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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:09AM[SHARE]Broadway musical Kinky Boots will be staged in the UK in 2015, its director has revealed. Jerry Mitchell, who is currently working on the musical version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and who h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:07AM[SHARE]Remember when Brian Conley used to shout "It's a puppet!" every time he was horrible to his furry sidekick Larry? Well, I found myself wanting to yell something similar when Hayley Cropper d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]A TV production company exposed for leaving its writers £250,000 out of pocket is facing a legal challenge from union Equity, after it emerged performers are also owed thousands by the or…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AM[SHARE]Budget cuts at the BBC have led to an "erosion of production values" on its dramas, with fewer opportunities for performers, Equity has warned. The union has claimed that 2011's licence fee …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]BBC1 series Doctor Who has been named best drama at this year’s National Television Awards, with Matt Smith winning in the best drama performance section. Other winners at the event, h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46PM[SHARE]Tell Me On a Sunday starring Marti Webb is to be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 this Easter. Radio 2 recorded a performance of the musical during its recent run at the St James Theatre...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AM[SHARE]John Travolta is to appear at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for a special event during which he will discuss his career with Jonathan Ross. The show, A Conversation with John Travolta, will b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:08AM[SHARE]West End musical From Here to Eternity is to close even earlier than originally announced, with the producers confirming it will now shut in March. In November last year producers said that …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AM[SHARE]Dervla Kirwan has criticised ageism in the industry " particularly towards women – and has backed Emma Thompson's calls for more plays to be cast against gender. Kirwan said she had no…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AM[SHARE]West End musical Once has extended until July next year. The musical, directed by John Tiffany, is booking until July 4, 2015 at the Phoenix Theatre. It opened there in April last year. The …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AM[SHARE]BBC Radio 2 is planning to drop its live broadcast of the Olivier Awards after four years. The broadcaster has aired the Oliviers live since 2010, when the awards were held at the Grosvenor …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AM[SHARE]War Horse has extended its run at the New London Theatre until February next year. The National Theatre production is now booking to February 14, 2015. Next month, the show will also be broa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:51AM[SHARE]A UK concert tour starring West End performer Louise Dearman has been cancelled. The performer, known for playing both Elphaba and Glinda in Wicked, had been due to launch her solo It's Time…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AM[SHARE]West End musician Steve McManus, whose credits included Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Witches of Eastwick, has died aged 48. The musician, who played bass and double bass, had been battlin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PM[SHARE]BBC Radio 2 is to pay tribute to Gilbert and Sullivan with a special Friday Night is Music Night concert. The show will feature music from productions including HMS Pinafore and The Mikado a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:37AM[SHARE]Writers of a major children's television drama who claim they are owed £250,000 for their work have criticised broadcasters for screening the series, claiming the move sets a "bizarre pre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AM[SHARE]Natascha McElhone is to star in the stage adaptation of Fatal Attraction directed by Trevor Nunn. The play, based on the film of the same name, is written by James Dearden, who also penned t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AM[SHARE]Michael Palin is to star in a TV drama for the first time in more than 20 years, with a three-part BBC series called Remember Me. The BBC1 ghost story is written by Gwyneth Hughes,...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PM[SHARE]Jodie Prenger is to star in Calamity Jane at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, directed by Nikolai Foster. Calamity Jane is adapted for the stage by Charles K. Freeman and has music by Sammy…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:26AM[SHARE]In the last couple of weeks I've seen two films featuring excellent leading performances from British actors " Idris Elba (in Mandela " The Long Walk to Freedom, which also stars the wonderf…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]This year's London Festival of Cabaret has been brought forward by five months to May, with its producer promising more acts, more venues and an increase in international stars. The title of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Comedian Michael McIntyre is to host his own chat show on BBC1. The six-part series, called The Michael McIntyre Chat Show, will feature celebrity guests, who will be interviewed by the come…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AM[SHARE]Ticket sales for the tour of new musical Happy Days tripled after it was featured as part of Channel 4's The Sound of Musicals documentary. Producer Amy Anzel said that being part of the doc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AM[SHARE]Nicola Walker and Mark Strong will lead the cast of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic Theatre. Ivo van Hove, who is the director of theatre company Toneelgroep in Holla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AM[SHARE]Lauren Samuels, a finalist in the BBC Andrew Lloyd Webber series Over the Rainbow, has been cast in new musical Water Babies at Leicester's Curve. Samuels, who has appeared in the West End p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:19PM[SHARE]Monty Python musical Spamalot is to close at the Playhouse Theatre in London on February 22, following a run at the venue of 15 months. The show, written by Eric Idle and John Du Prez,...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:01PM[SHARE]Stephen Wood, the executive director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, has warned that the National Theatre's NT Live initiative must never become a "substitute" for actual theat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM[SHARE]Reece Shearsmith and Sheridan Smith are to star in a three-part ITV drama called The Widower, which is based on the crimes of convicted murderer Malcolm Webster. The Widower has been co-writ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:01PM[SHARE]Paul Kerryson's last production as artistic director of Leicester's Curve will be The Sound of Music, which will run at the venue this Christmas. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical will pre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:22AM[SHARE]Do you know who Marni Nixon is? Shamefully, I didn't until I watched the BBC's Secret Voices of Hollywood programme just the other week. In case you missed it, the documentary examined those…
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