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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2014
The Shubert Organization, Broadway's largest theatre owner with 17 houses, is poised to become a major player in the commercial Off-Broadway world. According to a report in the New York Time…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:27PM[SHARE]Former Southampton Football Club players Matthew Le Tissier and Francis Benali will appear in Nuffield Theatre's production of The Saints. The pair are making their acting debuts in the show…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM[SHARE]Ghost Stories, written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, has extended its run at the Arts Theatre in London until January next year. The show had been booking until August, but is now running …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]Chichester Festival Theatre has reopened following a £22 million redevelopment project, which has seen the venue benefit from larger foyer areas, a refurbished auditorium and improved acc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AM[SHARE]Productions from the Edinburgh fringe " including a one-man show from Steven Berkoff " are to be broadcast live to Odeon cinemas. The cinema chain has teamed up with online arts service Hibr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2014
According to Maggie Gyllenhall, the UK is the place to live if you want to act. In a recent interview with The Stage, she said: If you're an actor and you speak English you should…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AM[SHARE]West End director Marianne Elliott has claimed 'terrible' levels of pay are preventing women with children from pursuing careers in directing. Elliott, who is behind War Horse and The Curiou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Students from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background made up around one in eight of those who enrolled on acting courses at drama schools around the UK last year, new data has revealed…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2014
A new trailer for Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Miss Saigon has been released. Watch it in full below. The Boublil and Schonberg show is currently playing at the Prince Edward The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AM[SHARE]The BBC has vowed to increase the number of disabled people featured on screen fourfold by 2017, as part of a major new plan unveiled by the Corporation today. Director general Tony Hall sai…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AM[SHARE]West End productions Love Never Dies, The Lion King and Les Miserables are among shows that have provided the inspiration for an art exhibition opening in London next month. Called TheatreAr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AM[SHARE]Re-elected Equity president Malcolm Sinclair has vowed to tackle low and unpaid work in the sector over the next two years, claiming that the issue is now as bad as it was in the 1960s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2014
The musical of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho will make its American debut in February 2015 at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. It received its world premiere at the Almeida Theatre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PM[SHARE]Cast members from the West End productions of Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera will take to the football pitch next month, for the third Les Mis V Phantom charity match. The game&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:49AM[SHARE]The West End production of Skylight has recouped its capitalization costs in its fifth week since opening. According to the show's producers " who have not disclosed what the costs were " th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM[SHARE]Kerry Ellis is to reprise the role of Elphaba in the West End production of Wicked from August. The performer was the first British Elphaba in the London production, when she replaced Idina …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2014
US performers Billy Harrigan Tighe and A J Holmes are to join the cast of The Book of Mormon in the West End, replacing Gavin Creel and Jared Gertner. Creel and Gertner have played ElderR…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:47AM[SHARE]Further casting has been announced for the UK tour of Jersey Boys, starring Tim Driesen as Frankie Valli. Joining Driesen will be Stephen Webb as Tommy DeVito, Sam Ferriday as Bob Gaudio and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2014
Theatres and arts organisations currently funded as part of Arts Council England's national portfolio now raise more than half of their income from ticket sales, educational work and caterin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PM[SHARE]A touring production of Glenn Miller musical Bugle Boy has collapsed for the third time in as many years, leaving doubt over thousands of pounds due to the show's 16 performers and musicians…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AM[SHARE]Jenna Russell and Jonathan Slinger will reprise their roles in Urinetown when the show transfers to the West End later this year. However, Richard Fleeshman " who led the cast as Bobby Stron…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2014
ITV drama series Downton Abbey has been nominated for 12 Emmy awards, with actors Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter and Joanne Froggatt all up for awards. Nominations for the US pri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:58AM[SHARE]I Can't Sing! director Sean Foley has claimed the musical would have found an audience and run for longer if it had been produced in the subsidised sector. Speaking to The Stage for the firs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM[SHARE]BBC director general Tony Hall has unveiled plans to allow the Corporation's in-house production teams to make content for rival broadcasters, as part of a shake-up he has described as a "co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AM[SHARE]Performers and musicians left unpaid following their work on a West End production stand to lose thousands of pounds, after the production company behind the show went into liquidation. Movi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Malcolm Sinclair has been re-elected as Equity president for a third term. Sinclair received 2,411 votes, with fellow candidates Jean Rogers and Dave Eager picking up 1,748 and 387 respectiv…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PM[SHARE]A Liverpool theatre company has been made homeless after the theatre in which it was based was sold to developers. English Rice Productions has been running the 80-seat Liverpool Actors Stud…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:09AM[SHARE]War Horse director Marianne Elliott has defended the National Theatre's decision to axe five musicians from the show. Speaking to The Stage for the first time about the issue, Elliott said t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 8, 2014
BBC Comedy has hired Ben Farrell as an executive producer. Farrell joins the in-house department from Objective Productions, where he is currently head of comedy, a role he has had since 200…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AM[SHARE]Critics from the national press should be more supportive of new British musical theatre productions if the genre is to survive, Curve chief executive Fiona Allan has warned. The Leicester t…
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