Friday, December 1, 2017
Musicals Bat Out of Hell and 42nd Street lead the nominations for this year’s WhatsOnStage Awards, with both productions picking up eight
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AMDerek Jacobi and Diana Rigg will star in A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong on BBC One. Jacobi will play Ebenezer Scrooge in
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Two world premieres and a new writing festival will feature in the Yard Theatre in London’s new season. Buggy Baby by Yard
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PMA new all-female musical about the six wives of Henry VIII has announced its London cast. Aimie Atkinson, who previously won the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02PMEquity has branded Bristol City Council’s proposed funding cut to the Old Vic theatre as “a real threat”. Earlier this week the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:25AMEquity is introducing a student deputy network, which will allow students to shape the running of the union for the first time.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMFrantic Assembly has appointed Kerry Whelan as its new executive director and joint chief executive. Whelan joins the theatre company from Ballet
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMAbsolutely Fabulous actor Joanna Lumley will embark on her first nationwide tour with her new autobiographical show It’s All About Me. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMCillian Murphy is to star in an adaption of Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Enda Walsh. Walsh will
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Higher ticket prices and increased sales have helped drive box office income for UK theatres up by 18% over the past three
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24PMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s foundation has awarded £75,000 to the National Youth Theatre Rep Company in its latest round of grants. Awarded over
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24PMThe creative industries grew at twice the rate of the wider economy in 2015-16, new government statistics have claimed. Now worth £91.8
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AMThe Sound of Music is to tour the UK from 2018, starring Lucy O’Byrne, who reprises her performance as Maria, and Neil
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMLivestock and cattle sellers Hexham and Northern Marts has been announced as the first winner of a corporate arts philanthropy award, for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMTuesday, November 28, 2017
As one of the UK’s most underrated living playwrights celebrates his 90th birthday, Giverny Masso charts his long and successful career writing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AMBristol City Council plans to cut its funding for the Old Vic by almost two thirds, the theatre has revealed. The Bristol
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Red Ladder Theatre Company has been awarded £36,000 to tackle the industry’s under-representation of people from working class backgrounds in the north
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMAs Hull’s official tenure as UK City of Culture 2017 draws to a close, Hull Truck Theatre’s artistic director Mark Babych tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMWhether to use the term ‘actor’ or ‘actress’ is an ongoing discussion. Denise Gough stands by the label of ‘actress’, arguing that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMCharlotte Rose is performing in the UK tour of the Sex Worker’s Opera, which mixes genres including opera, hip hop and poetry
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMFriday, November 24, 2017
The Charity Commission will not be taking regulatory action against the Old Vic Theatre in relation to its former artistic director Kevin
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:36PMNew plays by Carl Grose and Christopher William Hill will feature in the Plymouth Theatre Royal’s 2018 season. Grose, whose credits inlude
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02PM Nearly 6,000 people have signed a petition to protest cuts to A-level creative subjects at a school in Upminster. Coopers’ Company
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:57AMTheatremakers will gather at the National Theatre in London to march in support of change in the industry, following widespread allegations of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMPlaywright Jim Cartwright is setting up a theatre company to be based at the University of Salford’s new £55 million arts centre. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMAs well as working as a producer at Glasgow’s Britannia Panopticon, the world’s oldest-surviving music hall, Grant F Kidd also acts and
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Playwright James Graham believes public funding for theatre criticism could help halt the decline in coverage, which he calls a “massive issue”
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMNew plays from Winsome Pinnock and Vinay Patel feature in the Bush Theatre’s 2018 season. Pinnock’s Leave Taking is part of artistic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMWednesday, November 22, 2017
London’s Metropolitan Police are understood to have launched an investigation into Kevin Spacey over a second alleged sexual assault during his time
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMFunding offered for culture in this autumn’s budget is only a tenth of the amount offered in 2016. Chancellor Philip Hammond announced
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The Charity Commission is currently reviewing the Old Vic’s report into alleged inappropriate conduct by former artistic director Kevin Spacey. Following the
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