Saturday, May 9, 2015
Dates have been set for two days of strikes at Shakespeare's Globe. Tour guides working at the venue will strike on May
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2015
Charity the BBC Performing Arts Fund is to close after 13 years. Since being created in 2003, it has funded a range
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:16AM[SHARE]A Conservative government will result in "theatres going dark and companies going out of business", the Writers' Guild of Great Britain has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2015
Polly Hill is to replace Ben Stephenson as controller of BBC drama commissioning. In her current role as head of independent drama
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:30PM[SHARE]A musical featuring the songs of Hoagy Carmichael is to have its world premiere at the St James Theatre in London. Stardust
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AM[SHARE]London's Royal Court and Southampton's Nuffield Theatre are among the four venues participating in this year's Linbury Prize. The biennial award, founded
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Songs cut from the original production of My Fair Lady are to be performed for the first time in almost 60 years.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PM[SHARE]Casts from Mamma Mia!, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Sunny Afternoon will perform as part of this year's West End Live.
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Opera North and West Yorkshire Playhouse are to collaborate on a new production of Into the Woods. The Stephen Sondheim musical will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2015
Opera is to be toured to theatres around the UK by a new production company that aims to bring more diverse audiences
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AM[SHARE]Shakespeare's Globe has appointed Emma Rice as its new artistic director. Rice, currently joint artistic director of theatre company Kneehigh, replaces Dominic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AM[SHARE]Derek Jacobi will play Mercutio in Kenneth Branagh's production of Romeo and Juliet. He joins the previously announced Lily James, who plays
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2015
A magic show described as the biggest of its kind for decades will run at the Noel Coward Theatre this summer. Impossible
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:17PM[SHARE]Composer Emily Hall will write a site-specific opera to be performed at the Corinthia Hotel in London after winning its artist-in-residence competition.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AM[SHARE]Peter Bowles is to star in the world premiere of a new comedy called Stop!…The Play. The production, written by David Spicer,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AM[SHARE]Shakespeare's Globe has launched a free app that will allow fans to explore the theatre wherever they are in the world. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
West End musical Gypsy starring Imelda Staunton has broken box office records at the Savoy Theatre. The show took £408,300 for the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:20PM[SHARE]Sky is to close one of its arts channels and launch an on-demand offering instead. From June, Sky Arts 2, primarily an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AM[SHARE]Tour guides working for Shakespeare's Globe are to strike after talks to resolve an ongoing pay dispute broke down. BECTU and Shakespeare's
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:21AM[SHARE]Actor Paterson Joseph will join director Paulette Randall and Theatre Royal Stratford East artistic director Kerry Michael at a one-day conference discussing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2015
UK productions dominate the play categories for this year's Tony Awards, with the The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AM[SHARE]Comedians, including Sara Pascoe, have formed the Equity Comedians' Network to lobby for better conditions in the sector. The performers, all members
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2015
Drama writers working for ITV are to benefit from a 5% increase to their minimum rates of pay. The increases are the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2015
Musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is to tour the UK from December. The production opens at the West Yorkshire Playhouse on December
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
Bryn Terfel is to star in a concert production of Fiddler on the Roof as part of this year's BBC Proms. This
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AM[SHARE]West End musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is to close on May 23, three months earlier than planned.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AM[SHARE]A world premiere from Paines Plough will be staged at this year's Latitude Festival, with Kneehigh, Sadler's Wells and Clean Break also
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Industry leaders including Richard Eyre have hailed Tessa Ross' decision to step down as chief executive of the National Theatre, claiming the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
A UK tour of Anything Goes is to close four months early, with its producer blaming the "unpredictable" touring market. The show,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PM[SHARE]Samuel West has claimed a culture of low and unpaid work in the arts is stifling diversity and "building a time bomb"
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:34AM[SHARE]New productions from Benedict Andrews and Daniel Kramer will feature as part of English National Opera's 2015/16 season. Kramer will direct Wagner's
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