Friday, October 5, 2012
Strictly Come Dancing stars Robin Windsor and Kristine Rihanoff are to star in dance show Burn the Floor at the Shaftesbury Theatre next year. The production, billed as an "electrifying danc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2012
Musical Rock of Ages is to close at the Shaftesbury Theatre in January, before moving to a new venue in the West End. A spokesman for the show confirmed to The Stage that the show...The post…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PM[SHARE]Dreamboats and Petticoats is to return to the West End later this month, playing at the Wyndham's Theatre. The musical, by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, originally ran at the Playhouse Th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:37AM[SHARE]Principals from London's leading drama schools, including RADA's Edward Kemp, have defended themselves from claims that only "rich kids" can afford to train at their organisations. This foll…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AM[SHARE]Jonathan Neil has been announced as the winner of this year's Red Planet writing prize. Organised by production companies Red Planet Pictures and Kudos Film and TV, the Red Planet Prize has …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AM[SHARE]BBC1 has commissioned a full series of Lapland, the comedy that was broadcast as a 90-minute special last Christmas. Starring Sue Johnston, the six-part comedy is being made by the BBC's com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Actors owed thousands of pounds for their work on the cancelled musical Disco Inferno are "unlikely" to see any of the money, the accountant handling liquidation of the show's production com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2012
Author Terry Pratchett has formed his own production company, which will have exclusive rights to the writer's work. Narrativia will be headed by Rod Brown, who will work with Pratchett to d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:13PM[SHARE]Seussical, the musical by Stephen Flaherty and Lyn Ahrens, will play at the Arts Theatre in London this Christmas. The show, which Flaherty and Ahrens co-conceived with Eric Idle and is base…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AM[SHARE]Dutch theatre producer Robin de Levita has joined forces with Kees Abrahams, one of the founders of TV production company 2waytraffic, to launch Imagine Nation. Imagine Nation is described b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2012
Matthew Hemley talks to Matthew Lewis about life after the Harry Potter filmsThe post Better the Neville you know appeared first on The Stage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PM[SHARE]Channel 4 has ordered a follow-up to its English Civil War drama The Devil's Whore. New World will once again be written by Peter Flannery and Martine Brant, and has been described as "a gri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AM[SHARE]Sally Ann Triplett, currently starring as Donna in Mamma Mia!, has been cast in the new Spice Girls musical, Viva Forever!. Triplett's casting sees her once again working with producer Judy …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2012
Harry Enfield has teamed up with Skins writer Bryan Elsley to launch a new independent TV production company called Balloon. A statement announcing the company today said that Balloon had be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:51AM[SHARE]The English National Ballet's new artistic director Tamara Rojo has called on Arts Council England and the government to do more to help arts organisations overcome funding cutbacks. Speakin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AM[SHARE]Ben Forster, star of the new touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar, has claimed that the show could herald a "new generation" of arena musicals. Speaking to The Stage as the arena…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Singer Andy Williams has died aged 84.The post Andy Williams dies aged 84 appeared first on The Stage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Olivier Award-winning actor David Bamber is to star in the UK premiere of Marvin Hamlisch's musical Sweet Smell of Success.The post Arcola Theatre to stage UK premiere of Sweet Smell of Succ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PM[SHARE]Olivier Award-winning actor David Bamber is to star in the UK premiere of Marvin Hamlisch's musical Sweet Smell of Success.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:55AM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2012
Maggie Smith has won the prize for best supporting actress in a drama series at the Emmy awards, beating her Downton Abbey co-star Joanne Froggatt.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2012
BBC Radio 3 and 4 will commission brand new scripts from comedy and drama writers as part of a major new competition launched this week.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PM[SHARE]Paul O'Grady's management company has begun legal proceedings against the producers of the postponed Coronation Street musical Street of Dreams.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PM[SHARE]Helen Mirren is to reprise her role as the Queen for the world premiere of Peter Morgan's play The Audience.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AM[SHARE]Suggs is to star in a concert production of the Madness musical Our House, being held to mark the tenth anniversary of the show.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2012
BBC3 has commissioned a six-part studio sitcom written by and starring comedians Tom Parry, Matthew Crosby and Ben Clark.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AM[SHARE]Eddie Izzard, Nicholas Parsons and Sandi Toksvig are to feature in a BBC2 series aimed at lifting the lid on the multimillion pound business surrounding the comedy industry.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AM[SHARE]Prolific television producer Michael Hurll, the man behind shows such as The Two Ronnies and the British Comedy Awards, has died aged 75.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2012
London's Menier Chocolate Factory has introduced a pricing system offering tickets that are cheaper the earlier they are bought.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PM[SHARE]Creditors owed thousands of pounds after London theatre shop Dress Circle went into liquidation have expressed anger that the store has begun operating again under a new name.
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