A new musical based on the story of Ike and Tina Turner and featuring their music will premiere at the Hackney Empire this April.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMNorth London's Almeida Theatre has appointed Lucy Morrison as its new artistic associate.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AMBristol Old Vic, Shakespeare's Globe and Sadler's Wells will be among the first companies to create theatre content for a new online arts channel being launched by Arts Council England and t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMMichael Brazier has been appointed to succeed Holly Kendrick as director of the National Student Drama Festival.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMMatt Rees has won this year's Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Award given out at Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMStage version of Oscar-winning film transfers to Wyndham's Theatre, Ken Livingstone sells us an Oyster card with a theatrical twist, and Wales gives Frankie Boyle the bootHaving started its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMJames Brining will succeed Ian Brown as artistic director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMLong-standing attempts to create a new 'skills-based' pay agreement for technical staff in the West End have been put on hold, after BECTU and the Society of London Theatre failed to reach a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMChildren at up to 3,000 secondary schools across the UK will be able to watch a Royal Shakespeare Company production broadcast 'as live' into their classrooms this summer, through an initiat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:10AMArts Council England is expected to have around £160 million of extra funding at its disposal over the next five years, thanks to increased National Lottery ticket sales, culture minis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:07PMBarbara Eifler is to step down as executive director of the Stage Management Association after 13 years in post.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMOpera impresario Raymond Gubbay has become the latest Theatreland figure to express his concerns about the potential effect of the London 2012 Olympics on theatre attendance in the capital.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMThe Stage's Alistair Smith rounds up the week in theatre – from three productions of The Great Gatsby to the funniest joke of 2011, plus the best theatrical tweetersGreat GatsbiesYou wait …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AMDirty Dancing is to extend its UK tour into the summer of 2013, with producers announcing five more dates.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMMatt Smith has been appointed as patron of the Royal Court's Young Writers Festival.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMChristopher Eccleston has been cast in the National Theatre's forthcoming production of Antigone.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMA replacement for the old Westminster Theatre will finally open this autumn, following a protracted and sometimes bitter decade-long battle to create a new purpose-built, mid-scale theatre i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:01PMA third London stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby has been announced in two days, with a musical version due to open at the King's Head Theatre in August.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AMMadani Younis has unveiled his inaugural season as artistic director of London's Bush Theatre, saying he intends to take more work "beyond the building".
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMLondon theatre enjoyed a record-breaking 2011, with box office 3% up on 2010, but attendances falling by 1.7%.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AMTime Out Group has bought theatre website Whatsonstage.com, the company's third acquisition in the last three months.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMTotal audiences at subsidised theatres across England have dropped by 8% percent over the last two years, according to figures released by Arts Council England.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:10AMCast members from the 1985 production of Les Miserables will continue to receive royalties from the original London cast recording of the musical, after Equity settled a dispute which began …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMThe Stage this week unveils its largest ever bank of scholarships for aspiring performers and theatre staff, with 72 awards on offer across 17 schools, worth a total of up to £620,000.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company has announced its 2012/13 winter season in Stratford-upon-Avon, featuring a new family production on the main stage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:04AMLocal authorities will be able to seek advice on how best to sustain their support for arts services in the face of funding cuts, under a new scheme being launched by the Theatrical Manageme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMOne of the Edinburgh Fringe's leading venue operators, Remarkable Arts, is being wound up, owing tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid box office receipts to companies who staged work at its…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMMusicians and actors have held a protest in the West End against Westminster City Council's plans to extend parking charges in the borough.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMScrubs star Zach Braff is to make his UK stage acting debut in his own play, All New People.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:51AMArts Council England and Creative and Cultural Skills have published guidelines for arts organisations wanting to take on interns, including that they pay them at least national minimum wage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:52AMFrom One Man, Two Guvnors hitting the West End, to this week's theatre award winners. Plus Brucie at the Albert Hall and Rocky the musicalAlistair Smith
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