Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s budget will be cut by £34 million over the next two years, under plans announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement today. DCMS w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AMMonday, December 3, 2012
London’s Old Vic Theatre has announced its 2013 season, including a revival of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing starring Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones and directed by…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:14PMSaturday, December 1, 2012
Alistair Smith talks to Michael James Bierman about their bid to make the West End accessible to all.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThursday, November 29, 2012
Ambassador Theatre Group is to launch an office in Sydney to oversee the company’s expansion in the Asia Pacific region. The office will be led by Tim McFarlane as chief executive for ATG …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, November 28, 2012
Culture minister Ed Vaizey has defended the coalition government’s record on arts funding, following a series of scathing attacks from leading theatre industry figures. In a letter to The …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMTheatre Royal Newcastle chief executive Philip Bernays has warned that a planned 100% cut to its local council funding will have a knock-on effect on the kind of work it programmes. Newcastl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
Newcastle City Council has published plans to completely remove funding to all arts organisations in the city, including Northern Stage, Newcastle Theatre Royal and Live Theatre, by 2016. Du…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:26PMCulture minister Ed Vaizey and Frances Osborne, wife of chancellor George Osborne, hosted a reception to “celebrate British theatre” at No 11 Downing Street this week. Leading figures fr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMTuesday, November 20, 2012
Andrew Smaje has left his position as chief executive of Hull Truck Theatre “to pursue new opportunities”. Smaje’s tenure at the theatre has been sometimes controversial, with both him…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMThursday, November 15, 2012
Artistic directors from the UK’s leading regional venues have joined with Olympic opening ceremony director Danny Boyle and National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner to warn that …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AMCenter Stage China, billing itself as a one-stop shop for European theatre producers wanting to transfer shows to and from China, has launched in London this week. The company, set up by Fin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, November 14, 2012
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds’ board has announced it will carry out a public consultation on the future of the Regency playhouse, after concerns were raised over initial proposals to merg…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Bush Theatre artistic director Madani Younis has announced an overhaul of the London venue’s new writing policy. The company currently runs a policy where a playwright can submit an unsoli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMThe Old Vic Theatre Company’s production of Noises Off is to tour the UK from March. The revival of Michael Frayn’s backstage farce opened at the Old Vic in December 2011, before…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMMonday, November 12, 2012
The Reduced Shakespeare Company is to revive its production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) for a UK tour in 2013. The show, which premiered in 1981, later ran for ni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMFriday, November 9, 2012
Arts Council England, Equity, the Society of London Theatre and the Theatrical Management Association are to host an event next year to address the issues surrounding work opportunities for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, November 8, 2012
Andrew Fishwick has left the Park Theatre in London three months after being appointed executive director of the venue. Fishwick, a former West End producer who was jailed for fraud in 2010,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Stephanie Manuel, the founder and figurehead of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, the UK’s largest stage school franchise, has left the company, The Stage can reveal. Manuel, who set up the first S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMDigital Theatre has launched a new service offering online distribution to filmed content created by other producers. Until now, all the filmed content available to watch online, download or…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMTuesday, November 6, 2012
Fears have been raised over plans to merge the management of the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds with that of a local concert hall, a move it is claimed will increase the theatre’s financial…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMThe stage adaptation of The 39 Steps will tour the UK next year. Now in its sixth year at the West End’s Criterion Theatre, a touring production of the show will launch on January 19,.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMTuesday, October 30, 2012
A group of British East Asian actors, led by the vice-chair of Equity’s ethnic minority committee Daniel York, has called for the Royal Shakespeare Company to host a public forum in respon…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:43PMArts Council England is cutting 21% of its workforce – more than 100 posts – under its latest organisational restructure. Chief executive Alan Davey has warned that the changes w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMMonday, October 29, 2012
Producers of West End production Thriller Live have announced they are to launch an ‘academy’ to train up young male performers to appear in the show. The MJ Academy will open on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:11PMBaba Israel has announced that he is resigning as artistic director of Contact in Manchester for personal reasons. Israel, who has led the Manchester-based company since June 2009, will leav…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:24AMThursday, October 25, 2012
Timothy West and Prunella Scales are to be recognised with The Stage award for outstanding contribution to British Theatre at this weekend’s Theatre Awards UK. The couple are to be rec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMAs Timothy West and Prunella Scales prepare for recognition at the Theatre Awards UK, the couple relate how their long success has been nourished by regional tours
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre has announced a senior management restructure and a revamped artistic policy with an increased focus on new work and opportunities for emerging theatre …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMCasting for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s forthcoming production of The Orphan of Zhao has been criticised because of a lack of east Asian heritage actors in the play. The 13th-century C…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMTuesday, October 23, 2012
A charity gala hosted by Ian McKellen in aid of the forthcoming Park Theatre in London has raised £100,000. The money exceeded Park Theatre’s target of £87,000 and will mean that the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:57AMFriday, October 19, 2012
With less than four days of voting remaining, only 50 votes separate the top three nominees for best touring production at the Theatre Awards UK. Thousands of votes have been cast for the aw…
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