Minister for the arts Ed Vaizey has accused Labour's shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman of 'concocting' a rumour that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is set to be abolished.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMThe stage musical adaptation of The Bodyguard will open in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre in December.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AMCovering McKellen - An Understudy's Tale by David Weston has won this year's Theatre Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Theatre Research.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMHampstead Theatre has revealed that it will be forced to close its education department at the end of this academic year, following a 100% cut to its funding from Camden council.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:34PMAmbassador Theatre Group has introduced a revised booking fee structure across its network of regional venues, which will see between £1.90 and £4.90 added to the face value of e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMSheffield Theatres' revival of Democracy by Michael Frayn will transfer to London's Old Vic Theatre this June.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:44AMCulture secretary Jeremy Hunt has defended his behaviour in his handling of News Corporation's bid for BSkyB, insisting that he acted with "scrupulous fairness" throughout.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMWest End musical Wicked has picked up three prizes at the inaugural Mousetraps, a new set of awards voted for by young people.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMSmash and Spooks star Raza Jaffrey is to play Billy Flynn in the West End production of Chicago.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMHeadlong artistic director Rupert Goold has announced the touring company's 2012 season of work, including a new stage musical version of the novel American Psycho.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMSam Pritchard has been awarded the 2012 James Menzies-Kitchin Young Director Award.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMIce-skater Robin Cousins is to star in Chicago, while Chariots of Fire races to the Gielgud in time for the GamesOlympic meddlingAfter the glitz of last weekend's Olivier awards, London's We…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMThe National Theatre, Royal Opera House and Royal Albert Hall have clubbed together to form an energy-buying collective that will enable them to purchase electricity at lower rates.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMThe stage version of The King's Speech will close in the West End on May 12, after a run of less than eight weeks at Wyndham's Theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:55AMPop-up company Theatre Delicatessen is to take over the former BBC London offices in Marylebone for an immersive staging of Henry V this summer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMThe new stage version of Chariots of Fire will transfer into the West End this summer, following its run at London's Hampstead Theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMThe theatrical great and the good dust off their glad rags for Sunday night's Oliviers, Tamara Rojo leaps into position at English National Ballet, and chancellor George Osborne takes heat o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AMAndrew Lloyd Webber has sold the Palace Theatre, one of his flagship venues and the original West End home to Les Miserables, to Nimax Theatres for an undisclosed sum.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:07AMLloyd Webber donates £125,000 to help theatres in need of renovation, Mark Rylance stirs things up at the Globe, and Mogadishu's National theatre comes under attack from militantsRenovation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMQdos Entertainment, the UK's largest pantomime producer, has unveiled record results for its 2011/12 Christmas season with box office up by nearly £1 million on the previous year.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's charitable foundation has announced a grant of £125,000 to help kick-start a scheme to support refurbishment projects at local theatres.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:15PMShakespeare's Globe's former artistic director Mark Rylance has become the latest figure to call on the London venue to withdraw its invitation to Israeli company Habima to perform as part o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AMPlaywright speaks out about 'legal ticket touts', a Susan Boyle musical proves a surprise hit, and Norwich gains one of the UK's youngest-ever artistic directorsOut with the toutsOne Man, Tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59PMFull casting has been announced for the West End revival of Laura Wade's Posh, which premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2010.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMLet it Be, a tribute show to The Beatles, will open in the West End this September.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMThe National Theatre, Royal Opera House and Chichester Festival Theatre are among 26 companies who have been successful in the first stage of Arts Council England's new capital funding progr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMTim Roseman is to step down as joint artistic director of Theatre 503 in south London, leaving Paul Robinson in sole charge of the fringe venue.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AMCritics' Circle and Evening Standard Award-winning playwright Richard Bean has hit out at "legal ticket touting", claiming it is undermining attempts to make theatre more accessible.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AMLyric Hammersmith artistic director Sean Holmes will direct the venue's pantomime this Christmas - Cinderella starring Steven Webb and Julie Atherton.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMOutgoing Arts Council England chair Liz Forgan has said she will be "sorry to leave before the job is completed" in response to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's decision not re-appoint her be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMGregory Doran has been appointed to succeed Michael Boyd as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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