Dance Umbrella, London’s annual international dance festival,  announces the full 2025 festival programme taking place across London, and online from 2 – 31 October 2025.  “This year’s Festival brings together a vibrant mix of perspectives that highlight just how connected our lived experiences really are. Artists, creatives, and their wider communities help join the dots

I was halfway through cueing a scene change when I realized I had been speaking for nearly three minutes straight. Explaining, clarifying, anticipating questions before they came. The change happened smoothly, but I felt it, the mental drain that comes when you have spent more words than the moment really needed. Clarity is not free.

Host Anna Robb sits down with Emile Saba, a Palestinian theatre director, actor, and Artistic Director of Ashtar Theatre. From his early training in Ramallah to earning an MFA in stage performance in the U.S., Emile has built a career at the intersection of art, activism, and community healing. Under his leadership, Ashtar continues its

Host Anna Robb sits down with Natasha Tsakos, an award-winning showmaker whose work fuses theatrical adventure, technology, and impact. From street performances and TED Talks to large-scale productions for the UN, G20 Summit, and Cirque du Soleil, Natasha has redefined what live performance can be. Now, she’s taking theatre beyond Earth with PARABOLES, the world’s

Lost Atoms stars Joe Layton (ITV’s Coronation Street; Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD) and Hannah Sinclair Robinson (Metamorphosis, UK tour; The Play That Goes Wrong, West End). The play is written by Anna Jordan (Succession, Killing Eve, One Day, The Unreturning) and directed by Artistic Director of Frantic Assembly Scott Graham (Othello, Metamorphosis). Love’s strange, isn’t it? You think you’re going to feel it in your chest, or your gut. But I swear,

Following its critically acclaimed five-star world premiere and ahead of its London transfer, the award-winning new musical Hot Mess, described as ‘blazing’ (The Guardian) and ‘ingenious’ (The Scotsman), scooped five major awards and earned widespread acclaim from both press and audiences alike. Performed by Tobias Turley and Danielle Steers as Humanity and Earth respectively, the