Tim Rice's new musical From Here to Eternity is to close in April next year, after a run of six months in the West End. The musical, composed by Stuart Brayson with lyrics by Rice,...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PM[SHARE]Northumberland Theatre Company " which last year lost all of its core funding from Arts Council England " has been honoured for its commitment to supporting new writing. The company's artist…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AM[SHARE]Bruntwood winner Anna Jordan has urged fellow playwrights to enter the competition, claiming the initiative is a "springboard" that gives talent a boost to their careers and creativity. Jord…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AM[SHARE]Performers who appeared in idents for a new television channel have been left thousands of pounds out of pocket after the production company that hired them became insolvent. The performers …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]John Hay, specialist factual commissioning editor at Channel 4, has been appointed the broadcaster's new arts head. He replaces current arts commissioning editor Tabitha Jackson, who is leav…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AM[SHARE]Former Neighbours star Natalie Imbruglia will make her UK stage debut in a new touring production of Alan Ayckbourn's Things We Do For Love. The Theatre Royal Bath Productions show will open…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AM[SHARE]Sean Bean has been named best actor at the International Emmy Awards. The performer won the prize for his role in Accused, the BBC drama series written by Jimmy McGovern. He beat actors from…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AM[SHARE]Alistair Brammer, Tamsin Carroll and Jon Jon Briones have been cast in the forthcoming revival of Miss Saigon. Brammer, who is currently playing Billy in War Horse and has appeared in shows …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AM[SHARE]CBBC series Horrible Histories has won the best comedy prize at the BAFTA Children's Awards for the fourth year running. The series beat competition from Hacker Time, DNN and Fit " all shown…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:19AM[SHARE]Anna Jordan has been named as the winner of the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Jordan " whose writing credits include Stay Happy Keep Smiling at the Soho Theatre and Coming Home at th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AM[SHARE]Marti Webb is to reprise her role from Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Don Black's Tell Me On a Sunday, when the production runs at the St James Theatre next year. Webb starred in the original...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:39AM[SHARE]Glee star Matthew Morrison is to present a two-hour special about Broadway for BBC Radio 2. When You See My Name in Lights will be broadcast on Christmas Day, and will see Morrison go "backs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AM[SHARE]Barbara Windsor is backing a fundraising campaign to see a statue of director Joan Littlewood erected outside Theatre Royal Stratford East. Windsor worked with Littlewood at the theatre earl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AM[SHARE]Louise Dearman is to lead the cast of new musical Water Babies, which opens at Leicester's Curve next year. The performer will play Mrs D in the musical, which is based on Charles Kingsley's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AM[SHARE]Monty Python is to reunite for a one-off show at London's O2 arena, 40 years after they last appeared together on stage in the UK. John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Mich…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AM[SHARE]BBC director general Tony Hall has unveiled plans to make the Midlands a hub for "digital innovation", under proposals to increase the Corporation's activities in the region. The news follow…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AM[SHARE]Olivier award-winning musical theatre star Ruthie Henshall has announced new tour dates for 2014. The performer will take her An Intimate Evening with Ruthie Henshall tour around the UK from…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AM[SHARE]Richard Eyre's production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts is being adapted for radio. The BBC Radio 3 drama will be aired in December. It will feature the cast of the stage version of the play, whi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AM[SHARE]BBC4's Burton and Taylor and Channel 4's Utopia each picked up two prizes at this year's Royal Television Society Craft and Design Awards. Burton and Taylor won for costume design, with the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AM[SHARE]More than half of theatre professionals – including backstage staff, performers and creatives – have been bullied, harassed or discriminated against in the workplace, with women …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AM[SHARE]Russell T Davies has created two new dramas for Channel 4 and E4 exploring gay life in the 21st century. The series come 15 years after the writer penned Queer as Folk for Channel 4....
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AM[SHARE]The National Theatre's production of Othello will compete with the National Theatre of Scotland's staging of Let the Right One In and the Headlong/Almeida Theatre co-production of Chimerica …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AM[SHARE]West End musical The Bodyguard has extended its booking period to the end of August next year. It had been booking until March but will now run until August 30, 2014. The musical, at the...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:33PM[SHARE]Alan Ayckbourn's 1988 fantasy play The Boy Who Fell Into a Book is being developed into a musical that is being lined up for a run next year at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough....
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Director Sean Foley has claimed preview periods are "completely vital" for comedies that have West End runs. The director, who has recently directed Stephen Mangan and Matthew Macfadyen in t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AM[SHARE]Chanel 4 arts commissioner Tabitha Jackson, whose most recent credits include The Sound of Musicals, is leaving the broadcaster to join the Sundance Institute. Based in the US, Jackson will …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AM[SHARE]Screenwriter Peter Moffat and playwright David Edgar were among the winners at this year's Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards. Moffat won in the best TV drama series category for Silk, s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AM[SHARE]Brian Conley is to star in a UK tour of the musical Barnum, to be co-produced by Cameron Mackintosh. Mackintosh has teamed up with producer Michael Harrison to tour the musical, which will o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Winners of the Channel 4 Playwrights' Scheme have been revealed, with the successful applicants receiving a £7,000 bursary and a year-long placement with a theatre. Each of the winners wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:01PM[SHARE]Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ has been turned into a musical, following a commission by Leicester's Curve and the Royal and Derngate in Northampton. The two venu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AM[SHARE]Disabled actors will meet next month with casting directors from broadcasters including the BBC and ITV, as part of a special audition event aimed at increasing the onscreen portrayal of peo…
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