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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AM[SHARE]A new musical based on Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ will receive its world premiere at Curve in Leicester, following a workshop last year. The musical is writt…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Touring theatre companies Dark Horse and Theatre Sans Frontieres have warned that 100% cuts to their funding from Arts Council England will prevent them from continuing to take work around t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AM[SHARE]The Charing Cross Theatre has denied claims it is to replace paid front of house staff with volunteers. Reports on Twitter said the theatre in London had written to ushers at the venue to in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:23PM[SHARE]Playwright Edward Bond has criticised Arts Council England's decision to axe its entire funding for theatre in education company Big Brum, labelling the cut an "immeasurable debt that societ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PM[SHARE]Niamh Cusack is to star in Juno and the Paycock at the Bristol Old Vic, as part of the venue's winter season. Sean O'Casey's play will be directed by Gemma Bodinetz and is a co-production…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:52AM[SHARE]A sequel to musical Dreamboats and Petticoats, called Dreamboats and Miniskirts, will open at the Theatre Royal in Windsor this summer. Produced by Bill Kenwright and Laurie Mansfield, the m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AM[SHARE]Campaigns have been launched to save theatre companies Propeller and Red Ladder, both of which were hit with 100% cuts to their funding from Arts Council England this week. A petition callin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AM[SHARE]Partnerships between 10 theatre makers and venues have been announced as part of a new initiative aimed at helping contemporary theatre "thrive" and developing audiences. The projects, which…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]The National Theatre of Wales has teamed up with arts festival Green Man to stage a site-specific production this summer. Called Green Man/Red Woman, the show has been created by Gerald Tyle…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]This week I attended the launch of Act for Change, a campaign aimed at increasing diversity on television and in the arts. It came about after an advert for ITV's drama output failed to i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PM[SHARE]Pantomime producer Paul Holman Associates has expanded its operations by joining with children's theatre company Premier Stage Productions, in a move that will see the two organisations work…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:37AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal Stratford East is bringing back its production of Oh What a Lovely War as part of its forthcoming season, which will also include a new version of Antigone by Roy Williams a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM[SHARE]A third of adults who watch television feel programming has got worse in the last year, with repeats and "lack of variety" to blame. According to a report by media regulator Ofcom looking at…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AM[SHARE]Musical Urinetown, which ran at the St James Theatre from February this year, is to transfer to the West End's Apollo Theatre. It replaces Let the Right One In when it plays at the venueR…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PM[SHARE]Edward Hall, artistic director of all-male theatre company Propeller, has warned that the venue's future is at risk following Arts Council England's 100% cut to its funding. The company curr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PM[SHARE]Despite the companies facing reductions, many organisations have joined the national portfolio funded by Arts Council England for the first time. New NPOs are listed below, with their total …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AM[SHARE]Red Ladder Theatre Company has become one of the high-profile casualties in the latest round of funding from Arts Council England. Currently it receives around £160,000 annually. From 201…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds currently receives £120,000 each year as a national portfolio organisation. However, from 2015 it will stop being an NPO, with its arts council funding reduc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AM[SHARE]In his first day as artistic director at the Orange Tree Theatre in west London, Paul Miller is dealing with a 100% cut to the venue's funding from Arts Council England. In 2014/15, it recei…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AM[SHARE]Red Ladder Theatre Company, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and the Orange Tree Theatre are among the high profile casualties of Arts Council England's latest round of national portfolio fundi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AM[SHARE]West London fringe venue the Bush Theatre has revealed increased turnover of £2.56 million in 2013/14, a year that also saw 50% of its main stage shows written by people from a black, Asi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:19PM[SHARE]Broadcasters are under pressure to introduce quotas aimed at increasing diversity on screen, as part of a major campaign backed by actors, writers and directors, including Meera Syal, Stephe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PM[SHARE]Imaginate, the Scottish organisation which promotes theatre for young people, has announced two new commissions for 2015. The commissions are funded by the Scottish Government’s Edinbu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AM[SHARE]Leading BBC dramas such as The Fall are failing to cast actors from the areas in which they are set, with parts for local actors reduced to a "cough and a spit", Equity has claimed….
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:19AM[SHARE]Watford Palace Theare's autumn season will include two world premieres, including a new play from Goodnight Sweetheart and Birds of a Feather creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Called…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats is to return to the West End following a 12-year absence, with a run from December at the London Palladium. Cats is directed by Trevor Nunn, with Gillian Lynne …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AM[SHARE]Brendan O'Carroll thinks critics are irrelevant. In case you don't know who he is, O'Carroll is the man who dresses up as Mrs Brown in the BBC comedy Mrs Brown's Boys " all in the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AM[SHARE]Hampstead Theatre's production of The Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon is to transfer to the West End. It will open at the Harold Pinter Theatre on October 4, with press night on October 28. Th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sam Walters, the UK's longest serving artistic director, has criticised politicians' "constant disparagement of white, middle-class" theatregoers, arguing venues would be "much the emptier" …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Nikolai Foster is to become the new artistic director at Curve in Leicester, and plans to turn the venue into the home of new musical theatre writing in the UK. Foster, whose credits include…
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