Tuesday, October 28, 2014
A last-ditch attempt to stave off West End strike action is to take place next week, when union BECTU and the Society of London Theatre meet at conciliation service ACAS. The two sides will …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2014
Michael Ball has announced a new tour for 2015. The musical theatre performer will begin his If Everyone Was Listening tour in Bournemouth on April 7, 2015, before playing in Oxford, Ipswich…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:43AM[SHARE]Model Jodie Kidd is to produce the world premiere of a musical about slavery next year. Yarico has music by James McConnell, lyrics by Paul Leigh and a book by Carl Miller. It will run…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2014
Two men charged with conspiring to defraud Leeds Grand Theatre out of thousands of pounds will enter pleas in January next year, with a provisional trial date set for June. Peter Alp, 52, fr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:19AM[SHARE]Jason Manford is to star in a new UK tour of musical The Producers. The show will open in March next year at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, before touring to venues including the Milton&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2014
A "living archive" featuring stories and photos from people connected with the reopening of Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds 50 years ago is to be created with a £65,200 grant from the Herit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PM[SHARE]Moira Sinclair, currently Arts Council England's executive director of London and the south-east, is leaving the organisation after nine years to lead grant-making body the Paul Hamlyn Found…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Penelope Wilton will return to the West End stage for the first time in five years when she appears in the London transfer of Taken at Midnight. The play, by Mark Hayhurst, is currently runn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PM[SHARE]Equity has hit out at plans to allow child performers to start work at 7am " an hour earlier than adults "Â and has called for more clarification on aspects of the government's plans to&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AM[SHARE]Coronation Street actor Wendi Peters has been cast in the UK tour of Oh What a Lovely War!. Directed by Terry Johnson, the show originally played at Theatre Royal Stratford East earlier this…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Union Equity is maintaining that four actors involved in a profit share production in 2012 should be paid the minimum wage, stating that it will make "fresh representations" to an employment…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PM[SHARE]West End theatres are being given 10 days to avoid strike action, following a ballot which saw BECTU members vote to reject a current pay offer. BECTU has been in talks with the Society of&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2014
Two men have been charged with conspiring to defraud the financially troubled Leeds Grand Theatre out of more than £178,000. Peter Alp, 54 from Kent, and Dean Oates, 45, from York, will a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AM[SHARE]York Theatre Royal has cancelled its forthcoming production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge to provide more time for a planned major refurbishment. The venue is scheduled to close …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 18, 2014
The West End production of The Play That Goes Wrong has extended its run to September next year. It is running at the Duchess Theatre, where it had originally been booking until February, an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2014
Comedy Potted Sherlock is to play at the Vaudeville Theatre from December. The show is written by Daniel Clarkson and Tom Clarkson, and stars Daniel Clarkson with Jefferson Turner and Lizzie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AM[SHARE]A director ordered by a tribunal to pay four actors the minimum wage for their performances in a profit share production has won an appeal against the decision. The Employment Appeal Tribuna…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:59AM[SHARE]Alexandra Burke is to star in the UK tour of The Bodyguard. Burke will play Rachel Marron, a role she previously played in the West End version. The tour begins at the Mayflower Theatre in&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AM[SHARE]Laura Pitt-Pulford and Michael French are to lead the cast of The Sound of Music at Leicester's Curve. The show, which will mark Paul Kerryson's last as artistic director at the venue, will …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AM[SHARE]Liverpool's Everyman Theatre has won the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize. The prize is considered the UK's most prestigious architecture award, and the Everyman " design…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
The value of partnerships among arts organisations is to be gauged as part of an enquiry being led by King's College London with the BBC. According to King's, the aim of the study is to̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AM[SHARE]Terry Johnson is lined up to direct a musical version of Mrs Henderson Presents, which will open at the Theatre Royal Bath next year. The show is based on the 2005 film of the same…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AM[SHARE]Curve artistic director Paul Kerryson is to be honoured for his outstanding contribution to theatre at this year's UK Theatre Awards. He will be presented with The Stage award for outstandin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AM[SHARE]The Lyric Hammersmith is to hold open auditions for its staging of Bugsy Malone, which will reopen the theatre following a multimillion pound redevelopment. The theatre will open in April ne…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:06AM[SHARE]Soho Theatre is facing an unlimited fine after an incident that left a stage manager paralysed. The accident occurred on June 9, 2012, when Rachael Presdee fell more than three metres throug…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Musical The Lion King will be licensed to schools from January next year. There will be two versions of the musical available " a 30-minute version for primary schools and 70-minute adaptati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AM[SHARE]The BBC's in-house drama department is to cut seven roles as part of a restructure to ensure that it is "on fire creatively". As part of the changes, three executive producer roles across th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
London fringe venue the Twickenham Theatre is to close just days after its first production " Sweeney Todd starring David Bedella " came to an end. The Twickenham Theatre has been told it ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:57AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
Musical Bugsy Malone is to receive its first professional staging in the UK for more than a decade, when it reopens the Lyric Hammersmith following a multi-million pound redevelopment. The t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AM[SHARE]The Old Vic's production of The Crucible starring Richard Armitage will be screened in cinemas around the UK in December. Arthur Miller's play, directed by Yael Farber, has been filmed by Di…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2014
Former Coronation Street actor Julie Hesmondhalgh has been cast alongside Sherlock cast member Amanda Abbington in a new play at the Royal Court. God Bless the Child, penned by Molly Davies,…
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