Monday, May 25, 2015
The swell of internet reviews and unpalatable prices mean theatre previews no longer benefit producers or customers. So what's the point?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMThursday, May 21, 2015
There have been many threatened strikes in Theatreland over the years, but few have ever come to fruition. The last full-blown theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMThursday, May 14, 2015
When faced with a Tory government, the traditional response of the arts sector has been to curl up into a ball and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMThursday, May 7, 2015
Almost precisely a decade ago, I interviewed Dominic Dromgoole the morning after he had been appointed artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe. He’d
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMThursday, April 30, 2015
In recent years, the Tony nominations have usually meant a healthy haul for us Brits. And this year is no different. But
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMThursday, April 23, 2015
Should directors run theatres? This question has been a bone of contention in the theatre industry for some time now, but has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMonday, April 13, 2015
London’s glitziest theatre awards are sometimes criticised for being West End-centric, but this year’s Oliviers were all about Waterloo, Waterloo Bridge, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:47PMThursday, April 9, 2015
According to our front page story this week, most backstage staff think not. They are right. Not long ago, directors were saying
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMThursday, March 26, 2015
Amazon has had a presence in the theatre marketplace for a couple of years. However, its announcement this week marks a step up
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMThursday, March 19, 2015
While the fire that engulfed Battersea Arts Centre at the end of last week was a devastating event, it also brought out
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMThursday, March 12, 2015
When the Oliviers changed its judging process in 2013, there were murmurs that the new system would favour the commercial over the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMThursday, March 5, 2015
A victory of sorts, then, for campaigners calling for an overhaul to the licensing regime that governs the conditions under which children
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:37AMFriday, January 23, 2015
The trickle of new openings gains pace with the spring season shaping up to provide some of the year’s hottest tickets, with stars of the large and small screen heading to the stage. A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, August 13, 2014
Over the last decade, there have been a growing number of theatre productions which a range of vocal protest groups have sought to prevent from taking place. Their complaints have been vario…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00PMTuesday, July 1, 2014
It is a brutal, Darwinian process. Arts organisations across the country spent the early hours of this morning nervously clicking send/receive on their emails, as they awaited the all impor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMThursday, June 5, 2014
You’ll have noticed, if you have picked up this week’s print or digital edition of The Stage, the latest in a series of changes we have been making to the paper – an overhaul …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, March 28, 2014
These are the times that try the souls of New York theatre critics and Tony Award nominators. Between this Sunday, when the musical If/Then opens, and April 24, when Cabaret returns to Broad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMFriday, March 14, 2014
A couple of stories from the world of comedy this week have attested to some of the do’s and (mainly) don’ts of putting together a comedy bill. Promoters Mirth Control found them…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:33PMFriday, March 7, 2014
The Australian stage musical adaptation of King Kong, announced late last year for Broadway beginning in December 2014, has been delayed. In a statement, King Kong’s producers cited “the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AMFriday, February 28, 2014
Usually, by the beginning of March, the Broadway landscape up through the Tony nomination deadline is well set in place. But, earlier this week, a late addition cropped up, thanks to the une…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMonday, February 24, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical, Stephen Ward, will close in the West End following a run of less than four months. Stephen Ward, which had been booking until May at the Aldwych T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
Nica Burns has revealed that the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue will reopen on March 26, having been closed since December after part of the venue’s ceiling collapsed. Burns, chi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMFriday, February 14, 2014
It wasn’t unexpected, but it was still big news when producer Gerry Ryan of Global Creatures Inc. announced that the musical King Kong would make its way from Australia to Broadway in Dece…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, February 13, 2014
Young Vic artistic director David Lan has been appointed to help oversee the creation of a new performing arts centre at the World Trade Center in New York. The Performing Arts Centre at the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMThe forthcoming musical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows has become the first West End show to raise £1 million using online crowdfunding technology. Jamie Hendry Productions, which is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, February 5, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s stage musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is to be adapted into an animated feature film, it has been confirmed. Elton John’s Rock…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:45PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage a double bill of Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing later this year, as part of a season commemorating the centenary of the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMFriday, January 31, 2014
After its extended run at The Public Theater last year, the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love, about Imelda Marcos, was reported to be seeking an appropriate space for a commerc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThursday, January 30, 2014
Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales for Young and Old is to be staged as an immersive theatre piece at Shoreditch Town Hall this March. Adapted from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Pullman’s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMWednesday, January 29, 2014
Ticketmaster has appointed Sita McIntosh, formerly of See Tickets, to head up its theatre division. McIntosh, who was head of theatre and arts ticketing at See, is one of two new appointment…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMSo, the Society of London Theatre has released its 2013 results and its a tenth consecutive year of record box office, plus more attendances than ever before. I remember – about four o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AM 
