Monday, October 14, 2013
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...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 12, 2013
Tim Rice tells Matthew Hemley how accepting demos offered on spec can uncover gems partly explaining why he is working with hitherto little known composer Stuart Brayson on his new musical, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55AM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2013
Backstage staff from the West End production of Spamalot swapped places with actors and trod the boards for the first ever Stage Management Day, which saw venues around the UK celebrate the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:51AM[SHARE]Richard Fleeshman and Jenna Russell have been cast in the forthcoming production of Urinetown at the St James Theatre. The musical, which will be directed by Jamie Lloyd, will also star Kati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2013
Tim Rice has called for the length of preview periods on theatre shows to be reduced, claiming producers are now viewing them as "super-rehearsals". The Jesus Christ Superstar lyricist told …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Jackie Clune and James Dreyfus have joined the cast of the Menier Chocolate Factory's forthcoming production of Candide. Clune, who most recently played Violet in the tour of 9 to 5 will tak…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2013
The BBC's Shakespeare archive is to be digitised and made available for free to schools across the country, under plans unveiled by new director general Tony Hall today. Hall, outlining his …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2013
Sitcom Open All Hours is to be revived by the BBC for a one-off Christmas special, more than 25 years after it was last shown on television. David Jason will reprise his role as Granville...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:38PM[SHARE]Music composed for Royal Shakespeare Company productions will be made available to buy as part of a new series of recordings. The RSC said the series of albums will capture "some of the live…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PM[SHARE]Doctor Who actor Matt Smith is to star in the musical version of Bret Easton Ellis' book America Psycho at the Almeida Theatre. Smith will play Patrick Bateman in the show, which is a co-pro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AM[SHARE]Arts programming on the BBC’s television channels is to be given a major boost with a 20% increase to the genre’s budget. Director general Tony Hall said the Corporation needs to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AM[SHARE]A production company focusing on musicals and plays for both the West End and Broadway has been launched in partnership with producer Just for Laughs Theatricals. Glass Half Full Productions…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 6, 2013
Henry Winkler is so ingrained in the public's conscience as the Fonz that casting the same role in a musical version of the Happy Days was always going to present a challenge. As well as...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:53AM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2013
A new musical about theatre front of house staff will run at recently announced fringe venue, the Hope Theatre, in December. Ushers " The Front of House Musical will run at the venue from De…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AM[SHARE]Roddy Doyle's book The Commitments is to be adapted for BBC Radio 4 as part of a week of programming celebrating the Irish author's work. The Commitments, which is being recorded in a pub in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2013
The Leicester Square Theatre in London has launched an initiative to discover new musical theatre writers, with the winning work receiving a fully-staged production at the venue. Called the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AM[SHARE]Casting agencies "touting for business" from leading TV production companies have been accused of undercutting an industry pay agreement for background artists. The warning has come from uni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AM[SHARE]Theatres around the UK will come together to honour backstage staff next week as part of the industry's first ever Stage Management Day. The day, on October 10, has been organised by the Sta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AM[SHARE]Performers involved in a touring Glenn Miller musical are fighting to recoup money they claim is owed to them after the show was pulled part-way through its run. It marks the second time tha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM[SHARE]An app featuring rare archive material from the National Theatre, including rehearsal pictures and cast interviews, will be launched to mark the venue's 50th anniversary this month. The NT s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2013
BAFTA has changed the rules for its television awards in a move that will allow web-based broadcasters such as Netflix to enter for the first time. The change means web-based channels that c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2013
Former National Theatre artistic director Richard Eyre has claimed whoever replaces Nicholas Hytner in the post will need to "redefine the function" of the venue or risk being regarded as "H…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AM[SHARE]Lyricist Don Black has called for a statue of Andrew Lloyd Webber to be erected on Shaftesbury Avenue in London's West End to recognise what he has done for musical theatre. Black, who worke…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AM[SHARE]Stella, the Sky series penned by and starring Ruth Jones, picked up three prizes at this year's BAFTA Cymru Awards. The show won the best television drama award, with Jones taking home the p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2013
War Horse is to be broadcast live to cinemas in February next year as part of National Theatre Live. The play, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's book by Nick Stafford, is currently running…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AM[SHARE]A musical inspired by BBC2 series The Great British Bake Off will have its premiere at the Landor Theatre in south London next month. The theatre is also to host a revival of Polly Stenham's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AM[SHARE]Robert Noble, joint director of Matthew Bourne's company New Adventures, has called on Arts Council England to review the dance organisations it regularly funds and reward "companies which a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2013
Nigel Harman is to make his directorial debut with the touring production of Shrek the Musical, which will begin in July next year. Harman played Lord Farquaad in the original London product…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Actors Paul Brannigan, James Floyd, Tom Holland and Chloe Pirrie are among the talent who have been selected as part of BAFTA's first ever Breakthrough Brits initiative. The Breakthrough Bri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2013
The BBC has been urged to take "more concerted" action to provide for the 2 million children who watch its mainstream channels but do not access either CBeebies or CBBC. A review into the Co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
The writer of Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory has blamed the musical's collapse on cash flow problems, but has insisted the show will have a future. Paul Boyd, who was also a producer of the prod…
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