Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Sid Owen has pulled out of new musical Carnaby Street and will be replaced by Aaron Sidwell. Writer and producer Carl Leighton-Pope said he was "disappointed that Sid has decided to remain i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AM[SHARE]The Traverse Theatre's co-production of The Salon Project forms part of the 2013 line-up for video on demand site Hibrow. Hibrow was launched online last year and is the brainchild of filmma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Julie Walters has been honoured at this year's South Bank Sky Arts Awards for a career in television, film and theatre that spans four decades. The performer was awarded the outstanding achi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AM[SHARE]Singers and dancers who appeared at the historic cabaret club Talk of the Town in London will be reunited next month at the Hippodrome, the site of the former theatre restaurant. They will j…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2013
Olivier award-winning actor Bertie Carvel is leading a campaign aimed at preventing performers having to work two shows on a Sunday. Equity and the Society of London Theatre's proposed settl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2013
Matthew Hemley talks to Jennifer Ellison about overcoming her fears to create a diverse and impressive career
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2013
Kay Mellor is to direct a production of her own play, A Passionate Woman, starring Lynda Bellingham, as part of Sheffield Theatres' new season. The season will open with Alan Bennett's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AM[SHARE]Gavin Creel and Jared Gertner, stars of new West End musical The Book of Mormon, have claimed the production is helping to bring new audiences into theatre. Speaking to The Stage, Gertner sa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2013
Newly appointed Arts Council England chair Peter Bazelgette has called on local authorities to prioritise culture as an "essential" service. Bazalgette, speaking in his first live web chat s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AM[SHARE]Theatre and television casting service PCR has announced it is to close after 45 years. Production and Casting Report was formed in 1968 and has provided a website and weekly newsletter with…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2013
The Menier Chocolate Factory is to stage the European premiere of The Color Purple musical. It will open at the Southwark venue on July 5 and run until September 14, with press night on July…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AM[SHARE]Independent producers secured 99% of the drama hours available through the BBC's Window of Creative Competition initiative, a report has revealed. The WoCC was established in 2007 to ensure …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2013
Sheffield Theatres and Staffordshire's New Vic Theatre have been hit with cuts totalling more than £120,000, after their respective local authorities approved budget proposals. Recently n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AM[SHARE]West End musical Jersey Boys, which celebrates its fifth birthday this month, has extended its booking period until March next year. The show, at the Prince Edward Theatre, is now booking un…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AM[SHARE]Hull Truck Theatre founder Mike Bradwell is to direct his first main house play for the organisation in more than 30 years, with a production of Tim Fountain's Queen of the Nile. Fountain's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2013
Olivia Colman, Anne Marie Duff and Sheridan Smith will go head to head for the title of best actress at this year's Royal Television Society Programme Awards. Colman and Duff are nominated f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AM[SHARE]A dispute between union BECTU and Ambassador Theatre Group that saw theatres around the UK threatened with strike action has been resolved. The two parties met yesterday and were able to set…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AM[SHARE]The Old Vic is to open up its talent development arm to people of all ages for the first time, as part of an overhaul which will also see the theatre launch a space dedicated...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AM[SHARE]Marti Pellow is to play Che in a new touring production of Evita. Bill Kenwright's production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical will open at the New Wimbledon Theatre on May 15…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AM[SHARE]Trevor Nunn is to direct Patricia Hodge, Caroline Quentin and Rory Bremner in Noel Coward's Relative Values. The production forms part of the Theatre Royal Bath's summer season, which will a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2013
Birmingham Royal Ballet and English Touring Opera are among the organisations that have been awarded funding to host a music fellow, as part of an initiative launched by the BBC Performing A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PM[SHARE]Former EastEnders actor Sid Owen is to make his musical theatre debut in a new sixties-themed production called Carnaby Street. The show has been written by music agent Carl Leighton-Pope an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AM[SHARE]Jennifer Ellison has criticised the media for focusing on performers' weight and appearance, claiming she would be "anorexic by now" if she did not have the support of her family and friends…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2013
West End shows such as The Lion King and Wicked could be disrupted by strike action, after talks between union BECTU and Ambassador Theatre Group over working conditions for theatre staff br…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AM[SHARE]Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films has been forced to make a U-turn over plans to underpay extras in the popular ITV series. The production company had been offering extras working on the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Frances Ruffelle is in her first week of playing Edith Piaf at Leicester's Curve. She tells Matt Hemley why she considers herself to be more actor-singer than a singer in her own right
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2013
Staff working for the New Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham fear they are at risk of losing their jobs after Ambassador Theatre Group launched a consultation about a "restructure" at the venue…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Producers of West End musical Singin' in the Rain are preparing to close the show in August, ahead of a planned nationwide tour of the UK. The Chichester Festival Theatre production opened a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The Menier Chocolate Factory's production of Merrily We Roll Along is to transfer to the West End. Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, directed by Maria Friedman, is currently playi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AM[SHARE]Monday, February 18, 2013
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is being adapted into a six-part series for the BBC. Andrew Davies is writing the BBC1 drama, which is being made through BBC Wales. BBC1 controller Danny Cohen s…
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