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,&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AM[SHARE]Iain Gillie has been announced as the new chairman of Out of Joint, while producer Vicky Graham will join the company as in-house producer. Gillie is currently managing director of PW Produc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Jonathan Pryce will play Shylock in The Merchant of Venice as part of Shakespeare’s Globe’s summer season, which also includes As You Like It, starring Michelle Terry. Pryce, who…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PM[SHARE]Andrew Scott, Ian McKellen and Julian Rhind-Tutt have been nominated for best actor at the 2015 BBC Audio Drama Awards. Scott, who is nominated for Slipping by Claudine Toutoungi, is up agai…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:34AM[SHARE]A dispute between the National Theatre and former musicians in the West End production of War Horse has reached a “satisfactory resolution”, according to a statement made by the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AM[SHARE]Sharon D Clarke is to appear in Sally Cookson’s production of Romeo and Juliet at the Rose Theatre in Kingston, which also stars Audrey Brisson and Joseph Drake as the eponymous lovers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AM[SHARE]Christine Bottomley and Neil D’Souza will join the previously announced Maxine Peake in How to Hold Your Breath at the Royal Court. Bottomley’s theatre credits include Alaska and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AM[SHARE]Friday, January 2, 2015
Cassie Compton and Stephanie Fearon are to lead the cast of musical Molly Wobbly, which opens at Leicester Square Theatre later this month. Compton and Fearon are joined in the cast by Jane …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Kristin Scott Thomas has been made a dame in the 2015 New Year honours list, while fellow actors Joan Collins and John Hurt have been recognised with a damehood and knighthood respectively. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 28, 2014
Tom Piper is a theatre designer, currently working on the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Christmas Truce, based on the Christmas Day football match played on the battlefields of the firs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Abigail Pogson has been named as the new managing director of Sage Gateshead. She will take up the post in May 2015, succeeding Anthony Sargent, who announced in April that he would be stand…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AM[SHARE]Production news stories featured on The Stage website from December 16 to 23. MUSICALS Glenn Carter is to star as Jesus in a UK tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, which will also feature Rhydia…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AM[SHARE]Monday, December 22, 2014
East Lindsey District Council will transfer its leisure and cultural services to an external charitable trust as of January 1, in a move that will save the council £700,000 per year. Newl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PM[SHARE]West End show Neville’s Island has claimed it has been confirmed as the first production to benefit from theatre tax relief in the UK. Jamie Hendry Productions, which produces the show…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:08AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 20, 2014
Having never seen a pantomime as a child, Pete Dunwell fell in love with Christmas shows when he started performing in them. This year, he is taking on the role of Father Christmas in Santa&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2014
Katy Harris is a show director for Disneyland Paris, where she has worked for 21 years. Explain your role at Disneyland. I am a show director for Disneyland Paris, which basically entails fo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2014
New guidance could see theatres with suspended fibrous ceilings recommended to appoint dedicated members of staff to monitor them, as well as carry out regular inspections. A working party l…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:05AM[SHARE]Arts Council England has announced the recipients of the 17th round of its strategic touring programme, which includes the Southbank Centre, Leeds Theatre Trust and dance company Jabadao. 12…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Former stage manager Rachael Presdee, who was paralysed 
in a fall while working at 
Soho Theatre, has urged the industry to "start having a deeper look" at health and safety for…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Production news stories featured on The Stage website between December 9 to 16. PLAYS The Railway Children has extended its run at the specially-built King’s Cross Theare until Septemb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AM[SHARE]Nimax Theatres will not be prosectued for the partial ceiling collapse that occured at the Apollo Theatre in December last year. An investigation undertaken by Westminster City Council has c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Harriet Walter will join the previously announced Anthony Sher and Alex Hassell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Death of a Salesman, which runs next year. The production, which runs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for Little Light, a new play by Alice Birch, which will run at the Orange Tree Theatre next year. Lorna Brown, Paul Hickey, Yolanda Kettle and Paul Rattray will ap…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AM[SHARE]Caryl Churchill, Neil LaBute and Mark Ravenhill are among 10 playwrights commissioned to write short plays around issues of censorship and boycott in the arts. Presented by Offstage Theatre …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2014
Kelly Jones has been named as the recipient of the Wales Drama Award 2014. Jones wins £10,000 and the opportunity to develop her ideas with BBC Cymru Wales and National Theatre Wales, whi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PM[SHARE]Soho Theatre has been fined £30,000 for the incident involving former stage manager Rachael Presdee in 2012, which left her paralysed. The theatre, which pleaded guilty to health and safe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 14, 2014
A successful performing career led Kinny Gardner to set up Krazy Kat Theatre Company in 1982. The company creates children's work entirely in sign language, which regularly tours theatres, a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2014
The first National College for the Creative and Cultural Industries is to be established at High House Production Park in Thurrock, with backing from the government. The college will open in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AM[SHARE]New shadow minister for the arts Chris Bryant has claimed that measures outlined by chancellor George Osborne 
in the autumn statement will make things "worse" for local authority arts…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the line-up for its 2015 Globe On Screen season, which includes The Duchess of Malfi, Titus Andronicus and The Comedy of Errors. It is the fifth seaso…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AM[SHARE]Production news stories featured on The Stage website between December 2 to 9. MUSICALS ' Beatles musical Let It Be will return to the West End next year to run at the Garrick Theatre. It…
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