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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sky1 has commissioned a fifth series of the drama Strike Back. The fourth run of the drama begins tonight, but Sky1 director Adam Macdonald and head of drama Cameron Roach have already annou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:38PM[SHARE]TV production company Kudos and the Bush Theatre have revealed the 12 writers participating in the second year of their drama development scheme. Called the Kudos/Bush Initiative, the projec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:35PM[SHARE]Sophie-Louise Dann, Robert Meadmore and Russell Grant are to star in Ivor Novello " The Great British Musical at the London Hippodrome next month. The show first played at the St James Theat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AM[SHARE]Oliver Chris, currenty appearing in ITV's Breathless, tells Matthew Hemley all about the new medical drama
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:56AM[SHARE]BBC2 has commissioned a second series of the drama Peaky Blinders. The six-part series is being written once again by Steven Knight, who also created the gangster drama. He said: "I am so pl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PM[SHARE]Comedian Dave Gorman has become the latest high-profile performer to boycott venues run by Ambassador Theatre Group because of its "unreasonable" booking fees. The comic, who is currently on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:39AM[SHARE]A new category honouring musical theatre performers has been added to this year's London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. The best musical performance section has been announced today as par…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]The 125th anniversary of the birth of Irving Berlin will be marked with a show at the Royal Festival Hall in London next year. Irving Berlin " From Rags to Ritzes will play at the...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AM[SHARE]Writers working for BBC Radio have been awarded a 2% increase to their minimum fees following negotiations between the Corporation and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. The new rates mean…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AM[SHARE]UK theatres are being targeted as part of a nationwide campaign aimed at cracking down on misleading ticket prices quoted on venues' websites. The Advertising Standards Authority has launche…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Paul Kerryson will direct a brand new production of musical Hairspray at Leicester's Curve next year. Kerryson, the venue's artistic director, will work alongside Lee Proud as choreographer …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AM[SHARE]An exhibition featuring rare theatrical artefacts from the 18th century, including playbills and newspaper cuttings, aims to reveal how the Georgians paved the way for popular culture as we …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]A concert version of Grease 2 will be staged at the Lyric Theatre in London on January 27 next year. It is being produced by Christopher D Clegg and James D P Drury. Clegg said:...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AM[SHARE]CBBC series Wolfblood has picked up four nominations for this year's British Academy Children's Awards. The show is up for best drama, while creator Debbie Moon is recognised in the writer s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AM[SHARE]Wicked star Louise Dearman is to release an album of musical theatre songs, including numbers from Sunset Boulevard, Les Miserables and A Chorus Line. It's Time is Dearman's third studio alb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AM[SHARE]Melvyn Bragg is to initiate a parliamentary debate about the affect arts cuts are having around on cities and towns around the UK, claiming places such as Glasgow and Newcastle are now "suff…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]More than 1,800 entries were received for the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, with a shortlist of 10 – covering themes such as youth, sexuality and politics – unveiled this…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PM[SHARE]A new prize recognising "digital innovation" in the theatre industry has been launched by the BBC. The award will be presented by the BBC Writersroom and was launched today by director gener…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:17AM[SHARE]Musical Forest Boy has been named as the winner of the inaugural S&S award, which will see the production performed at the St James Theatre later this year. The S&S award is presente…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AM[SHARE]One-third of jobs taken by young people working in technical and backstage roles in the entertainment industry are unpaid, according to a survey conducted by BECTU. The study gave new entran…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Loserville writers James Bourne and Elliot Davis have unveiled their next project as a show in which "country music meets Armageddon". The writers showcased their new musical, Out There, at …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Plans to redevelop south London's Theatre Peckham have been scrapped in favour of a complete rebuild of the premises, which will give the venue more seating and a new rehearsal space. As rep…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AM[SHARE]The BBC has launched what it has called its "most ambitious" season yet, with four years of programmes to mark the centenary of the First World War. The season will run from 2014 to 2018,...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AM[SHARE]Denise Van Outen is to star in a new one-woman show that she has co-written called Some Girl I Used To Know. The production, which she has written with Terry Ronald, will open at the...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:56AM[SHARE]Low-paid jobs and performer "exploitÂation" in the entertainment industry are on the increase, claims Equity, with the union warning that the rise is being compounded by the decreasing le…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AM[SHARE]A touring production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which starred Darren Day and Niki Evans, has been pulled just days into its six-week run. It marks the second high-profile…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AM[SHARE]The Circus of Horrors is to play a series of dates at London's Lyric Theatre, in a move that producers claim will see a circus take up residency of a London theatre for the first...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AM[SHARE]Eric Morecambe's widow has joined a campaign aimed at saving Blackpool's ABC Theatre from demolition, labelling the move a "backwards step". The venue, built as a music hall in 1895, has pre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:44AM[SHARE]A mystery £1.2 million in Equity's accounts will be the subject of a court hearing next year, as the union seeks to establish whether it can use the money "for the benefit of the members"…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:58AM[SHARE]Beatles show Let It Be will embark on its first ever tour of UK and Ireland from February next year. The tour will begin at the Palace Theatre in Manchester on February 28, 2014, where...
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