Gemma Nettle

My Neighbour Totoro's puppetry team has claimed the craft is “often overlooked”.

Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream contestant Desmonda Cathabel is to play Princess Jasmine in the first UK and Ireland tour of Disney’s Aladdin

Theatre producer Eddie Kulukundis has been honoured with the installation of a plaque at the Actors Church in Covent Garden

Writing duo Bethany Tennick and Iona Ramsay have received the British Youth Music Theatre’s New Music Theatre Award

Ticketmaster UK boss Andrew Parsons has claimed star casting is encouraging younger audiences to come to the theatre, with “snappier shows” also likely to become more common

Former Royal and Derngate artistic director James Dacre has revealed further details of his new company Living Productions, which will work with artists such as Bola Agbaje, Roy Williams, Ralph Fiennes and Mike Poulton

Stage director Michael Blakemore has died at 95 in hospital after a short illness, according to United Agents

An "urgent" call for action to protect the future of dance in education has been made by leading bodies in the sector after it emerged that a number of universities have recently made cuts to courses

Samantha Barks will be returning to the role of Elsa in Disney’s Frozen in the West End from February next year

Discover the Onassis Foundation’s flagship arts centre, which includes an 880-seat theatre alongside numerous spaces, that has become a sanctuary for gutsy theatremakers working in a challenging climate for the arts in Greece