Bonnie Langford is to return to the West End musical Spamalot, with former Any Dream Will Do contestant Daniel Boys also set to join the cast. Fresh from appearing on ITV's Dancing on Ice, L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47PM[SHARE]Elaine Paige is to front a new musical theatre-themed chat show in which talent such as Scarlett Strallen, Clive Rowe and Leigh Zimmerman will discuss their careers and perform. The six-part…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]A new touring play is seeking to address concerns about the lack of roles for older performers, with its cast predominantly made up of actors over the age of 60. Home Sweet Home, by Emma...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AM[SHARE]Producers of the Mamma Mia! international tour have extended the musical's run in Blackpool by two weeks. The show had been due to run at the Blackpool Opera House from June 20 to August 31.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:17AM[SHARE]While writing a story for The Stage's website this week, I found myself using the words "best known for" when referencing a particular actor who has been cast in a West End play. It made...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]Actor Jill Halfpenny has revealed she "purposefully" avoided doing a musical for the first 10 years of her career for fear of being typecast. Halfpenny has appeared in musicals including Chi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Let the Right One In playwright Jack Thorne has warned that arts cuts will lead to the theatre world becoming "smaller and smaller", with only wealthier people able to be part of the industr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Tim Rice's career as a songwriter will be marked with a special show to be held at the Royal Festival Hall in London this summer. The show will be hosted by Michael Grade and will...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AM[SHARE]Actors left £87,000 out of pocket by a failed audiobook company have received the money owed to them, following intervention from Equity. Performers on 97 audiobook titles were owed money…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AM[SHARE]Mackenzie Crook has penned a new comedy for BBC4 which he will also star in and direct. The comedy is one of four new shows announced by BBC4, which has also commissioned a programme from...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AM[SHARE]When The Stage's MAtthew Hemley accepted a cameo in a touring musical he couldn't wait to get started. But finding a 50s outfit and tackling an American accent proved to be a bit more diffic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AM[SHARE]A musical based on the 1985 film Back to the Future will open in the West End next year, directed by Jamie Lloyd. The show will have a book by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale and...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:11PM[SHARE]Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly has claimed that London mayor Boris Johnson's recent comments in support of retaining a skate park on the site has made it "extremely difficult"…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AM[SHARE]So, here we are, just two months from theatreland's biggest night of the year, and BBC Radio 2 has dropped a bombshell: it will not this year be airing the Olivier Awards live as it...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]BBC1 has commissioned a full series of Still Open All Hours, starring David Jason. The six-part series will be broadcast later this year and follows a special one-off episode that was shown …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AM[SHARE]Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke has praised live theatre cinema screenings for increasing the public's "appetite" for actual theatregoing, writes Matthew Hemley. Rourke was r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AM[SHARE]Bodyguard star Beverley Knight has issued a rallying call for her former youth drama group in Wolverhampton to be saved from a 100% cut to its local council funding. Wolverhampton City Counc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Ushers " the Front of House Musical, which premiered at the Hope Theatre in Islington last year, is to transfer to the Charing Cross Theatre. The production, written by Yiannis Koutsakos, Ja…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PM[SHARE]Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston, who last year starred together in a production of Macbeth, are to be reunited for a radio production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra this April. The …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:10AM[SHARE]Musical Jersey Boys is to tour the UK for the first time this year, beginning at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. It will begin on September 4 in Manchester, before playing in venues such a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]ITV is to launch a channel dedicated to drama that will commission original content from 2015. ITV Encore is the broadcaster's first new channel in eight years and will be available on Sky p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AM[SHARE]Moira Buffini's play Handbagged, which ran at the Tricycle Theatre last year, is to transfer to the West End. It will open at the Vaudeville Theatre from April 3 and run until August 2, with…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AM[SHARE]West End performers Jon Robyns, Niamh Perry, Jodie Jacobs and Sophia Ragavelas are lined up to star in a season of new musicals at the Landor Theatre in south London. The From Page to Stage.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AM[SHARE]Musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has once again broken the West End record for the highest reported weekly gross sales. The show, which is playing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AM[SHARE]The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Let the Right One In has scooped the theatre prize at this year's South Bank Sky Arts Awards. Let the Right One, which was adapted for the st…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM[SHARE]Arts Council England has called on the BBC to forge more partnerships and collaborations with arts organisations, claiming the result will be a "net gain for the cultural power of the UK". A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AM[SHARE]June Spencer, the 94-year old actor who has been in radio soap The Archers since its pilot episode in 1950, has been honoured with a lifetime achievement prize at this year's BBC Audio Drama…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:15PM[SHARE]Director Jerry Mitchell has revealed that his new production company is developing two original musicals, and has praised the West End as a place were work can be created for less money than…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AM[SHARE]Actor Robert Lindsay has said more productions should open their rehearsals to the media, claiming the move can be good for performers and a show's publicity. Lindsay is about to star in a m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AM[SHARE]Playwright Nick Payne is to make his television writing debut as part of a series that the BBC has said aims to "energise creativity and support new talent". Payne, who penned the play Const…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM[SHARE]Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke has urged the industry to "get behind" West End theatre owners in the wake of the incident at the Apollo, and help ensure money needed to pres…
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