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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:07AM[SHARE]Fringe venue the Landor Theatre will host the UK premiere of the musical Meet Me in St Louis next month. The musical, based on the film of the same name, has music and lyrics by...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:03AM[SHARE]The Goodale brothers discuss their new play, Perfect Nonsense, based on the Jeeves and Wooster stories of PG Wodehouse
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AM[SHARE]Lee Hall's stage adaptation of the film Shakespeare in Love will open at the Noel Coward Theatre next year. The production, adapted from the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, will …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AM[SHARE]Stiles and Drewe musical Betty Blue Eyes is to tour the UK next year. The show, based on the Alan Bennett film A Private Function, will be directed by Daniel Buckroyd, who is artistic direct…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AM[SHARE]London fringe venue the King's Head Theatre has revealed the shortlist for its inaugural Adrian Pagan playwright award. Formed by the theatre in memory of stage manager turned playwright Adr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AM[SHARE]This year's Red Planet Prize, an annual search to find new television writing talent, has opened for applications. The prize is run by production company Red Planet Pictures in association w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AM[SHARE]Bristol Old Vic, the Soho Theatre and the Watermill Theatre will each host a composer for six months as part of the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer Scheme, which has revealed the next t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AM[SHARE]Ruth Mackenzie has been appointed to lead the development of the next phase of The Space, an online digital arts platform run by Arts Council England and the BBC. The Space is due to relaunc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]ITV has commissioned a fifth series of Downton Abbey. The broadcaster said audience figures for the fourth series, which ended this weekend, had averaged at 11.8 million viewers. It claimed …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35PM[SHARE]New Stiles and Drewe musical The Wind in the Willows has become the latest production to raise investment through crowdfunding, with its producer claiming the move will change the way West E…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PM[SHARE]Janie Dee, Caroline Sheen, David Bedella, Daniel Crossley and Damian Humbley will star in the London premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Putting it Together at the St James Theatre. The show prev…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AM[SHARE]Frances Ruffelle and Isy Suttie are to star in new musical The A-Z of Mrs P at the Southwark Playhouse next year. It has a book by Diane Samuels and music and lyrics by Gwyneth...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]Reece Shearsmith is to star in Cool Rider, the Grease 2 concert that takes place at the Lyric Theatre in London next year. Shearsmith, known for his television work in The League of Gentleme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AM[SHARE]ITV has commissioned a six-part series about a vicar who turns investigator when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances. Grantchester is based on a book by James Runcie cal…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AM[SHARE]Musical theatre performer Louise Dearman is to embark on her first UK tour from February next year. The It's Time tour will see Dearman, who is currently playing Elphaba in Wicked, perform m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AM[SHARE]Newbury's Corn Exchange and Watermill Theatre are facing cuts totaling £180,000 to their funding, under proposals being considered by the local council. The Corn Exchange is facing the gr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Playwright Carla Grauls has won this year's Nick Darke award, a £6,000 prize that celebrates the "best writing for stage, screen and radio" on an environmental theme. Grauls, who is the c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PM[SHARE]Sadler's Wells generated £23.8 million in revenue in 2012/13, up from £22.1 million in 2011/12. In its annual report, published today, it said it received £2.2 million from Arts Cou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AM[SHARE]Sadler's Wells has revealed plans to establish a fourth performance space to host "cutting edge contemporary work", as part of its vision for the next 10 years. This also includes a commitme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AM[SHARE]Television presenting duo Dick and Dom are to join the cast of Monty Python's Spamalot in the West End, playing King Arthur and Patsy respectively. The move marks the presenters' West End mu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:37AM[SHARE]Sara Poyzer, who played Donna in the West End production of Mamma Mia!, is to reprise the role for the musical's international tour. The tour will include the only UK venue outside of London…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AM[SHARE]Jessica Knappett, one of the lead cast members of The Inbetweeners film, talks to Matthew Hemley about representing genuine female humour in her new E4 sitcom, Drifters
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:27AM[SHARE]Royal Holloway University's new £3.5 million Caryl Churchill Theatre will host public performances from professional theatre companies alongside student productions, in a move that has be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AM[SHARE]Actors, directors and writers who feel they have been bullied or harassed while working for the BBC will be able to report their concerns to trained counsellors via a new confidential helpli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:05AM[SHARE]Robert Lindsay and Rufus Hound are to star in the musical version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which will open at the Savoy Theatre in March next year. The production will be directed and cho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AM[SHARE]Derren Brown is to return to Channel 4 with a one-off special called The Great Art Robbery. The programme is made by Objective Productions, which said that Brown will attempt "to pull off th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AM[SHARE]Andrew Knott, best known for appearing in The History Boys both on stage and screen, is to star in a BBC drama that imagines what would have happened if The Beatles had been turned down...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AM[SHARE]ITV sitcom Vicious has been ranked as the most popular TV programme watched by young gay men, a survey has found. The research was conducted by the BBC, which assessed the viewing habits of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AM[SHARE]More than half of all people working in the entertainment industry have been bullied or harassed at work, new research has revealed. Early analysis of a survey carried out by the Federation …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AM[SHARE]From Here to Eternity composer Stuart Brayson has said the West End should be about staging "primarily new work", claiming revivals should be confined to tours. The composer, whose musical w…
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