄️
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November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM

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EIF unveils collaboration with Festival D’Avignon and Holland Festival

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EIF unveils collaboration with Festival D’Avignon and Holland Festival

The three-year collaboration will kick off with a staging of a play inspired by Ibsen's An Enemy Of The People, opening in Amsterdam in June

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November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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Hurrah... best new play for us last year this...

@almeida.co.uk & Ava Pickett’s 1536 to transfer to West End

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