Wednesday, December 10, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Full casting has been announced for the UK tour of Twelve Angry Men, which includes Coronation Street actor Andrew Lancel. Lancel joins the previously announced Tom Conti, alongside Robert D…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AM[SHARE]Charlie Brooks and Tanya Franks are to star in Contact.Com at Park Theatre next year. Brooks and Franks will be joined by Jason Durr and Ralph Aiken to play two couples who meet over theR…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AM[SHARE]Judi Dench has revealed that she initially wanted to be a set designer, not an actor. Speaking about her career at an event at the National Theatre, Dench said that she only changed her mind…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2014
Beatles musical Let It Be will return to the West End next year, to run at the Garrick Theatre. It will replace The Scottsboro Boys at the Garrick, where it also played earlier this yearR…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AM[SHARE]Maureen Lipman is to join the cast of Lindsay Posner’s new production of Harvey, which opens at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in February. Lipman joins the previously announced James Dr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AM[SHARE]Directors George Mann and Alexander Zeldin have been named as the recipients of the Quercus Trust Award 2015, and have been appointed associate directors at Bristol Old Vic and Birmingham Re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 7, 2014
Terri Baker has worked for Cirque du Soleil as the artistic director on various shows across the world since 2008. She is currently on tour with Kooza, which runs at the Royal Albert Hall ne…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2014
Orlando James and Eve Ponsonby are to take over the lead roles in the West End production of Shakespeare in Love, which is currently running at the Noel Coward Theatre. James and Ponsonby wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2014
Labour MP Chris Bryant has been appointed shadow minister for the arts, a position he has labelled “just about the best job there is”. “The arts and media touch nearly e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PM[SHARE]Richard Armitage has claimed performers need to have built a profile through television work before being cast in lead roles on the West End stage. The actor admitted he himself had opted fo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:44AM[SHARE]Playwright Dennis Kelly has praised the UK as the best place in the world for new writers, arguing that "no other country looks at writing the way we do". "I've been all over the world…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AM[SHARE]Arts leaders have warned that a projected 33% cut in local government culture spending would be "catastrophic" for the industry. Analysis undertaken by Tony Travers from the London School of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Manchester is to get a new multi-million pound theatre, which will be home to the Manchester International Festival and will be part funded by £78 million from the government. The Factory…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AM[SHARE]A £4.8 million restoration of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Wing will get underway in January, and will transform the area around the company’s Swan Theatre. The facade…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AM[SHARE]Production news stories featured on The Stage website from November 25 to December 2. MUSICALS ' Idina Menzel has announced a new UK and Ireland tour next summer. Menzel, who is currently st…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AM[SHARE]Public figures including Andrew Lloyd Webber, the former culture secretary Chris Smith and actor and politician Michael Cashman, have joined the debate on arts education in schools. Lloyd We…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Idina Menzel is set to tour the UK and Ireland next year. Menzel, who is currently appearing in If/Then on Broadway, will begin her tour at the Bord Gais Theatre in Dublin on June 20….
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 29, 2014
Eric Potts not only writes all of First Family Entertainment's pantomimes across the UK, but directs and stars in one too What is your role within the company? I write all of 10 scripts each…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2014
Wales Millennium Centre has claimed to have sold more than £100 million worth of tickets since its opening a decade ago. The centre, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this week, has r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the forthcoming production of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, which tours next year. Gerard McCarthy and Vanessa Babirye will play Tony and Leah …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:37AM[SHARE]Bea Roberts and Paul Murphy have won the inaugural Theatre 503 playwriting award for their plays And Then Come the Nightjars and Valhalla. The award, financially supported by the Richard Car…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 27, 2014
Islngton’s King’s Head Theatre has announced its programme for the first half of 2015, which includes the stage premiere of Richard O’Brien’s Shock Treatment, the seq…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2014
The Print Room has announced its second season at the Coronet in Notting Hill, which includes the world premiere of a new Robert Holman play. A Breakfast of Eels will be directed by Robert H…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:04PM[SHARE]Home, Manchester’s new centre for contemporary visual art, theatre and film has announced that it will open on May 21, ahead of a weekend of programming that includes a new work by Sim…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AM[SHARE]Theatre company Les Enfants Terribles will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with an immersive production staged in the Vaults …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Production stories published on The Stage website between November 18 and 25. MUSICALS ' Lucy May Barker and James O'Connell have joined the cast of the touring production of Oklahoma!, whic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:28PM[SHARE]The Bush Theatre has announced its spring/summer programme for 2015, which includes a new play by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and the London transfer of The Angry Brigade. Artistic director Madani Yo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2014
Tom Conti will reprise his role in Twelve Angry Men when the show tours the UK in 2015. Conti starred in the production when it ran at London’s Garrick Theatre earlier this year, and w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PM[SHARE]Nicholas Hytner has won the Critics' Circle's annual award for services to the arts in Britain. Other nominees included composer Neville Marriner, actor Emma Thompson, choreographer Matthew …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AM[SHARE]Theatre company Tara Arts has begun work on a year-long project that will see its south London base transformed into a national hub for cross-cultural theatre. The new £2.5 million buildi…
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