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Children's programming is to be removed from BBC1 and BBC2, while BBC3 and BBC4 will reduce their investment in original UK drama, the BBC Trust said today.

Andrew Lloyd Webber will be presented with a fellowship by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors at the Ivor Novello Awards tomorrow.

A new adaptation of Ben Hur by the writer of the stage version of The 39 Steps is to premiere at the Watermill Theatre next month.

Chris Moyles is to play the man who ordered the death of Jesus in the 40th anniversary production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Time to emigrate?

Age: Uncertain, but at least 49 when he died; about 2,032 had he lived.

Appearance: At the London O2 arena come September, before embarking on a nationwide tour.

What? He has risen from the dead? He's not going to start murdering firstborns from Docklands to Durham, is he? Because that's really going to kill the post-Olympics buzz. No. You're thinking of Herod the Great.

Who are you talking about then?...

Sadler's Wells, London

The beating heart of Rambert's new programme is L'Après-Midi d'un Faune – the ballet of dappled, feral eroticism that launched Nijinsky's choreographic career. Rambert acquired Faune in 1931 and today's revival goes a long way to reminding us how sexy, touching and strange it must have originally seemed.

Stripped of the monumental Bakst backdrop that usually frames it (too large, too unaffordable for 1930s Rambert) and performed by a wonderfully alert cast, this Faune has an entrancing intimacy. Dane Hurst in the title role does vivid...

Her play Posh was inspired by the violent antics of the Bullingdon Club. Laura Wade tells Kira Cochrane why she has updated it for a post-riot, Tory-led, bankrupt Britain

One evening during the first run of her play Posh, the writer Laura Wade was drawn into a heated argument in the interval. An audience member demanded to know just why she hated Old Etonians. The person was very cross, she says, and asked "what [Old Etonians] had ever done to me. As if I was enacting some sort of dreadful personal slight against an...

London theatregoers may have another chance to Tracie Bennett's Tony-nominated performance as troubled actress and singer Judy Garland. End of the Rainbow::E8831265813158 finishes its Broadway run on 2 September 2012 and then sets off on a three-mon...

World Stages London, led by a consortium of eight Off-West End producing theatres working with international collaborators, is now under way. Of the inaugural season of six productions this summer, three have so far opened: Wild Swans::E8831335170776...

Beautiful Burnout, the award-winning show by Frantic Assembly and the National Theatre of Scotland, will be revived this autumn. The show, which received a Fringe First and universal critical acclaim when it premiered at the Edinburgh Fe...