Monday, September 1, 2014
Gemma Jones will star in a new production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals at London's Arcola Theatre next month. Jones, best known for her roles in films such as Bridget Jones's Di…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PM[SHARE]The Liverpool Empire will be the only UK venue outside of London to host the international touring production of Mamma Mia! in 2015. The production will run at the Empire from February 20 to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 31, 2014
She has danced all over the world in some of the most prestigious and high-profile dance companies, but aged 30, Michelle Ryan was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease that damaged h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 30, 2014
Tempest Rose left a career in acting to pursue burlesque 10 years ago. A successful soloist, she also runs burlesque company House of Burlesque and comperes its latest show at London Wonderg…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2014
Matthew Seadon-Young will replace Richard Fleeshman as Bobby Strong in the West End transfer of Urinetown, which will also see Nathan Amzi join the cast. Seadon-Young appeared in the show wh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 28, 2014
Maxine Peake is among a group of actors, musicians and artists calling for tougher action against government cuts to public services, which would see arts funding return to pre-2010 levels. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Former performing arts college Bretton Hall in West Yorkshire is to be transformed into a 120-bedroom luxury hotel, following a successful planning application. The grade II-listed building,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Simon Lipkin is to star in a production of As You Like it at Southwark Playhouse next month. Lipkin, who recently appeared in I Can't Sing at the London Palladium, will play Touchstone and w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2014
Fresh from a year as assistant director to Jamie Lloyd on his Trafalgar Transformed season, Edward Stambollouian is directing Awkward Conversations with Animals I've F*cked, a new play by Ro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:16AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2014
13 years ago, actor Fiona Geddes won a scholarship from The Stage to do an acting foundation course. This summer she has written and is starring in one-woman show Normal/Madness at the Edinb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:07AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2014
The Menier Chocolate Factory has launched a new subsidised theatre tickets scheme, which will offer £10 tickets to young people. The Golden Tickets scheme, which has been launched in coll…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:27AM[SHARE]Producers of Motown The Musical have confirmed that the show, currently running on Broadway, will come to the West End in 2015. The production, which will close in New York next January with…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2014
Shakespeare in Love, which is running at London's Noel Coward Theatre, has extended its booking period to January 10, 2015, releasing almost 76,000 extra tickets. The production, a stage ada…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:09PM[SHARE]Charity Wakefield, Bryan Dick, Rebecca Grant and Oliver Hembrough will join the previously announced Roger Allam in Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar when it runs at the Hampstead Theatre this …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AM[SHARE]Alun Armstrong, Kenneth Cranham and Greg Hicks are set to appear in productions at Theatre Royal Bath's Ustinov Studio as part of its autumn season. The season of three black comedies begins…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:59AM[SHARE]Actors and directors are being called on to contribute to a research project that is aiming to create the most comprehensive database on black and Asian Shakespeare performance in the UK. Mu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2014
The Lyric Hammersmith has appointed marketing agency Boom Ents to run its marketing campaign when the theatre reopens next spring following a multi-million pound refurbishment. Boom Ents was…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:09PM[SHARE]Arts organisations Tara Arts Group, ZeroPlus Theatre and Raw Material Music and Media are set to receive Arts Council End grants totalling more than £650,000. The funding forms the 15th r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AM[SHARE]The shortlist has been announced for this year's Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, with James Acaster, Alex Horne and Sara Pascoe all among the nominees for the main prize. The awards, now i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AM[SHARE]A former Sunderland fire station, which has been derelict for the past 22 years, is set to become the centre of a new cultural quarter in the city as part of a £10 million project….
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AM[SHARE]Underbelly director Charlie Wood has said the protest in Edinburgh that forced Israeli show The City to be cancelled was "the worst situation" he had ever dealt with in 20 years of working a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:59AM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2014
Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense is set to end its West End run next month, despite plans to extend the show until 2015. The show had previously extended its booking period until Janua…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PM[SHARE]Pilot Theatre is to head up a four-year international cooperation project, thanks to a €2 million (£1.6 million) grant from the European culture funding stream, Creative Europe. Pla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AM[SHARE]The world premiere of a new musical adaptation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles will take place at the New Wimbledon Studio Theatre next month. The adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel, which has …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2014
Australian performer Michael Griffiths may have starred in some of the world's best known musicals, including Priscilla Queen of the Desert, but the opportunity to do his own cabaret as a ho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53PM[SHARE]Hammed Animashaun has spent the last year working in ensemble with the Lyric Hammersmith's Secret Theatre, performing five shows to an audience without any knowledge of their titles. The com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37PM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2014
Buskers in Liverpool will now be able to make money from their performances without needing a licence to busk, thanks to a new guide drawn up by the Musicians' Union, Liverpool City Council …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
The Stage has scooped an exclusive review of controversially cancelled Edinburgh Fringe show The City, from Israeli company Incubator Theatre. The production, a hip-hop musical due to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00PM[SHARE]Kim Criswell and Daragh O'Malley are to star in a touring production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which opens next month. American actor Criswell, who was nominated for an O…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PM[SHARE]Theatre Royal Plymouth has announced its 2014/15 season, which includes commissioned work by James Graham and D C Moore. The Angry Brigade by Graham will premiere at the Theatre Royal on Sep…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AM[SHARE]The Thameside Theatre in Thurrock could face closure after the council called for an appraisal into its future. In a report, the local authority, which owns and runs the Thameside, has said …
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