Thursday, June 5, 2014
The Royal Opera House production of The Wind of the Willows will return to London's West End this Christmas. Director and choreographer Will Tuckett's production will play an eight-week seas…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02PM[SHARE]English National Opera, the National Theatre and the Barbican are partnering on a project that will see the first ever "data scientist in residence" working across the three companies. The A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:50AM[SHARE]National Youth Theatre artistic director Paul Roseby has called for more financial support from the commercial sector, as the NYT increases its bursary funds from £80,000 to £100,000 t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:39AM[SHARE]A former cinema in Wellington, Shropshire, will be given a new lease of life as an arts centre after lying dormant for decades. The Clifton cinema, which closed in 1989 and was most recently…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Coca-Cola has been forced to cancel a flash mob that was planned to feature professional dancers after being challenged over its intention not to pay the performers involved. An advertisemen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2014
Purni Morell has announced the Unicorn Theatre's new season, her third as artistic director. The theatre has announced 14 productions which will be staged over the next year, including a new…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2014
Actress and academic Naomi Paxton, who edited The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays, has become one of 10 people to be named BBC Next Generation Thinkers for 2014. The list, a collaborati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2014
Imelda Staunton has backed a campaign calling for the use of wild animals in circuses to be banned. The actress, along with veteran actor Roger Moore, has written to the Queen urging her to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AM[SHARE]Alan Burkitt and Charlotte Gooch will return to the play the lead roles in Top Hat when it tours the UK later this year. Burkitt and Gooch, who starred in Irving Berlin’s musical when …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is celebrating its history by launching a website telling the story of the venue through digitised archives of items such as programmes, posters, photographs a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AM[SHARE]The Barbican is to open a new creative centre in Hackney Wick where theatre practitioners will be able to develop new work for performances at the London venue. Joining forces with workspace…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2014
A re-telling of The Picture of Dorian Gray will form part of the National Youth Theatre's 2014 rep season, in which a company of 15 will perform three productions over 10 weeks in London's W…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PM[SHARE]Shobna Gulati and Joe McGann will star in a tour of John Godber's April in Paris. Godber will direct the production, which tours the UK this summer. It opens at Derby Theatre on June 27,R…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:37AM[SHARE]Monday, May 26, 2014
The Royal Ballet School has launched a new teachers' course, its first to offer a formally accredited qualification. Participants who complete the school's Diploma of Dance Teaching will be …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2014
A code of ethics is to be developed to improve the treatment of performers during the casting process. Equity member Lubna Kerr put forward a motion proposing that the council work with prof…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PM[SHARE]Arts Council England chief executive Alan Davey has said that ‘crossing geographical boundaries’ must be at the forefront of ACE's attention during its next set of funding decisi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:08PM[SHARE]Measures to tackle bullying in the industry, such as practical training courses and harassment education booklets, will be put in place as part of a plan to develop the existing Creating Wit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AM[SHARE]The Almeida's production of King Charles III will transfer to the West End this autumn. Mike Bartlett's play will run at Wyndham's Theatre from September 2 to November 9, with a press night …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The BBC and Arts Council England will face pressure to carry out and publish equality monitoring as part of a campaign to be developed by Equity. Speakers from the union's women's, LGBT, min…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AM[SHARE]Performers have voted to make 2015 the 'Year of the Fringe', during which actors and fringe theatres will work with Equity to "raise awareness of the artistic contribution" the sector makes …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Tobacco Factory Theatres has announced three more associate artists for 2014-2015, who will develop work with the Bristol-based organisation. Joel Daniel, The Paper Cinema and Wattle and Dau…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:24PM[SHARE]Monday, May 19, 2014
Suba Das will direct a new production of Abigail's Party at Leicester's Curve theatre, as part of the company's autumn/winter season. Curve's studio space will be converted into the round fo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:56AM[SHARE]The Muni Arts Centre in Pontypridd is to close as part of council budget cuts aimed at saving £70 million over the next four years. The arts centre, a converted church in the town's centr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2014
Ambassador Theatre Group and the National Theatre will be among the first organisations that will trial new technology, aimed at increasing access for deaf and hard of hearing audiences and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:31AM[SHARE]Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts has launched a new master's course in creative producing which will begin in September. The one-year course will be led by arts manager Chris Grady who has …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 15, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber's next musical could become his first in more than 40 years to open on Broadway ahead of the West End, with the composer claiming child licensing rules in the US are more…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AM[SHARE]Jack Ellis, William Gaunt and Adrian Schiller will join Richard Armitage in the cast of The Crucible, which will run at the Old Vic this summer. Ellis, who is best known for his role in̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2014
A derelict church in Ipswich is to be transformed into an arts centre that will host professional theatre productions and touring companies. St Clement's church has stood empty since 1979, b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:37AM[SHARE]The Felixstowe Spa Pavilion, which has been closed since January 2013, could be given a new lease of life after its local council revealed it had selected a preferred bidder to revive the ve…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber has ruled out reworking his musical Stephen Ward, following a disappointing run in the West End earlier this year. Speaking at the Royal College of Music where he was rec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Charlotte Rampling is to join the cast of Broadchurch when it returns for a second series. The film and television actress will join David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buc…
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