Tuesday, August 20, 2013
The forthcoming West End production of The Commitments will feature a cast comprising many performers making their West End debuts. Directed by Jamie Lloyd and based on the book by Roddy Doy…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AM[SHARE]Singer Russell Watson has teamed up with Les Miserables writers Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg for a new album that will feature songs from the pair's stage musicals. The album, a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2013
Sheridan Smith, James Purefoy, Emily Watson and Samuel Barnett are to appear in a major season of BBC dramas celebrating novels that became iconic films in the 1960s. The British New Wave se…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2013
In-demand musical theatre star Michael Xavier, currently featuring in The Sound of Music in Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, talks to Matthew Hemley
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:58AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2013
US performer Leigh Zimmerman has revealed she will be relocating to London permanently following her Olivier award-winning stint in A Chorus Line. The performer, who won the best performance…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AM[SHARE]The space, called the Oak Room, is part of private members' venue the Hospital Club in Covent Garden, and will open next month. It follows the launch of spaces including the Crazy Coqs, part…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2013
West End performer Michael Xavier has claimed that a "snobbery" towards musical theatre is preventing performers working in the genre being considered for roles in plays. Xavier, who trained…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2013
Performers and backstage staff who have been mistreated by their employers could be deterred from pursuing legal action against them, after the introduction of up-front fees for tribunals. U…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Musicals including The Bodyguard, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Top Hat are being lined up to feature in a new behind-the-scenes documentary programme to be broadcast on Channel 4. T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Newly discovered recorded performances of the Bolshoi Ballet are to have their UK premiere on Sky Arts. The six ballets, found in the Russian state archive, have been specially re-mastered f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AM[SHARE]Suranne Jones and Hermione Norris are to star in BBC1 drama The Ark. Written by Sarah Phelps, the six-part series will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War and is...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Rock of Ages' West End run will come to an end on November 2, prior to embarking on a UK tour. The musical is currently playing at the Garrick Theatre, where it transferred to in...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2013
Jo Brand, Jessica Hynes, Richard Herring and Jon Richardson are to appear as part of a charity comedy night at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The show, called Big Comedy Special, is being…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47PM[SHARE]Kerry Ellis, Janie Dee and Jenna Russell will perform live and share insights into their careers as part of a new season celebrating musical theatre at the Charing Cross Theatre. Called Sing…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:27PM[SHARE]Paul Mason, currently economics editor of BBC series Newsnight, has been appointed culture and digital editor at Channel 4 News. Channel 4 News said Mason's remit will be "wide and free rang…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:58AM[SHARE]Leigh Zimmerman, who is currently appearing in the West End production of A Chorus Line, is to bring a brand new cabaret show to the St James Theatre in October. The show, called A Love...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2013
Former EastEnders actor Lacey Turner will make her radio drama debut in an adaptation of the book Up the Junction, which will form part of a new season of plays celebrating writers from the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:08PM[SHARE]Geronimo Rauch, Claire Moore and Sean Palmer are to join the cast of The Phantom of the Opera in the West End. The new cast members will join the production on September 2, with Rauch,...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:51AM[SHARE]Nikki Davis-Jones and Emily Tierney, who have both appeared in the West End production of Wicked, will lead the forthcoming touring version of the musical. Davis-Jones, who was understudy El…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2013
BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow is to take "editorial leadership" of BBC4 on a permanent basis, following Richard Klein's departure from the channel earlier this year. Klein, who held the post…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:56PM[SHARE]Les Dennis and Warwick Davis are to join the cast of the West End production of Spamalot. Dennis joins the show as King Arthur on August 3. Meanwhile, Davis, who appeared with Dennis in the.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AM[SHARE]ITV Studios is to create a new drama unit led by Tim Haines, the co-creator and executive producer of Primeval. As creative director of drama Haines will establish the new unit, which will b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Siobhan Dillon, who was a finalist on the BBC series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, is to join Will Young in the upcoming tour of Cabaret. The tour of Rufus Norris' production,...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:04PM[SHARE]Rory Kinnear is to star as the aristocrat Lord Lucan in a new two-part drama for ITV. Lucan is penned by Jeff Pope, who wrote and produced Mrs Biggs for ITV, and will also star...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Celia Imrie is to make her cabaret debut at the Crazy Coqs in September. She will present Laughing Matters at the venue, part of Brasserie Zedel in London, from September 17 to 21. The perfo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47PM[SHARE]A new play about Liza Minnelli will have its world premiere at the Tabard Theatre in west London this September. Liza Liza Liza is written by Stepping Out playwright Richard Harris and will …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2013
EastEnders executive producer Lorraine Newman has announced she is stepping down after 16 months. She is joining the BBC's in-house drama production unit as an executive producer and will be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AM[SHARE]Stephen Rea, Lindsay Duncan and Janet McTeer will join Maggie Gyllenhaal in new BBC2 drama The Honourable Woman. The seven-part series is written by Hugo Blick, who penned The Shadow Line, a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2013
Music composed by Danny Elfman for the films of Tim Burton will be performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra in an arena show that will tour the UK. Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AM[SHARE]ITV has bought independent production company Big Talk, which makes shows such as Rev and Friday Night Dinner, for an initial payment of £12.5 million. The broadcaster said further paymen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
Wakefield's Theatre Royal and the Tom Thumb Theatre in Margate are among five venues that have received a share of around £25,000 from the Theatres Trust's small grants scheme. The scheme…
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