Tuesday, October 24, 2017
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting has announced its shortlist for the first time in its 11-year history. Actor Rebecca Callard and screenwriter
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Summerhall in Edinburgh has announced the first set of artists to take part in its new development programme. Funded by Creative Scotland,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12PMA drama school in West Yorkshire that had been threatened with closure will reopen its doors to students in 2018. CAPA College,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMHaving worked at London’s Old Vic Theatre for more than 30 years, stage door manager Ned Seago, who won The Stage’s Unsung
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A London theatre company has come under fire for mocking working-class culture with a £55-a-head Cockney-themed immersive Christmas supper club. Zebedee Theatre’s
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This week’s production news includes a UK tour of Madagascar the musical and the casting of Ian McKellen as the voice of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48PMTheatre fans who identify as liberal can be “incredibly elitist” in their attitude towards musical theatre, director Dominic Cooke has claimed. Cooke
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMA new award for backstage journalism, supported by The Stage, has been launched in memory of former UK Theatre president Ken Bennett-Hunter.
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Ray Fearon will appear in the UK’s first all-black cast production of Guys and Dolls at Manchester’s Royal Exchange. The co-production with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMThe Broadway star chosen to play Tina Turner in a new musical has said she hopes the production will inspire new theatre
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Designer Jon Bausor has said the “white, middle-class” theatre design sector needs to be more inviting to people from different backgrounds. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMThere is still an “awful long way to go” before female writers are equally represented on stage, playwright Lizzie Nunnery has said.
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Directors have too much control about how plays are staged, playwright David Hare has said. Hare argued the balance of influence between
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMMusical Hot Gay Time Machine will run at the Other Studio as part of the London venue’s new season. Following a run
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMThe producers of The Red Lion at London’s Trafalgar Studios are hoping to inspire new theatre fans by working with football clubs.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMChilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderon is making his debut at London’s Royal Court with political drama B. He tells Giverny Masso
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Sheffield Theatres’ musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie has scooped two accolades at this year’s UK Theatre Awards. Actor John McCrea won the award
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A woman was allegedly assaulted when she took her son to watch Dirty Dancing at Liverpool’s Empire Theatre. Merseyside Police has confirmed it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMLondon’s Hackney Empire has cancelled an opera production after the company behind it was accused of “racist” casting. Contemporary opera company Music
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Actor Maggie Bain is touring in the Wales Millennium Centre production of Manfred Karge’s one-woman show Man to Man, which is based
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:08PMX Factor judge Louis Walsh is to make his stage debut in Nativity! The Musical. Walsh will appear in the Christmas show
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For the first time, the majority of shows in the commercial West End charge more than £100 for their best seats, The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMArts organisations can raise an extra 17% in public donations when they use match funding, new research has revealed. Arts Council England,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMA production of Trump – The Panto at London’s Leicester Square Theatre has been cancelled. The satirical show about Donald Trump was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:40PMMembers of Derby’s theatre groups have gathered outside the city council headquarters to protest against proposals for a new music and performance
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMHoward Brenton’s adaptation of Miss Julie will premiere in London at the Jermyn Street Theatre. The adaptation of August Strindberg’s work will
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Matthew Kelly and Josefina Gabrielle are to star in the world premiere of The Box of Delights at Wilton’s Music Hall in
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Having planned her father’s funeral when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, then finding out the doctors had made a mistake,
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