Friday, November 7, 2014
Always attracted to experimental and innovative productions, actor Amanda Hadingue is currently performing in a new version of Gogol's The Gamblers, reinterpreted with an all-female cast. Ho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PM[SHARE]The Royal Ballet and English National Ballet have received 20 nominations between them for the National Dance Awards. The awards, now in its 15th year, also includes a new emerging artist ca…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2014
A new film version of the Royal Exchange Theatre's production of Hamlet, starring Maxine Peake, will be released in cinemas in 2015. The stage production, which was directed by Sarah Frankco…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PM[SHARE]Management of Rhyl's Pavilion Theatre could be outsourced to a private company as part of "unavoidable" cuts from the local council. The theatre, which is owned and operated by Denbighshire …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AM[SHARE]Christopher Barron is to leave his post as chief executive of Birmingham Royal Ballet after a decade in the role. Barron will leave the organisation after its current season, which ends in J…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AM[SHARE]HighTide Festival is set to move from Halesworth, Suffolk, to the nearby town of Aldeburgh, in a move organisers hope will help the event "better execute its aims". The 2015 festival will al…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AM[SHARE]The area around the Liverpool Empire, Playhouse and Royal Court theatres is to be regenerated to create a new artistic quarter in the city. The St George's Quarter Community Interest Company…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2014
The future of London's Union Theatre has been secured after a planning application was approved that will see it relocate to a new space. In 2013, the theatre came under threat when Network …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AM[SHARE]Circus company Extraordinary Bodies has won £100,000 as part of the Clore Anniversary Prize. Extraordinary Bodies is the UK's only permanent circus company made up equally of diasabled an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AM[SHARE]Boris Johnson has hit back at claims that more should be done to address the regional gap in arts funding, describing them as "glib London bashing". The mayor of London was responding to the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:11AM[SHARE]MPs have called for Arts Council England to address the imbalance of funding between London and the regions with "greater urgency". A report published by the culture, media and sport select …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Production news stories featured on The Stage website from October 28 to November 4. MUSICALS Full casting has been announced for the UK tour of Return to the Forbidden Planet, with Queen gu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for a UK tour of Return to the Forbidden Planet, featuring Queen guitarist Brian May, who will appear via video projection. The production, which will take pl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2014
Jimmy Walters began his career as an actor, but always felt more aligned to directing. After the launch of his company, Proud Haddock, which became the first ever to stage a show in London's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2014
Joanna Bowen, who began her career as an actor and comedian, is the director of storytelling festival Fireside. Currently in its second year, the festival takes place over two weekends in No…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2014
Laura Wade's Posh will be revived as part of Nottingham Playhouse's spring 2015 season, which also includes two new commissions and Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing. Posh, which ran at the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:35PM[SHARE]Bat Boy: The Musical will be revived at Southwark Playhouse next year. The musical, which received its UK premiere in 2004 at West Yorkshire Playhouse prior to a run at the Shaftesbury Theat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AM[SHARE]The Society of London Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe and the Royal College of Music are among organisations who will adopt new London-specific web addresses. The domain names, which end .londo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AM[SHARE]Drayton Arms Theatre, London: This piece is something of a curiosity, being one of Ibsen's early and lesser-known works, and has not been professionally staged in the UK since 1930.
Rea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Kristin Scott Thomas will play the Queen in The Audience when it returns to the West End next year. Scott Thomas, who is currently starring in Electra at the Old Vic, will star in Peter̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2014
A project aimed at promoting gender equality on UK stages has been announced, which will culminate in a festival of new work at the National Theatre. Women Centre Stage, created by Sphinx Th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:44PM[SHARE]The Theatres Trust has warned that Scarborough's Futurist Theatre will face demolition after the proposed bidder 
for the site was named as theme park 
Flamingo Land. Details of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AM[SHARE]The shortlist has been announced for the 2014 Alfred Fagon award for best new play of the year. The award, which is in its 18th year, celebrates the work of black British playwrights of Cari…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:58AM[SHARE]National Youth Theatre chief executive Paul Roseby has claimed drama should 
be scrapped from the GCSE curriculum as a stand-alone subject, with its teaching integrated into other less…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Equity has submitted a claim for a 
new commercial theatre agreement, with terms that include proposed changes to allowances and increased minimum rates on tours. The claim calls for c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AM[SHARE]The National Theatre's stage adaptation of The Cat in the Hat will return to London in a new production at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington. Following a run at the Edinburgh Fringe this ye…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Production stories featured on The Stage website from October 21 to 28: PLAYS Regent's Park Open Air Theatre has announced its 2015 season, which includes productions of Peter Pan, The Seagu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:24PM[SHARE]The Society of London Theatre has announced that it will renew its West End Wednesdays promotion, which offers half price tickets to West End shows on Wednesdays. Initially launched in July …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AM[SHARE]Regent's Park Open Air Theatre has announced its 2015 season, which includes productions of Peter Pan, The Seagull and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. The theatre has also announced that it…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2014
English Touring Theatre has announced that James Quaife will be joining the company as producer. He will work alongside ETT's director, Rachel Tackley, as well as executive producer Jane Cla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 25, 2014
Writer, actor and comedian Hatty Ashdown's debut sitcom, Give Out Girls, takes inspiration from her years of doing promotional work between acting jobs. Currently showing on Comedy Centra…
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