Wednesday, January 29, 2014
So, 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 07:31AMLondon’s major commercial and subsidised theatres have reported their 10th consecutive year of record box office takings, with more people visiting theatre in the capital in 2013 than ever…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTuesday, January 28, 2014
Mark Bazeley and Kristin Davis will join Natascha McElhone in Trevor Nunn’s production of Fatal Attraction at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Davis, who is best known for her role as Charlott…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:04PMMonday, January 27, 2014
Cameron Mackintosh has become the first British producer to be inducted into Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame. Mackintosh is joined by this year’s fellow inductees actors Cherry Jones…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMITV has confirmed that it will broadcast a highlights programme on the night of the Olivier Awards again this year. Exact details of the broadcast have yet to be confirmed, but it follows 20…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMWales’ two national companies – National Theatre Wales and Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru – have taken five wins apiece at the Theatre Critics of Wales Awards. The judging panel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMFriday, January 24, 2014
Sinead Cusack and Clare Higgins are to appear in Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz at the Old Vic. Other Desert Cities, which will be directed by Lindsay Posner, is the first play in...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMKathleen Turner and Ian McDiarmid are to star in a new West End play, opening at the Duchess Theatre in May. Bakersfield Mist by Stephen Sachs, billed as a comedy that “asks vital ques…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMThursday, January 23, 2014
Former Whatsonstage chief Terri Paddock has spoken out for the first time about her shock departure from the theatre website at the end of last year, describing it as “sudden and unexpecte…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
John Whittingdale, chair of parliament’s culture, media and sport committee, has told The Stage he wants to hold regular inquiries into Arts Council England’s funding decisions, as is al…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMCulture secretary Maria Miller has said that making the economic case for the arts helped secure a better deal for the sector from the Treasury at the last government spending review. Delive…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMMonday, January 20, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Stephen Ward has announced a three-month extension to its booking period at the Aldwych Theatre. The show, which opened in the West End on December 19, is now boo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMSaturday, January 18, 2014
Three people have been injured by a set collapse during a performance of Fuerzabruta at the Roundhouse in London. The incident occurred during Friday night’s performance of the immersi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMFriday, January 17, 2014
The Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that it will mount the third Broadway production of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off next January, under the direction of Jeremy Herrin in his Broadw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:23AMThom Southerland will direct a US version of the musical Titanic, following his concert version of the show that played on the London fringe in 2013. The Maury Yeston / Peter Stone musical w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMThe Cripple of Inishmaan, starring Daniel Radcliffe and directed by Michael Grandage, is to transfer to Broadway, opening at the Cort Theatre on April 20. The revival of Martin McDonagh̵…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AMAs if being a professional theatre critic (for The Wall Street Journal), opera librettist (The Letter, Dance Russe and The King’s Man with composer Paul Moravec), and biographer (The Skept…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, January 16, 2014
Lisa Makin is to join Chichester Festival Theatre as creative producer. Makin was head of casting for London’s Royal Court Theatre for 20 years, before moving to the commercial sector and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, January 15, 2014
Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil has announced the formation of Cirque du Soleil Theatrical, a New York-based division that will focus on developing new shows for Broadway, the West End and t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMTuesday, January 14, 2014
Qdos Entertainment has announced it has raised more than £500,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Children’s Charity. The pantomime producer, which also operates theatres through its…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMonday, January 13, 2014
Parliament is to hold an inquiry into whether arts funding is distributed fairly across England, or is too heavily weighted towards London. The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has announc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMThursday, January 9, 2014
Andrew Loyd Webber’s charitable foundation has announced six grants, totalling more than £150,000, which will support apprenticeships within professional arts organisations. Five theatre …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMWednesday, January 8, 2014
Terri Paddock, the long-serving editorial and managing director of theatre website Whatsonstage, left the company suddenly at the end of 2013, The Stage can reveal. It is understood that Pad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:56AMThe National Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is to move out of the Apollo Theatre, following the ceiling collapse at the venue before Christmas. F…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMTuesday, January 7, 2014
Arts Council England has announced a 2% cut to its core funding for cultural organisations from 2015/16, in a move which will also see Lottery cash used for regular revenue funding of the ar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMThe Old Vic is to recreate its theatre-in-the-round CQS Space for a season of productions, launching in March with a play by US playwright Jon Robin Baitz. The CQS space was originally creat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMFriday, January 3, 2014
One of the notable, ongoing features of The Stage 100 list has been the interplay between theatre producers and theatre operators. Since its launch in 1997, the list has largely been dominat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThursday, January 2, 2014
Conventional wisdom is being thrown to the winter winds this month on Broadway. It is generally accepted that the New Year brings a spate of closings, opening up theatres for new shows to op…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:45PMTuesday, December 24, 2013
Father and son John and Lex Shrapnel have been cast in a new production of Caryl Churchill’s A Number, which will run at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton in February. The production…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMThursday, December 19, 2013
Five people are reported seriously injured after the ceiling collapsed at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue this evening during a performance of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28PMArts organisations in England are to face a further 1.17% cut to their funding in 2014/15 following reductions in the culture budget announced as part of the Autumn Statement. Arts Council E…
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