Friday, January 23, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2015
Musicians involved in last year's failed Copacabana tour have become the latest group to launch legal proceedings against the show's production company in a bid to reclaim money owed to them…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Kay Mellor, who penned the play A Passionate Woman and the television series Fat Friends and The Syndicate, has been honoured for her outstanding contribution to writing. She was recognised …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AM[SHARE]Monday, January 19, 2015
Stephen Mangan is to reprise his role from the 2012 Royal Court production of Joe Penhall's Birthday, in a new television version of the play. The drama will be directed by Roger Michell, wh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
Theatre Ad Infinitum will stage the London premiere of its production of Odyssey as part of the Vault festival. The theatre company's one-man show will run from February 18 to March 1 and st…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AM[SHARE]Hedda Beeby is to step down as artistic and executive director of the Watermill Theatre in Newbury after seven years. She became artistic director in 2007 will leave at the end of the year, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:54AM[SHARE]Ambassador Theatre Group has appointed Birmingham Hippodrome chief executive Stuart Griffiths as its first programming director. The theatre company said the appointment was part of its cont…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:33AM[SHARE]Christine Baranski, Russell Watson and Ruthie Henshall are to star in a concert production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies. The production will be staged at the Royal Albert Hall on Ap…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
Darcey Bussell has urged emerging dancers to enter as many competitions as they can, claiming they offer exposure and test a performer's desire to work in the profession. Bussell was speakin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:07AM[SHARE]Former Hollyoaks actor Gerard McCarthy is to star as a fired member of the musical Cats in a staging of the one-man show Cat. The production, written by Richard Hardwick and Jamie Beamish, w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AM[SHARE]Ann Emery, who last week announced her retirement from the musical Billy Elliot after 10 years, has revealed a bad back forced her to leave the production sooner than she would have liked. T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:45AM[SHARE]Actors from last year's failed tour of the musical Copacabana are mounting legal action against the show's producers for more than £30,000 in unpaid wages. The news comes as it has emerge…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Roy Williams' Antigone is to play at the Theatre Royal Stratford East following a tour of the UK. The show is a co-production between Pilot Theatre, Derby Theatre and TRSE and will run at th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AM[SHARE]A documentary exploring the work of dance company BalletBoyz is to feature in a year-long season of arts programming on the BBC. The Year of Song and Dance season also includes programmes lo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:55AM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
Channel 4 has outlined new commissioning guidelines aimed at increasing diversity on screen, which will ensure that at least one of the lead characters in every of its scripted programmes is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:39AM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2015
Amanda Britton has been named new principal and artistic director of the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Britton is currently deputy principal and head of undergraduate acad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PM[SHARE]Meryl Streep, who stars in the film adaptation of Into the Woods, joins Catherine Tate and Imelda Staunton in discussing performing the works of Stephen Sondheim. Tate is currently in Assass…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wicked producer Marc Platt has defended the show's former star Idina Menzel, after the actor was criticised for missing notes during a performance on New Year's Eve. Menzel was singing Let I…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:04AM[SHARE]Rupert Goold has said more needs to be done by the industry to enable critics to review shows in the regions, claiming this will help emerging directors build profiles. Without this, he said…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AM[SHARE]Regional venues the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and the Salisbury Playhouse have disputed the low fees attributed to them in a new report on directors' pay. In Stage Directors' UK's rec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Ann Emery has retired from playing the role of Grandma in the musical of Billy Elliot after 10 years. Emery originated the role in 2005, and will now be replaced by Gillian Elisa. Elisa has&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Claire Sweeney is to host her own musical theatre-themed radio show on Magic. The radio station, which is now available nationally throughout the UK on Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), will…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:44AM[SHARE]Friday, January 2, 2015
Sonia Friedman and Danielle Tarento will battle it out for producer of the year at The Stage Awards 2015, which also sees the Liverpool Everyman, London's Young Vic and Leicester's Curve pic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:07AM[SHARE]Monday, December 22, 2014
Glenn Carter is to star as Jesus in a UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar, which will also feature Rhydian Roberts as Pontius Pilate. The production opens at the Churchil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:19PM[SHARE]Industry body UK Theatre is working with unions Equity, BECTU and the Musicians' Union on a joint initiative to overhaul its existing collective agreements for performers, backstage staf…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AM[SHARE]Planned funding cuts to local councils in England could see arts provision "damaged irrevocably", Equity has warned. The government announced last week that local authorities will f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2014
Pantomime is to be put under the spotlight in a new BBC documentary that goes behind the scenes of an amateur company's production in Nottingham. Panto!, produced by documentary maker Jeanie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PM[SHARE]Jerry's Girls, a musical revue celebrating the songs of Jerry Herman, is to have a two week run at the St James Theatre. The show features songs from shows such as Mame, Hello, Dolly! and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PM[SHARE]John Browne is to replace Chris Smith as chair of the Donmar Warehouse's board. He will work alongside artistic director Josie Rourke and executive producer Kate Pakenham, and takes up the p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2014
West End musical The Commitments has extended its run at the Palace Theatre to September next year. It had previously been booking until April, but will now run until September 13. Producer …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AM[SHARE]Vault Festival, which returns in January for a six-week run in tunnels near Waterloo in London, has added a programme of work aimed at young people. Mini Vault, for children under 11, will c…
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