Thursday, September 26, 2013
Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney has been announced as one of 24 new fellows of the MacArthur Foundation, recipient of what is widely known in the US as a “genius grant.” The $625,000 aw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, September 25, 2013
UK theatre audiences are younger and more experimental than is commonly thought, according to new research published by Ticketmaster. The report, State of Play: Theatre, marks the first majo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMTuesday, September 17, 2013
Nica Burns, co-owner and chief executive of Nimax Theatres, has been recognised as private businesswoman of the year at the UK Private Business Awards. Burns owns and operates the Palace, L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMMonday, September 16, 2013
Trevor Nunn’s new staging of Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre has cancelled its opening night, due to one of its cast members falling ill. Mark Bazeley, who plays Johan i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMBen Miller is to star in a new West End play about the parliamentary expenses scandal, opening at the Vaudeville Theatre in December. The show will also feature Nancy Carroll, Debbie Chazen,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
Maxine Peake is to appear in a ‘radical re-imagining’ of Hamlet, directed by Sarah Frankcom at the Manchester Royal Exchange. Peake is joining the theatre as an associate artist…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMLichfield Garrick’s chief executive Adrian Jackson has encouraged theatres across the UK to get involved and “embrace” the My Theatre Matters! campaign. The 562-seat Garrick Theatre ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Cameron Mackintosh has reported that his forthcoming revival of Miss Saigon took more than £4 million in sales in its first day at the box office. The show went on sale yesterday (September…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:56AMMonday, September 9, 2013
The National Theatre’s production of War Horse has extended booking until October 2014, taking the show into its sixth year in the West End. The show, which premiered at the National T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMFriday, September 6, 2013
Sue Owen has been appointed permanent secretary at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, succeeding Jonathan Stephens who left the DCMS in July. Owen in currently director general, st…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:31AMMartin Shaw, Jeff Fahey, Nick Moran and Robert Vaughan are to star in a new staging of Twelve Angry Men at the Garrick Theatre this November. The production, which opens at the Birmingham Re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMGene David Kirk, artistic and executive director of new London arts venue Clapham Omnibus, has left the organisation weeks before the theatre’s gala opening. Kirk has said he is steppi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMThursday, September 5, 2013
Derren Brown is to bring his latest stage show, Infamous, back to London in 2014 for a three-night run at the Hammersmith Apollo. The production, which has recently completed a West End run …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Peterborough’s Broadway Theatre is to reopen, hosting performances for the first time since it shut in 2011. At the time of the closure, operator StageLive owed hundreds of thousands of po…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Kenneth Branagh is to make his New York stage debut next year when the Manchester International Festival production of Macbeth transfers to the US in June. Directed by Rob Ashford and Branag…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:11AMFriday, August 16, 2013
Performers at the Edinburgh Fringe were given a chance to have their revenge on critics this week, by pelting them with tomatoes. A handful of critics – including Amy Taylor from The …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
The London run of beleaguered new musical The Golden Voice has been cancelled, its host theatre has confirmed. Following repeated delays due to problems securing investment from China, the p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:44AMThe Public arts centre in West Bromwich has confirmed it will close in November, after the local council said it could not afford to continue to fund the venue. As reported by The Stage last…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMMonday, August 12, 2013
Playwright Mark Ravenhill and Young Vic artistic director David Lan have joined the judging panel for the inaugural Adrian Pagan Award, organised by the King’s Head Theatre in London. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMFriday, August 9, 2013
Ben Richards has been cast to play Bill Sykes in Sheffield Theatres’ forthcoming revival of Lionel Bart musical Oliver!. Richards has appeared in West End productions including Priscil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:44AMThursday, August 8, 2013
Peter Glanville, currently artistic director/chief executive at the Little Angel Theatre in Islington, has been appointed as the new artistic director of Polka Theatre in Wimbledon. Glanvill…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMLocal authority support for culture will fall by a further £124 million in 2013/14, according to figures published by the Department for Communities and Local Government. DCLG has just publ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMSimon Presswell has been appointed as managing director of Ticketmaster in the United Kingdom. Presswell will be responsible for the UK operation of the business which includes more than 500…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:15AMSunday, August 4, 2013
Peter Capaldi has been named as the new Doctor in BBC One TV series Doctor Who and will succeed Matt Smith in the role from this Christmas. Capaldi is best known for his performances as...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:48PMFriday, August 2, 2013
Olivia Williams is to star in a new production of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage, to be staged at the St James Theatre in London next month. Trevor Nunn will direct Joanna Mur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMTuesday, July 30, 2013
Equity is launching legal action against the producer of delayed off-West End musical The Golden Voice, in a bid to claim back tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid cast wages. The show’s …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMMonday, July 29, 2013
Madness musical Our House is to be revived in a new actor-musician version of the show this autumn. The production will open at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich on September 24, following p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:19AMFriday, July 26, 2013
Jez Butterworth’s 1995 play Mojo is to be revived in the West End, in a new production starring Brendan Coyle, Rupert Grint, Daniel Mays and Ben Whishaw. The show will be directed by I…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMThursday, July 25, 2013
Simon Callow is to write and star in a new one-man show about composer Richard Wagner, which will be staged at the Royal Opera House this September. Inside Wagner’s Head is Callow̵…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Three quarters of the capital’s small theatres require significant upgrade or renovation, with most having raised no money at all towards the necessary refurbishment work, according to a r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMArts Council England’s latest staff restructure has cost nearly £10 million, the body’s annual review has revealed. Figures published for the first time as part of ACE’s annual review…
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