The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a new partnership with leading video producer and distributor Opus Arte to release recordings of productions featured in its Live from Stratford-u…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AM[SHARE]Lenny Henry wants to see the BBC ring-fence money to produce content that makes better use of talent from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background. In a speech given this week at BAFTA, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM[SHARE]Julie Atherton, Jenna Russell, Janie Dee, David Bedella and Douglas Hodge are lined up to appear as part of this year's London Festival of Cabaret. As previously reported by The Stage, the 2…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AM[SHARE]BBC Radio 4 is to broadcast a spin-off of the popular television drama Silk, with actors including Neil Stuke and Miranda Raison reprising their roles from the BBC1 series. Silk: The Clerks'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:15AM[SHARE]Actors and writers are demanding urgent talks with BBC Wales and Welsh broadcaster S4C over plans to cut episodes of the long-running TV soap Pobol y Cwm. Both Equity and the Writers' Guild …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Thriller Live has extended its West End run until April next year. The show, at the Lyric Theatre in London, opened in 2009 and is now booking until April 19, 2015. It was previously booking…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:04PM[SHARE]West End musical Matilda is to hold a relaxed performance in June, aimed at people with autism and learning difficulties. The Royal Shakespeare Company, which produces the show at the Cambri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PM[SHARE]The BBC is to revive its Comedy Playhouse strand " which discovered sitcoms such as Steptoe and Son and Last of the Summer Wine " with a new season of one-off comedies featuring actors inclu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:10AM[SHARE]West End musical The Commitments has extended its run at the Palace Theatre to April 2015. The show, directed by Jamie Lloyd, opened in October last year and will now run until April 19, 201…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AM[SHARE]Olivia Colman has won the best actress prize at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards for the second year running. Colman took the award for her work on Channel 4's Run and ITV's Bro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AM[SHARE]The Full Monty writer Simon Beaufoy has hit out at the show's producer, claiming he did not come to the production or talk to the cast and crew ahead of the announcement that the play…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:19PM[SHARE]Lenny Henry has called on the BBC to ring-fence money for TV programmes where at least 50% of the production teams and casts are black, Asian or minority ethnic. In a speech delivered at BAF…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AM[SHARE]A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to help fund a new musical based on David Baddiel's film The Infidel. The musical has words and lyrics by Baddiel and music by Erran Baron Cohen. It…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:27AM[SHARE]Ken Dodd has beaten fellow comics Jasper Carrott, Lenny Henry, Nicholas Parsons, Jennifer Saunders and Victoria Wood to be crowned Legend of Comedy. The comic was awarded the title as part o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]Performances at Derby's Assembly Rooms have been cancelled up to and including May 11 following a fire at the venue on Friday. The fire was in the plant room on the roof of the building's...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:07PM[SHARE]A new musical based on Oscar Wilde's De Profundis will premiere at the Leicester Square Theatre in May after winning the venue's inaugural New Musical Project competition. The show is writte…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM[SHARE]Writers Chris Bush and Matthew Winkworth have won the inaugural Perfect Pitch award, which sees them awarded £12,000 to complete a full draft of a new musical and receive mentorship from …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:24PM[SHARE]A producer who left performers unpaid for a Glenn Miller musical that toured the UK in 2013 has been criticised for remounting the same show with a new cast this year. Bugle Boy was cancelle…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AM[SHARE]DC Moore, whose playwriting credits include The Empire for the Royal Court, has penned a comedy drama for Channel 4 called Cut. The six-part series explores the lives of a group of civil ser…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12PM[SHARE]When ITV starts broadcasting new drama The Widower on Monday, viewers will be watching a series based on real (and harrowing) events. The drama, starring Reece Shearsmith, is about convicted…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PM[SHARE]Broadway musical Memphis will open at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London this October, starring Beverley Knight. Knight, who is currently leading the cast of The Bodyguard in the West End, wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AM[SHARE]Fame Forever, a sequel to the popular stage musical Fame, is to receive its professional world premiere with a fully staged West End performance and a UK tour. Composed by Steve Margoshes, w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Emerging comedy writers are able to access advice on how to write for the genre in a special ebook published by the BBC. Called Writing for Radio Comedy, the book features clips, videos and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:15PM[SHARE]West End stars Louise Dearman and Willemijn Verkaik are to join former Steps star Faye Tozer for a charity concert next month. The event is called Wow, Here Come the Girls and will run at...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AM[SHARE]Jamie Lloyd has revealed plans for a second season of plays at the Trafalgar Studios, London. The director said the new season of Trafalgar Transformed " running for a year from this summer …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AM[SHARE]Charity Stage One has awarded £50,000 from its Start-up Investment Fund to emerging producer Stephen McGill. The money will be used by McGill to co-produce the West End transfer of Chiche…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:29PM[SHARE]Queen musical We Will Rock You is to close in the West End after 12 years. The musical, written by Ben Elton, will end its run at the Dominion Theatre on May 31 after 4,600...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AM[SHARE]Channel 4's quota for producing television in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is to be tripled, resulting in a £12 million increase in the broadcaster's spend in the nations. Media r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AM[SHARE]I'm gay, and I happen to like musicals. But " and this might be hard to believe " not all gay men do. My partner doesn't like them, for example, and would probably rather go...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]Reece Shearsmith, who starred in the West End production of Betty Blue Eyes, has claimed the musical's title and marketing were to blame for its early closure. The actor appeared in the show…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Dawn French is to reprise her role as Geraldine Granger from The Vicar of Dibley as part of a special BBC Radio 4 event that will see popular characters "invade the station and take over...
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