Friday, May 12, 2017
Winners of theatrical charity Acting for Others’ Presidential Awards include Christopher Biggins and George Layton. The awards celebrate fundraisers who have helped
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:42PMOpera and theatre fans can bid to have Shakespeare’s Othello or Verdi’s opera Otello performed in their living room. Pop-up company Kent
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:33PMA charitable foundation has set up the first ever hardship fund for directors who need urgent financial support. The Directors Charitable Foundation
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Barbara Windsor, actor Janie Dee and choreographer Arlene Phillips will judge this year’s charity West End bake-off competition. The Stage is participating
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMA new online service has launched in a bid to promote all theatre performances that are accessible to blind and partially sighted
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMPlays Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has confirmed dates for its Broadway run, which will begin in spring 2018. It opens
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMAn investigation into how arts education can be protected “before it’s too late” has been launched by the leader of one of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMAn unassuming, white, dome-shaped tent is pitched next to a former railway warehouse on the outskirts of Paris. Step inside and the
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Theatres around the UK took a record £1.12 billion at the box office in 2016, despite severe local authority funding cuts. Industry
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMTheatre is failing the Netflix and YouTube generations, according to leading playwrights. During a panel discussion at the London book launch of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMWilton’s Music Hall in London has digitised its entire archive, making it available online free of charge. The world’s oldest surviving grand music
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Noma Dumezweni has won best actress in a theatre awards voted for entirely by young people. Dumezweni won for her performance in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMVocal experts have warned that the way singing is taught in drama schools is limiting the range of styles they can perform.
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London’s Donmar Warehouse has announced full casting for a new musical about the collapsed charity Kids Company. Sandra Marvin will play the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMNicole Henriksen is an Australian performer and writer of alternative solo comedy. She is debuting her first theatre work Makin’ It Rain,
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Comedians Romesh Ranganathan, Nick Frost, and Arthur Smith have been cast in Manwatching at London’s Royal Court. Manwatching, which explores heterosexual female
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:40AMPlays Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum 2017/18 season will, for the first time, contain more works written and directed by women than men. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMBristol Old Vic Theatre School student Georgia Frost has won this year’s Alan Bates Award. Harry Potter actor Noma Dumezweni presented her
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The army is to have its own venue at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time. Promising “cutting edge theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMOne Dance UK has released a manifesto ahead of the general election, which demands dance should have the same status in education
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The new operator of revamped arts complex Fairfield Halls has outlined its initial plans for the Croydon venue for the first time.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:51AMSimon Lipkin and Daniel Boys have been cast in the world premiere of Nativity! The Musical at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Boys, whose
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMTheatre is still dominated by people from an affluent background, despite impressive outreach work by the sector, according to a new House
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMA government report has revealed that people of an Asian ethnicity are increasingly less likely to engage in the arts compared with
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Matthew Bourne has won a Critics’ Circle award for distinguished services to the arts. The choreographer was nominated jointly by the drama
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Arts Educational Schools London, Tring Park School for Performing Arts in Herfordshire and the Brit School in Croydon have been named among
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMPlays Casting has been announced for the production of Anatomy of a Suicide at London’s Royal Court Theatre. The play will run
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMActivists have invaded the stage at a Royal Shakespeare Company performance in protest of its renewed five-year sponsorship deal with oil company
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A family-run care home has built a 1930s-style theatre in its basement to allow residents to “enjoy the things they used to”.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:31AMActors and other freelance theatre professionals are “very pleased” to see the government’s controversial Making Tax Digital reforms dropped after unions lobbied
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Producers are being urged to adjust the timetables of touring shows to support employees who are parents. Campaigning group Parents in the
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