Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Arts 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMArts Council England has revealed that it will open applications for a new three-year funding round in January, warning that some organisations will be cut due to a reduction in central gove…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
Producers of new British musical The Golden Voice have insisted the show will still go ahead at the Arts Theatre in London, despite having to postpone its opening for a second time. The musi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMMonday, July 22, 2013
London’s Menier Chocolate Factory is to host the European premiere of US play The Lyons, which ran on Broadway in 2012. The dark comedy, written by Nicky Silver, will run at the Southw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMEnta Ticketing Solutions, which supplies ticket software to West End and regional theatres, has been acquired by Italian company Best Union SpA. Enta was formerly part of the Seatem Group, b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:01AMFriday, July 19, 2013
Haworth Tompkins has won two awards for its theatre design work at the New London Architecture Awards. The architecture firm’s work on Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre won the pub…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMThursday, July 18, 2013
Loretta Tomasi has revealed that she is to step down as chief executive of English National Opera later this year. Tomasi leaves after ten years with the company and seven as chief executive…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMThe body of Paul Bhattacharjee has been found at Splash Point cliffs in East Sussex. The body was found last Friday, July 12 by Sussex Police, who contacted officers investigating Battacharj…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:13AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
The body of Richard Gent has been discovered in woods near his home in north London, following the young actor’s disappearance last year. Gent, who was 27 when he went missing, had worked …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMHarvey Goldsmith has been appointed non-executive director of Dutch producer Imagine Nation, with plans to recreate the company’s large-scale, immersive theatre shows in London and interna…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AMTuesday, July 16, 2013
South London fringe venue Omnibus Arts is to host its first theatre performances this month with a series of pre-Edinburgh previews of Hope Light and Nowhere. The play, written by Andrew She…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMFelicity Kendal and Simon Callow are to star in a touring revival of Chin-Chin, François Billetdoux’s 1959 comedy. The production, which will be directed by Michael Rudman in an adaptati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMSheffield Theatres’ planned tour of A Passionate Woman by Kay Mellor has been postponed, after its star Lynda Bellingham was diagnosed with cancer. The tour, a co-production with David…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Bertie Carvel, Tony Gardner and Marilyn Cutts are among more than 40 union members elected to stand on Equity committees for the first time. Results of the election were published this week,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMFather Ted writer Graham Linehan and Peep Show creator Sam Bain will be among the tutors on a new comedy course launched by the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire. The 18…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMThursday, July 11, 2013
Leicester’s Curve theatre has appointed three companies as associates at the venue. Aakash Odedra Company, which specialises in Indian dance, comedy duo New Art Club and touring theatr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:45AMPioneering theatre director Joan Littlewood is to be commemorated with a bronze statue outside Theatre Royal Stratford East, the London venue she used to run. The sculpture is being designed…
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Equity has successfully resisted attempts by the taxman to gain access to confidential membership records, which HM Revenue and Customs wanted to use to check performers were correctly regis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMThursday, June 20, 2013
Frank Langella is to star as King Lear at the Chichester Festival Theatre this autumn. The production, will be directed by Chichester associate director Angus Jackson and designed by Robert…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMLondon fringe venue the King’s Head Theatre in Islington is launching an award in memory of playwright Adrian Pagan, who died in 2007. Pagan was a stage manager turned playwright and the n…
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National Theatre executive director Nick Starr, Edinburgh International Festival director Jonathan Mills and actor and former Equity vice president Tony Robinson were among those recognised …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMFriday, June 14, 2013
Howard Panter, joint chief executive and co-founder of the Ambassador Theatre Group, has been knighted in the Queen’s birthday honours for services to theatre. Panter, together with hi…
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A new British musical due to begin performances at London’s Arts Theatre tonight has been postponed “due to investment money from China being tied up in international banking red…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMSunday, June 9, 2013
Andrew Lloyd Webber has revealed that he will not be able to attend tonight’s Tony Awards in New York due to ill health. Lloyd Webber had been due to attend the ceremony, where the US.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMThursday, June 6, 2013
Arts Council England chairman Peter Bazalgette has offered his support to the My Theatre Matters! campaign. The campaign, which is a joint venture by The Stage, the Theatrical Management Ass…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMMonday, June 3, 2013
Dutch actress Willemijn Verkaik is to play Elphaba in the West End production of Wicked from November. Verkaik has previously played the role in the Netherlands, Germany and in the US and is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:24PMA portrait of Old Vic artistic director Kevin Spacey as Richard III will be included in a new exhibition of work by artist Jonathan Yeo at the National Portrait Gallery this September. Space…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMA new stage version of PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster will open in the West End this autumn. Starring Matthew MacFadyen and Stephen Mangan respectively as the titular pair, the new …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AMThursday, May 30, 2013
Five actors have won an employment tribunal that ruled they should be paid the national minimum wage for a fringe theatre show, despite the engagement having been advertised as profit share.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, May 29, 2013
BECTU is at loggerheads with the National Theatre over the venue’s proposals to “water down” its relationship with the backstage union. NT officials have written to BECTU saying they w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMFriday, May 24, 2013
How many professional theatres are there in London? You don’t know? Don’t worry, you are not alone. I am currently in the midst of writing a report commissioned by the Society of London …
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