Thursday, February 12, 2015
A competition offering circus performers the chance to win £4,000 and the opportunity to create a new show with production company Underbelly has launched its 2015 talent search. Circus M…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:58AM[SHARE]Plans for a tour highlighting the work of British theatre designers have been thrown into doubt after Arts Council England rejected a £70,000 funding application. The Society of British T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
A play about fashion designer Alexander McQueen will receive its world premiere at the St James Theatre in May. McQueen is written by James Phillips and will be directed by John Caird. It ru…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Music venue Wigmore Hall is to undergo a £2 million refurbishment that will see the creation of new rehearsal spaces and enable the building to stream and broadcast its work. The London v…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2015
In a pub in west London, Harriet Walter is taking a break from rehearsing a new play called Boa and has just declared that she is the production's "self-elected Equity deputy". There don't a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM[SHARE]Antony Sher is to play King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2016, with new plays by Marina Carr and Helen Edmundson also announced as part of the theatre company's winter 2015 seas…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Shakespeare's Globe's production of The Duchess of Malfi starring Gemma Arterton will be broadcast to cinemas on February 26. The production is the first in the new season from Shakespeare's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM[SHARE]Theatre company Les Enfants Terribles is to stage an immersive production for children based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The production, titled Adventures in Wond…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2015
The National Theatre, Michael Grandage Company and the Donmar Warehouse have all been honoured at the Falstaff Awards, with Helen Mirren being presented a lifetime achievement award. Prod…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AM[SHARE]JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls is being adapted into a television drama starring David Thewlis. The play is being adapted for the screen by Helen Edmundson, who previously adapted Coram B…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AM[SHARE]Leicester Square Theatre and the Museum of Comedy in London have launched a competition aimed at finding the best comics over the age of 35. Called Old Comedian of the Year, the competition …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2015
Sonia Friedman Productions has appointed Donna Munday as executive producer. Munday is currently executive producer of Billy Elliot the Musical in Holland, a role she took following five yea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:43PM[SHARE]War Horse has extended its booking period in the West End until February next year. It had been booking at the New London Theatre until October but is now selling tickets until February 13, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PM[SHARE]Ghost Stories is to end its London run in March after almost 1,000 performances around the world. The show, written and directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, will close at the Arts The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AM[SHARE]New work made up more than half of all productions staged in 2013, according to research into the output of 273 venues around the UK. The British Theatre Consortium " a group of academics an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM[SHARE]Ian McKellen has been named best actor at the BBC Audio Drama Awards, which also saw performer Aisling Loftus and writer Neil Gaiman honoured. McKellen won for his role in Eugenie Grandet, d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2015
The managerial crisis at the top of English National Opera has deepened with the shock resignation of executive director Henriette Gotz less than a year after she was appointed in April 2014…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2015
Musical Thrill Me " The Leopold and Loeb Story, which ran in Edinburgh last year, is to embark on a UK tour. The production, directed by Guy Retallack, has a book, music and lyrics by…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PM[SHARE]West End musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has rewritten part of its script after a challenge from an audience member. London resident Nathalie Bristow complained about a line in the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:50AM[SHARE]Actors David Morrissey and Julie Walters are backing an Equity campaign aimed at ensuring performers are paid properly, with Morrissey claiming the "culture that exploits people's love of th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:29AM[SHARE]One in five people working in entertainment has actively sought help for mental health issues, new research has found. The survey, which was open to everyone in the sector and completed by m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Chichester Festival Theatre artistic director Jonathan Church has praised the producers of Taken at Midnight for taking a "chance" on bringing the play to the West End. He said new plays by …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Almost a half of all creative jobs are based in London or the south-east, despite the fact the areas account for just 28% of the national workforce, new research has revealed. The findings h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2015
Choreographer Akram Khan has picked up his sixth National Dance award, at a ceremony that also saw dancers Jonathan Goddard and Natalia Osipova win prizes. At today’s Critics’ Ci…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:04PM[SHARE]Elton John is launching a theatre production company that will have a strong emphasis on the creation of original musicals, including a new family show that will feature songs from his back …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 24, 2015
West End musical Made in Dagenham is to close in April after a run of five months. The show, at the Adelphi Theatre and starring Gemma Arterton, opened on November 5 and will close on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2015
A tour of the musical Copacabana planned for 2015 has been completely cancelled. As previously reported by The Stage, the 2014 leg of the musical, starring Jon Lee, was cancelled partway thr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:04PM[SHARE]Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts has dropped a £19 million plan to move into a grade II*-listed town hall in north London. The drama school had been working with Haringey Council to deve…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AM[SHARE]John Goodman and Tom Sturridge are to join Damian Lewis in American Buffalo in the West End. The play, by David Mamet and directed by Daniel Evans, will run at Wyndham's Theatre from April 1…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AM[SHARE]Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, starring David Suchet as Lady Bracknell, will open at the Vaudeville Theatre in July. The production is directed by Adrian Noble and will play …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AM[SHARE]Bradley Cooper is to star in a West End transfer of The Elephant Man. The play, directed by Scott Ellis and currently running on Broadway, will open at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London …
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