In a country ruled by a despot and stripped of all its precious liberties, only burlesque queen Miss Stormy can save America.

Stingaree Productions presents Stormy – The Opera written and directed By Kay Adshead .

Starring John R. Stronks as Stormy Soul, Kay Adshead as Stormy...

Congratulations to Samantha Harvey on being shortlisted for the second annual Staunch Book Prize! The £1,000 award was set up in 2018 by author Bridget Lawless and aims to find the best thrillers in which no woman gets beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered in response to violence of women depicted in books, TV and film.

Congratulations to David Szalay on his latest book, TURBULENCE (Jonathan Cape, 2019) being awarded both the main £10,000 prize and the £1,000 Reader's Choice Award at the Edge Hill Short Story Prize this year! Originally commissioned by BBC Radio 4, the collection of stories has received critical acclaim since the publication of the print edition:

'More tales of mortality from a master of the genre ... [ Turbulence ] is a chilling achievement .’ Evening Standard

'Szalay’s mixture of directness and withholding looks increasingly masterly .’ Financial Times

‘An ingenious literary chain letter .' iNews

Today, the shortlist is announced for the 2019 BroadwayWorld UK Awards , celebrating the best long-running West End productions and best new productions from around the country, and we're delighted to have a wealth of UA clients nominated!

The much loved comedy by Michael Frayn Noises Off is now showing at the Garrick Theatre after a successful run at Lyric Hammersmith. Directed by the wonderful Jeremy Herrin, it has been wonderfully reviewed! A high-energy and much loved comedy.

'I envy those discovering it in Herrin’s production —...

UA’s Cinematographer Peter Suschitzky has collaborated with Dulwich Picture Gallery for their landmark exhibition celebrating 350 years since Rembrandt’s death.

Peter has worked with the gallery’s Director Jennifer Scott and Assistant Curator Helen Hillyard on the exhibition which opened last night and runs until February.

https://dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2019/october/rembrandts-light/

Philip Pullman’s THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH is published today by David Fickling Books in association with Penguin Random House in the UK and Random House Children’s in the US, and will subsequently be available in thirty foreign territories worldwide. THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH is the second book in the Book of Dust...

The shortlist for the coveted East Anglian Book Awards 2019 has been revealed, celebrating the very best of publishing, writing and reading in the region. Now in their 12th year, the awards celebrate writing talent within the East of England. 
The East Anglian Book Awards are a partnership between Jarrold, EDP, and the National Centre for Writing, supported by UEA Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the PACCAR Foundation.

George Szirtes ' THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN (Maclehose Press, 2019) has been shortlisted in the 'Biography and Memoir' category.

MANCUNIA, the latest poetry collection by Michael Symmons Roberts , has been longlisted for the Portico Prize 2019! Once described as ‘the Booker of the North’, The Portico Prize awards £10,000 to the book that best evokes the spirit of the North of England. The biennial prize is the UK’s only award of its kind, and accepts submissions across all formats including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

We’re delighted to announce that Adam Mars-Jones has won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Box Hill , a strangely tragic love story between two men set in the gay biker community during the late 1970s. Initially made possible by an Arts Council grant in 2017, the prize looks for novels which explore and expand the possibilities of the form, which are innovative and imaginative in style, which tackle subjects and themes relevant to the world we live in. Adam Mars-Jones receives a £3,000 prize in the form of an advance against publication, and Box Hill will be published in Fitzcarraldo Editions’ fiction list in March 2020.