Thursday, December 18, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AM[SHARE]Repertory theatre will return to the Theatre Royal Windsor for the first time in 25 years with a season of six plays, including Daphne du Maurier's September Tide and Noel Coward's Hay Fever…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will end its West End run on March 7 next year. The musical will then tour the UK, as well as Australia, South Korea and Germany. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, written by …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:29PM[SHARE]Musical The Goodbye Girl is to have its first London revival since running in the West End in 1997. The show, which has a book by Neil Simon, music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2014
Spend on first-run UK-originated drama programmes by the main public service broadcast channels fell by 34% over the five years from 2008 to 2013. According to media regulator Ofcom's annual…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AM[SHARE]Culture secretary Sajid Javid has defended freedom of speech within the arts, labelling cultural boycotts as "needlessly divisive". He described protests that result in productions being pul…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2014
A beleaguered tour of Barry Manilow musical Copacabana has hit further problems, with Croydon's Fairfield Halls cancelling planned dates in 2015. The Stage previously reported that the tour,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:45AM[SHARE]Indhu Rubasingham will direct the world premiere of a play by actor John Hollingworth as part of the Tricycle Theatre's 2015 season. The theatre will also stage The Father, starring Kenneth …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2014
Stage manager Rachael Presdee, who was left paralysed after an accident at the Soho Theatre in 2012, has been awarded £3.7 million in compensation. The money was secured by union Equity, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Arts and Minds, a joint industry initiative aimed at raising the awareness of mental wellbeing in the entertainment sector, has launched a survey to identify the "areas of stress" for people…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AM[SHARE]English Touring Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton are among 32 arts organisations that will host fellowships " to support creatives ranging from choreographers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Ghost Stories has extended its run at the Arts Theatre until March next year. The show, written by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson, who also direct with Sean Holmes, had been booking until Janua…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2014
Playwrights Alan Ayckbourn and Arnold Wesker have joined performers including Judi Dench and Christopher Biggins in calling for Brighton Hippodrome to be retained as a theatre. They are amon…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AM[SHARE]Gods and Monsters, a stage adaptation of Christopher Bram's novel Father of Frankenstein, will receive its world premiere at the Southwark Playhouse next year. The book has been adapted by R…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:37AM[SHARE]West End show The Play That Goes Wrong has recouped its £250,000 production costs in 12 weeks, its producers have claimed. The show, produced by Kenny Wax and Stage Presence, opened at th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2014
US performers Nic Rouleau and Brian Sears are joining the West End production of The Book of Mormon. They will take over as Elder Price and Elder Cunningham respectively from February 2 next…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AM[SHARE]Miss Saigon has picked up 12 nominations for this year's Whatsonstage Awards, including in the best musical revival category and best actor and actress sections. Alistair Brammer is nominate…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:44AM[SHARE]Maxine Peake has been cast in Zinnie Harris' How to Hold Your Breath at the Royal Court. It will be directed by Royal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone and opens at the Jerwood Thea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:40AM[SHARE]Marti Pellow is to star as the Narrator in a tour of musical Blood Brothers next year. He will be joined by Maureen Nolan as Mrs Johnstone. Both Pellow and Johnstone have played the roles…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2014
Performers are more likely to work over the age of 40 on television and radio than in theatre, but the live sector is more diverse in terms of the ethnicity of actors it employs. These…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2014
A staging of musical Saturday Night Fever was cancelled in Liverpool on its first night due to "technical faults". The musical is currently touring the UK and is at the Liverpool Empire unti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Sky Atlantic drama The Tunnel, Sky1's The Smoke, BBC2's Rev and Channel 4's Utopia were multiple winners at the Royal Television Society's Craft and Design Awards. The Tunnel won for Adrian …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2014
Lyric Theatre, London: It takes a special show to hold an audience of young children captivated, but physical theatre company Tall Stories succeeds with its inventive stage adaptation of Jul…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PM[SHARE]Around 50% of stunt performers working in television and film have experienced bullying, with 47% claiming sexual harassment is common in the sector. The statistics are the findings of a sur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:44AM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2014
Leicester Square Theatre artistic director Martin Witts and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art principal Joanna Read have been honoured for their support of new writing. Witts and Read…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AM[SHARE]Commercial radio station Magic has become the new radio broadcast partner of the Olivier Awards, bringing to an end the ceremony's relationship with the BBC. The awards were broadcast by Rad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 27, 2014
More than 100 previously unseen letters written by playwright Harold Pinter " in which he discusses works such as The Birthday Party " have been acquired by the British Library. The letters …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:52AM[SHARE]Leading arts organisations including the National Theatre are backing a new membership body representing the creative industries, which is aimed at giving the sector a "stronger and more …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:58AM[SHARE]Simon Russell Beale, John Hurt and Lesley Manville have been cast in an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace for BBC Radio 4, which will be played out over 10 hours on New Year's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AM[SHARE]Nicholas Hytner is to chair the judging panel for the 2015 Bruntwood Prize, which also includes playwright Bryony Lavery and actor Meera Syal. Other judges for the prize, which marks its 10t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:45AM[SHARE]Performers who graduated from drama school in 2013 took 30% fewer jobs in the fringe sector compared with the previous year. Industry figures claim the drop demonstrates "savvy" performers a…
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