Wednesday, January 28, 2015
The future of two theatres in south 
London have been secured after their local council agreed to outsource their management to a private company. The Secombe and Charles Cryer Studio …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AM[SHARE]Rory Mullarkey is to adapt Greek tragedy The Oresteia for Shakespeare’s Globe later this year. Mullarkey won both the George Devine Award and the Pinter Commission in 2014 for The Wolf…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the National Theatre’s upcoming productions of Man and Superman and Rules for Living. Claudie Blakey, Deborah Findlay and Miles Jupp join the previo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2015
After achieving success with his parody Twitter account @Tips4Actors, actor and comedian Fergus Craig has written a follow-up book, Tips for Actors, offering advice from stealing the show to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PM[SHARE]After achieving success with his parody Twitter account @Tips4Actors, actor and comedian Fergus Craig has written a follow-up book, Tips for Actors,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2015
Production news stories published on The Stage website between January 13 to 20. MUSICALS ' Full casting has been announced for the musical stage adaptation of Sue Townsend's The Secret Diar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PM[SHARE]A rural touring scheme 
in the Midlands is facing 
closure after Leicestershire County Council withdrew its annual £11,500 funding. Centre Stage, which has brought professiona…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:43AM[SHARE]The Conservative Party has pledged to support cultural education and arts training if it wins the general election in May, with culture minister Ed Vaizey claiming they are among his top pri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Rufus Norris has said that as artistic director of the National Theatre his main priorities will be “partnership, emerging talent, breadth, living writers and above all, excellenceR…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:05AM[SHARE]Rufus Norris' first season as artistic director of the National Theatre will include new work by Patrick Marber, Duncan Macmillan and Caryl Churchill, as well as a musical by Damon Albarn an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]Monday, January 19, 2015
Simon Russell Beale has been named as the Cameron Mackintosh visiting professor of contemporary theatre at the University of Oxford for 2015. Russell Beale will be based at St Catherine̵…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the musical stage adaptation of Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾, which opens at Leicester's Curve in March. Rosemary Ash…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
Greg Wise will lead the cast of Brad Fraser’s Kill Me Now at the Park Theatre next month. Wise is joined by Oliver Gomm, Charlotte Harwood, Jack McMullen and Anna Wilson-Jones in the p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AM[SHARE]Phill Jupitus and David Bedella have joined the UK tour of The Producers. Jupitus will play Franz, while Bedella wil play the role of Roger de Bris. Cory English and Tiffany Graves will also…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
Cultural policymakers should do more to support arts activity outside the education system, as well as put more emphasis on encouraging the arts among pre-school aged children, according to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:33AM[SHARE]Ivo van Hove’s production of A View from the Bridge will be broadcast to cinemas as part of National Theatre Live in March. The Young Vic production, which transfers to Wyndham’s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AM[SHARE]Blackpool's Pavilion Theatre, which has been out of use for around 20 years and was added to the Theatre Buildings at Risk Register last year, is to be developed into a museum that will cele…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2015
The London Palladium will host the UK premiere of new musical Beyond Bollywood later this year. The show, which premiered in Mumbai, is written, choreographed and directed by Rajeev Goswami,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AM[SHARE]Blanche McIntyre is to direct Greek tragedy The Oresteia as part of the opening season of Manchester's Home, which will also include a revival of Walter Meierjohann's staging of Kafka's Monk…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AM[SHARE]Production news stories published on The Stage website from January 2 to 13. MUSICALS She Loves Me will be revived at the Landor Theatre in London later this year. The musical, which premier…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:29AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of John Hollingworth’s Multitudes, which opens at the Tricycle Theatre in February. Clare Calbraith will appear alongside Navin C…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The music, performing and visual arts sector, which includes theatre, is now worth £5.4 billion a year to the UK economy, new figures from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:37AM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
Plans to convert Brighton Hippodrome into a multi-screen cinema complex have been thrown into doubt after cinema chain Vue pulled out of the project. A statement from Vue confirmed its withd…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 10, 2015
After taking up the piano as a teenager, Alex Parker's aspirations soon turned to musical direction. Unable to find the experience he needed, he began producing his own shows as well. His la…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2015
An awards scheme celebrating the best of Welsh culture is to undergo an overhaul that will see both professional and aspiring critics work together to judge its categories, in what organiser…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AM[SHARE]Cardiff’s first pub theatre, the Other Room, has announced its inaugural season, which includes Sarah Kane’s Blasted and a new bi-lingual play by Alun Saunders. Blasted will be d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2015
Backstage union BECTU is calling for a 5% pay increase for its members working in regional theatres as well as the adoption of the living wage, as part of a new claim submitted to trade̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PM[SHARE]The Bush Theatre has agreed a partnership with the West12 shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush, which will donate £6,000 to support a ticket scheme at the venue. The 12-month partners…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for Sheffield Theatres’ Sarah Kane season, which begins in February. The season includes productions of three of Kane’s plays – Blasted, Cra…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:23AM[SHARE]Playwright David Edgar has been announced as this year’s visiting professor of drama studies at Oxford University, which will see him host a week-long series of talks and debates over …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2015
York Theatre Royal is to be sold by the City of York Council to a conservation trust for the nominal sum of £1. The theatre, which has been under council ownership for around 300 years,&#…
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