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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PM[SHARE]Composer Richard Sherman will discuss working with Walt Disney on the film of Mary Poppins as part of a major season of programming on the BBC called the Sound of Cinema. Sherman, who togeth…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:56AM[SHARE]Leicester's Curve is to host more conferences and events in a bid to stem a funding shortfall, with the theatre warning that it may programme less touring work as a result. Chief executive F…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Schools around the UK have been warned against paying hundreds of pounds to include their students in a concert linking itself to The X Factor, after ITV denied any association with the even…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The future of the Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton has been secured, after the local council agreed a deal with administrators to take control of the venue. As reported in The Stage earlier this…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AM[SHARE]Cast and crew from the West End's two longest running musicals – Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera – are to go head to head in a charity football match, aimed at raisin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Terence Rattigan and John Gielgud's adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is to receive its world premiere at the King's Head Theatre in London. Rattigan and Gielgud collaborat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:28PM[SHARE]Greenwich Playhouse has been replaced by a backpackers' hostel, despite previous reassurances from the property's owners that the venue would continue to be used for the arts. The Greenwich …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AM[SHARE]Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm are to return to Sky Arts for a second series of A Young Doctor's Notebook. Part of the Playhouse Presents strand, the series will be broadcast later this year.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2013
A concert staging of The Secret Garden musical will tour the UK from October. The tour will open at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre on October 11, before moving to the Fairfield Halls in Croydon, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PM[SHARE]Creative industries including television and radio have been accused of "institutional racism", after new research revealed a large drop in the number of black, Asian and ethnic minority peo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2013
Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, and Benedict Cumberbatch are among the British talented nominated for this year's Primetime Emmy Awards Bonneville is up for…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12PM[SHARE]An arena production based on JM Barrie's Peter Pan and starring Stacey Solomon as Tinkerbell has been postponed until Christmas. Peter Pan " The Never Ending Story had been due to open at th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PM[SHARE]End credits on BBC programmes have been overhauled yet again, following ongoing pressure from viewers and campaigners to give actors and creatives proper recognition for their work. The Corp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2013
Jane Campion talks to Matthew Hemley as she teams up with Holly Hunter in the writer/director's first television drama in more than 20 years, BBC2's Top of the Lake.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2013
An archive of Stephen Sondheim memorabilia that includes a billboard for the 1958 London production of West Side Story and photos of Maria Friedman in the 1992 staging of Merrily We Roll Alo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Lenny Henry is to star in a BBC radio drama that he has also written called Miss You Still. Described as an "enthralling ghost story", the BBC Radio 4 production sees Henry cast as a...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 7, 2013
Lesley Sharp talks to Matthew Hemley about her her continuing presence on the nation's screens in ITV's Scott and Bailey and now Sky1's Starlings
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:21AM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2013
Fog, a play by Tash Fairbanks and Toby Wharton that was originally staged at the Finborough Theatre in London last year, is to tour the UK. The play will star Wharton, who appeared in it...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PM[SHARE]The producer of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail has won a legal claim for royalties from the spin-off West End production Spamalot. Mark Forstater claimed he was entitled to money t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:05AM[SHARE]Jamie Lloyd is to direct Hayley Atwell and Mathew Horne in Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride, which will be the third production in the Trafalgar Transformed season. Lloyd originally directed …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2013
Performer Bernie Nolan has died at the age of 52. Nolan, who appeared in TV series such as Brookside and on stage in productions including Blood Brothers, died following a long battle with b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:06AM[SHARE]Gary Wilmot is to star in the London premiere of musical comedy Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory. Originally staged at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast and then in Edinburgh last year, the musical wil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AM[SHARE]Sam Walters, co-founder of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, is to step down as artistic director of the venue after 42 years. Walters will leave the post at the end of June, 2014, when...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AM[SHARE]Channel 4 is to take over sponsorship of the Pearson Playwrights' Scheme, which has supported talent such as Lucy Prebble, Richard Bean and Catherine Johnson. The scheme, in its 40th year, h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Michael Palin, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Emilia Fox are to star in a BBC2 drama called The Wipers Times, written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. The 90-minute historical drama is based on the tru…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PM[SHARE]Claire Sweeney is to star in a tour of John Godber's play, September in the Rain. The two-hander also stars John Thomson and is being directed by Godber. It is produced by Paul Tyrer and...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PM[SHARE]Four touring theatre companies from the north-east have formed a consortium aimed at boosting their fundraising capability and "securing their long-term futures". Called Twine, the consortiu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PM[SHARE]A BBC awards scheme that launched the careers of actors such as Stephen Tompkinson and Richard Griffiths has named this year's winners, with all the recipients being cast in a major seven-pa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PM[SHARE]The Landor Theatre and production company Aria Entertainment have announced plans for their second musical theatre showcase, which will include new works from both the UK and the US that wil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AM[SHARE]P&O Cruises has opened its own dedicated rehearsal studios in Southampton, where every performer hired to appear on its ships will spend nine weeks preparing for its on-board productions…
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