Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Terry Johnson is to direct his own play Hysteria at the Hampstead Theatre, with Antony Sher playing the role of Sigmund Freud. The play forms part of Hampstead's autumn season, which will al…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2013
A memorial service to celebrate the life of Sophiya Haque will take place at the Actor's Church, St Paul's, in Covent Garden on July 19. The service will take place at 2pm and has been...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PM[SHARE]Iain Gillie, currently executive producer at Leicester's Curve, is to join West End producer PW Productions as managing director. He will take up the role in September this year, and will be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PM[SHARE]Theatre by the Lake in Keswick has appointed Mary Papadima as associate director. Papadima, a graduate of the University of Athens, studied directing at Birkbeck in London. While there, she …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AM[SHARE]Darius Campbell, best known for finding fame on the TV talent shows Popstars and Pop Idol, has been cast in Tim Rice's new musical From Here to Eternity. Campbell, who has appeared in the We…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2013
Owain Arthur is to reprise the role of Francis Henshall in the West End production of One Man, Two Guvnors. He will return to the production on September 23, when Angela Griffin, best known …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:04PM[SHARE]Keith Chegwin is to star in The Nutcracker on Ice at the London Palladium this October. Chegwin will appear alongside Olga Sharutenko, with whom he appeared on ITV's Dancing on Ice, and the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AM[SHARE]Comedian Alexander Armstrong and US singer Michael Feinstein are among the performers lined up to appear as part of the first London Festival of Cabaret. The festival will run from October 2…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AM[SHARE]Maggie Gyllenhaal is to star in BBC2 thriller The Honourable Woman, written by Hugo Blick. The drama is described as a "fast-paced, labyrinthine thriller set against an international politic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 27, 2013
Stephen Ward, the new musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, will open at the Aldwych Theatre in December. The show, which has a book and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, will be direct…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PM[SHARE]Henry Winkler, best known for playing the Fonz in television show Happy Days, is working as the creative consultant on a new stage musical based on the US series. The musical of Happy Days w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:34AM[SHARE]A group of 11 theatres will offer internships to 16 young unemployed people after receiving funding from Arts Council England's Creative Employment Programme. ACE's scheme, run by Creative a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AM[SHARE]Cast and crew involved in the failed Coronation Street musical Street of Dreams say they have given up hope of receiving thousands of pounds owed to them, after administrators were unable to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Samuel Beckett's groundbreaking monologue Not I is to be broadcast by Sky Arts to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its UK premiere. It will star Lisa Dwan, who recently performed the work i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PM[SHARE]Will Young is to reprise the role of the Emcee in Cabaret as part of a major UK tour. The tour of the Kander and Ebb musical, directed by Rufus Norris, will open at the...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PM[SHARE]Set designer Mark Fisher, whose credits include the West End production of We Will Rock You, has died at the age of 66. A statement on the website of Stufish, the company he founded and...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AM[SHARE]Charlotte Moore, formerly the BBC's commissioning editor of documentaries, has been named the new controller of BBC1. She replaces Danny Cohen, who was named director of television in April.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has extended its booking period to May 31 next year. The musical, which opens officially at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane this week, was originally booking u…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AM[SHARE]Zoe Birkett, Keith Jack and David Hunter " who all found fame through television talent shows – are to appear as part of a production celebrating musical theatre. The performers will t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:21AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2013
West End musical A Chorus Line is to close at the end of August, with its producers announcing plans for a UK tour in 2014. The show, which is a revival of Michael Bennett's 1975...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:35AM[SHARE]Friday, June 21, 2013
Top Hat is to close in the West End this October. The production, which this year won the best new musical prize at the Olivier Awards, will close on October 26. However, a tour is...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2013
Kay Mellor is to pen a six-part series for the BBC about a group of couples expecting their first child, called In the Club. Mellor, who penned The Syndicate for the BBC and whose other...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:55PM[SHARE]Unions BECTU, Equity and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain have launched an online survey aimed at uncovering the extent to which bullying and harassment exists in the entertainment indust…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:04PM[SHARE]Performer Stephen John Davis has won a tribunal against a theatre production company that left him thousands of pounds out of pocket for work on a touring musical. Davis' claim for unpaid wa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM[SHARE]Philips " one of the leading suppliers of lamps to the theatre industry " has moved to allay fears that the sector is at risk of losing tungsten lights, claiming there is not going to...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Musical supervisors and orchestrators have secured a victory in their campaign to be honoured at the Olivier Awards, with next year's ceremony set to include a brand new prize category for w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Bursaries totalling £55,000 have been awarded to 14 drama school students across the UK, as part of a Society of London Theatre scheme that has previously helped actors such as Paterson J…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Miss Saigon, the musical penned by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, is to return to the West End in May next year. It will play at the Prince Edward Theatre, with the production ma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00PM[SHARE]BBC drama output is failing to represent the "problems and lives" of younger teen-agers, a leading lobbying group has claimed. Voice of the Listener and Viewer has warned that the BBC "does …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PM[SHARE]Leading West End performers including Ramin Karimloo, Hadley Fraser and Kerry Ellis are signed up to present shows on a brand new digital radio station dedicated to musical theatre. Stage Do…
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