Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Performers Benny Young and Olwen Fouere have been announced as the winners of the first round of The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Young was recognised…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:39AM[SHARE]Wimbledon Studios Ltd, the company behind the TV studios where series such as the BBC comedy Episodes is filmed, has gone into administration. The company operates three film and television …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
Disgraced producer Paul Coxwell was today jailed for 39 months after pleading guilty to four charges, including fraud and breaching an order preventing him from being a company director. Bel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PM[SHARE]Former Coronation Street actor Charlie Condou is to lead the cast of comedy drama Next Fall, which gets its UK premiere at the Southwark Playhouse in September. The show will be directed …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:15AM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2014
The West End production of The Lion King has now been seen by more than 12 million people, producers have claimed. According to Disney Theatrical Productions, which produces the musical, its…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AM[SHARE]Musical comedy Altar Boyz will make its UK premiere at the Greenwich Theatre in October. The show will be directed by Steven Dexter, who was behind Loserville in the West End. It is being pr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AM[SHARE]London Theatre Report, the industry’s first major study into the size and scope of London Theatre, was published earlier this week. The report found that around £620 million is s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2014
Canterbury's Marlowe Theatre is set to become a producing house for the first time, with a focus on new writing. For its first production " the British premiere of a new play that has yet…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PM[SHARE]West Yorkshire Playhouse artistic director James Brining has defended the right of regional theatre to stage plays that are also being produced in London, claiming venues should not operate …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AM[SHARE]Okay, okay " I know it's called Hemley on TV. But anyone who knows me will know I also have a (pretty big) passion for musical theatre, so this week's column sees me break from…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AM[SHARE]Martin Green, who was head of ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics in London, has been appointed chief executive of Hull: UK City of Culture. The appointment has been described as a "major coup"…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM[SHARE]Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall has urged MPs and future governments to protect funding for theatre, claiming that the industry's grassroots need particular safeguarding. The writer, whose adap…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Betty Blue Eyes creators George Stiles and Anthony Drewe have warned writers and producers of original musicals not to place too much emphasis on a show's production values, claiming the his…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2014
An awards ceremony dedicated entirely to classical theatre " which its organisers claim will be the first of its kind in the UK " will be launched in September. Created by theatre company Ow…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:13AM[SHARE]Bakersfield Mist starring Kathleen Turner is to close three weeks earlier than planned, with producers blaming poor ticket sales among tourists. The show will close on August 9, instead of i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AM[SHARE]Louise Dearman is to perform at a celebration of the work of Marvin Hamlisch, produced by the team behind the recent staging of Putting It Together at the St James Theatre. The Music of the&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AM[SHARE]Around £620 million was spent on London theatre tickets in 2012/13 by more than 22 million people, according to a major new report. The findings are included in London Theatre Report, whi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group is suing the promoter of the cancelled US tour of Jesus Christ Superstar in a bid to recover costs. The musical was due to begin touring the US in&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2014
The London premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole starring Joanne Froggatt has been postponed, with its producers blaming scheduling issues. Rabbit Hole had been due to open on Septe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM[SHARE]Forbidden Broadway, currently running at the Menier Chocolate Factory, is to transfer to the West End. The show will move to the Vaudeville Theatre on September 9, and run until November 22,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2014
Bruce Forsyth is to front a new BBC variety show, which will see singers and comics pay tribute to people who inspired their own careers. Forsyth's presenting role will be his first since an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tonight, the next episode of The Honourable Woman is on BBC2. I'll be watching it. Others will claim to – and yet, they won't actually be watching. Confused? Let me explain. I say I…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AM[SHARE]Previously unpublished letters written by My Fair Lady lyricist Alan Jay Lerner just three months before his death in 1986 reveal his "desolation" at having to pull out of working on Andrew …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:45AM[SHARE]Producer Bill Kenwright has blamed a "get rich quick" mentality among inexperienced producers for the number of shows and tours that are leaving performers unpaid. His comments come as a tou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Of Mice and Men, starring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd, is to become the first Broadway production to be broadcast as part of National Theatre Live. Also starring Leighton Meester and Jim N…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:33PM[SHARE]A Taste of Honey playwright Shelagh Delaney is to be celebrated with an annual day named in her honour. Shelagh Delaney Day will take place on November 25 in Salford, where she was born, wit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AM[SHARE]David Bedella is to star as Sweeney in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at new venue Twickenham Theatre from September. Bedella, who won an Olivier award in 2004 for Jerry Springer the Opera,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Ian McKellen has claimed actors are having to turn down roles because of the poor pay they are offered, and has called for a living wage to be implemented for performers. McKellen said that …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47PM[SHARE]Screenwriters Andrew Davies and Lucy Gannon are to judge the second Wales Drama Award, a £10,000 prize for writers aimed at finding new talent for theatre and television. The biennial awa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:56AM[SHARE]Comedian Kev Orkian is to lead the cast of David Baddiel's musical The Infidel. Based on the film of the same name, the musical will open at Theatre Royal Stratford East in October. It will&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:52AM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2014
Bonnie Langford, Joe Pasquale and Todd Carty are to star in a UK tour of the Monty Python musical Spamalot. The musical will tour from January 15, 2015, when it opens at the Manchester Opera…
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