Monday, November 19, 2012
Tracie Bennett, who recently finished playing Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow on Broadway, is to join the cast of ITV's Scott and Bailey. Bennett, whose theatre credits also include Hairs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:34AM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2012
Jason Donovan will reprise the role of Tick in a touring production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert next year. The musical, which will also star Richard Grieve and Graham Weaver, will open …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AM[SHARE]Suranne Jones is to star in a revival of Jonathan Harvey's play Beautiful Thing in April next year. The production is being staged to mark the 20th anniversary of the play and will be direct…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2012
BBC Scotland is to launch a major new writers-in-residence opportunity for talent from or living in the country. The Frank Deasy award, named after the screenwriter who died in 2009, will of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Sherlock creator Steven Moffat has picked up the top prize at this year's Writers' Guild Awards. The writer, who co-created Sherlock with Mark Gatiss and is also the showrunner on BBC1's Doc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PM[SHARE]Reckless Entertainment, one of the two production companies behind the cancelled Coronation Street musical Street of Dreams, has been placed into administration. The appointment of Chantrey …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PM[SHARE]Performers conned out of money by bogus agencies will stand a better chance of recovering their funds under proposals unveiled by the government, a minister claims. Currently, when a busines…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Lucy Beaumont has been named the winner of the BBC Radio 2 New Comedy Award. The comic, who came third in last year's So You Think You're Funny competition in Edinburgh, beat more than 800...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2012
Faye Tozer, best known for being part of the pop group Steps, is to star in a new musical called The Tailor-Made Man at the Arts Theatre. The musical tells the true story of silent...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:09AM[SHARE]Comic John Bishop and playwright Jonathan Harvey have teamed up to write Panto!, a comedy for ITV. The comedy will star Bishop, alongside Sheridan Smith, Samantha Spiro, Mark Benton and Ches…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AM[SHARE]Musical Loserville is to close in January after just three months in the West End. The show, written by Elliot Davis and James Bourne, will close at the Garrick Theatre on January 5, 2013. I…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AM[SHARE]George Entwistle has stepped down as director general of the BBC after just 54 days in the job. He announced his decision to leave the Corporation at the weekend, following the broadcast of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2012
American performers Gavin Creel and Jared Gertner have been cast as the leads in the London production of The Book of Mormon. The show opens in February next year at the Prince of Wales Thea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AM[SHARE]Matthew Hemley meets Rob Brydon as he makes his West End debut in the latest revival of Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:52AM[SHARE]BBC3 has commissioned a two-part factual drama about a fatal car crash that devastates a small community. The programme, which has the working title One Day Like This, is being made by Darlo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AM[SHARE]Rufus Hound is to join the cast of One Man, Two Guvnors next year. He will take up the role of Frances Henshall in February, replacing Owain Arthur, who will be joining the international tou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2012
Russell Tovey has been cast in a new ITV sitcom called The Job Lot. It is being made by Big Talk Productions, the company behind Rev, and will also star Sarah Hadland, who is best...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AM[SHARE]Hands up! Let me see how many of you have been " or still are " involved in amateur dramatics? I was, when I was younger. And I loved it. Which is why I am...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AM[SHARE]Nicolas Brown, the BBC's director of UK drama production, is to join Neal Street Productions next year. He will be responsible for spearheading the company's expansion into television drama,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AM[SHARE]Equity has claimed victory in a defamation case that could strengthen performers' rights in their dealings with agents. Matthew Hemley reports
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AM[SHARE]Author Michael Morpurgo has revealed plans to write specifically for both stage and screen, following the success his book War Horse has enjoyed since being adapted into a play. He said he i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2012
Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Frances De La Tour have been cast in an ITV studio sitcom called Vicious. The comedy is being written by Gary Janetti, who has co-created the series with playw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:08AM[SHARE]Friday, November 2, 2012
Gavin Lee, who originated the role of Bert in the London production of Mary Poppins, is to replace Tom Chambers in Top Hat. Meanwhile, Charlotte Gooch, who has just completed a run playing P…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2012
Hugh Bonneville and Tom Hollander have been cast in a BBC Radio adaptation of Michael Frayn's book Skios, which will form part of a mini-season celebrating the writer in his 80th year. Skios…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AM[SHARE]An anticipated boost to the number of dramas made in the UK after tax breaks are introduced next year could expose "skills gaps and shortages" within the production sector. The worry comes f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Comedian Mark Watson has penned a comedy pilot for the BBC that will form part of the Corporation’s second Salford Sitcom Showcase. The first showcase was held last year and saw six co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre has announced plans to stage productions of Pride and Prejudice and The Winter's Tale next year. The two shows will run alongside the previously announced To K…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2012
Wilton's Music Hall, London: Theatre of the Damned's The Horror! The Horror! is the first site-specific production to be staged within rooms at Wilton's Music Hall while the main a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2012
Hayley Atwell is to star in a new three-part crime drama for ITV1. Life of Crime is being made by Ecosse Films and follows a policewoman over three decades working for the Metropolitan Polic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AM[SHARE]A new £10,000 writers prize launched by the BBC and National Theatre Wales earlier this year has been presented to playwright Katherine Chandler. The Wales Drama Award has been described …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AM[SHARE]Tim Rice's musical From Here to Eternity will open at the Shaftesbury Theatre next year. The production will be directed by Tamara Harvey and will open at the theatre on September 30, 2013, …
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