Monday, April 29, 2013
BBC3 has commissioned a comedy starring stand up comic and singer Nick Helm called Uncle. It is being made by Baby Cow, the production company behind comedies such as Gavin and Stacey and Ni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AM[SHARE]Julia Davis and Sally Wainwright have both been awarded BAFTAs for their television writing. They were honoured at the British Academy Television Craft Awards, held last night in London and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2013
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are creating a new sitcom in which they will star for BBC2. The comedians are writing House of Fools for the channel. It is set in a flat that Reeves...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2013
Choreographer Ashley Banjo is to front a new dance series for Sky1 in which he will turn a high street into "the UK's largest open air venue". Called Ashley Banjo " The Town that Danced...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PM[SHARE]Elaine Paige and Gary Barlow will perform as part of a special BBC Radio 2 concert next month. The Friday Night is Music Night concert will form part of radio station's 2Day, which is aimed.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AM[SHARE]Former BBC head of light entertainment David Young is returning to independent company Hat Trick Productions, where he will develop new entertainment formats for the organisation. Young firs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AM[SHARE]See has rejoined the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers in a move which strengthens the rights of consumers who purchase from the company. Its decision to rejoin STAR comes after The Sta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Entertainment union BECTU is calling for a blanket ban on agents and directories " inclu-ding services such as Spotlight " charging upfront fees. The union is arguing that current legislatio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Steve November has been appointed as ITV's director of drama. November, former head of continuing drama, has been acting director of drama at ITV since January, when Laura Mackie announced s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PM[SHARE]BBC1 controller Danny Cohen has been appointed as the Corporation's new director of television. Cohen, who was made BBC1 controller in 2010, will oversee the Corporation's four main channels…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber is backing a multimillion pound scheme aimed at implementing compulsory musical instrument lessons in selected secondary schools. Together the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AM[SHARE]A stage version of Roddy Doyle's book The Commitments will open at London's Palace Theatre in September, directed by Jamie Lloyd and featuring a cast of "genuine raw talent". The show, adapt…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
Anita Dobson is to star in a new musical based on a piece of music by French composer Saint-Saens. Carnival of the Animals will run at the Riverside Studios from July 4 until July 14....
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2013
Cabaret venue the Crazy Coqs has launched a musical open mic night allowing singers and composers to "showcase their talent". The open mic night began this week at the venue, which is part o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AM[SHARE]Honeysuckle Weeks is to star in the UK premiere of Melanie Marnich's play These Shining Lives. The play is the inaugural production at the Park Theatre, which will open in Finsbury Park, nor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AM[SHARE]Sci-fi musical Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is to be staged at the Leicester Square Theatre this summer, starring Leanne Jones. Jones is best know for playing Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AM[SHARE]Composers and writers of new musicals will be given a platform to showcase their work at a major new event aimed at raising the profile of up and coming UK talent. Musical Theatre Network an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2013
The John Wilson Orchestra will return to this year's BBC Proms for the fifth consecutive year, to perform an evening of music dedicated to "unsung Hollywood composers". Called John Wilson an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AM[SHARE]Director Mike Bradwell has criticised the "predominance of Oxbridge tossers" running venues in the theatre industry, claiming the sector has been "annexed entirely by the middle class". Brad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]Musical Titanic will get its European premiere this summer at the Southwark Playhouse. The show, which has music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone, won five Tony awards…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AM[SHARE]Writers have become the latest group to express concern about the lack of opportunities for women working in the television industry. Their concerns follow those expressed by Equity and trad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Matthew Bourne's production of Sleeping Beauty has become the most successful show produced by his company New Adventures. The company said Sleeping Beauty ran at Sadler's Wells over Christm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:45AM[SHARE]Arts centre Lauderdale House has been awarded £800,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards restoration of the venue. The money will be used towards the Lauderdale House Transformed pro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2013
BBC Radio 4 has commissioned what is has called its "most ambitious drama serial" to date, with a production to mark the centenary of the First World War that will be broadcast over four yea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:58AM[SHARE]Campaigners calling for more television production in the Midlands have written an open letter to the BBC's new director general, highlighting the Corporation's "astonishing retrenchment" fr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AM[SHARE]Paul Michael Glaser, best known for playing Starsky in TV series Starsky and Hutch, will take the lead role of Tevye in a touring production of Fiddler on the Roof. The musical is being dire…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM[SHARE]Anna-Jane Casey is to join the cast of Billy Elliot the Musical in the role of dance teacher Mrs Wilkinson. She will take up the part from May 13, at the same time that Kevin...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2013
The BBC has revealed plans for a London-based hub that will be "an unrivalled centre of excellence and expertise" in music broadcasting. As part of the plan, the Corporation has appointed Ma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PM[SHARE]Arts venue Jackson's Lane has become the latest organisation ordered to be more open about its booking fees, after an investigation found that advertising for its pricing was misleading. The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AM[SHARE]Olivier award-winning lighting designers Paule Constable and Neil Austin are spearheading a global campaign aimed at protecting the future of the traditional tungsten light bulb in theatre p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2013
She's taken her End of the Rainbow show Stateside, but Tracie Bennett is appearing on British screens in a decidedly less glamorous role. She talks to Matthew Hemley about embracing tuneless…
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