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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

White Christmas starring Danny Mac announces West End transfer by Giverny Masso

White Christmas starring Danny Mac is to run at the Dominion Theatre in London’s West End this Christmas. The Irving Berlin musical

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Monday, March 18, 2019

Director and dramaturg Tamar Saphr: ‘People say, ‘Wow, I couldn’t work with my mother’, but I have the opposite feeling’ by Giverny Masso

Tamar Saphra is to direct her first full-length run of a production, which has been written by her mother, Jacqueline Saphra, this

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Fundraising campaign kick-started to renovate theatre ‘where Shakespeare performed’ by Giverny Masso

Campaigners have launched a fundraising drive towards a multi-million pound redevelopment of a historic theatre in King’s Lynn, which currently faces an

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Cheltenham Playhouse reveals plans for multimillion-pound redevelopment by Giverny Masso

Cheltenham Playhouse has submitted plans for a multimillion-pound redevelopment. The refurbishment aims to make the grade II-listed building “more flexible and fit

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Friday, March 15, 2019

Juliet Stevenson among arts leaders fearing for international collaborations post Brexit by Giverny Masso

Actor Juliet Stevenson has labelled Brexit an “insane, retrograde step” and claimed it will make international collaborations “much harder”. She is one

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Thursday, March 14, 2019

World’s first virtual reality theatre launches by Giverny Masso

A streaming service billed as the world’s first on-demand virtual reality experience for theatre has been launched. The platform, called LIVR, aims

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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Virgin Trains rebuked for ‘appalling’ use of unpaid voice-overs for toilet campaign by Giverny Masso

Virgin Trains has come under fire for a competition in which voice-over services will be provided for free, with Equity branding the

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Maxine Peake: ‘Women need creative control over their own stories’ by Giverny Masso

Actor Maxine Peake has argued that women need to be allowed to tell their own stories in theatre, as she announced an

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Backstage theatre workers ‘pushed to breaking point due to lack of work-life balance’ by Giverny Masso

Backstage theatre workers are being “pushed to breaking point” due to a lack of work-life balance, with a “regular expectation to work

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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Exeter Northcott Theatre announces partnership with university to explore loneliness by Giverny Masso

Exeter Northcott Theatre has announced a new partnership with academics at the city’s university to explore loneliness and community. This is expected

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Ballet Black dancer Mthuthuzeli November: ‘Creating this work has been the most incredible and fulfilling time for me’ by Giverny Masso

Ballet Black dancer Mthuthuzeli November will be presenting a work he has choreographed about the struggles of South African miners and their

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Monday, March 11, 2019

Fat Blokes performer Joe Spencer: ‘The LGBT+ community has a way to go in terms of representing different body types’ by Giverny Masso

Currently appearing in Fat Blokes, which explores body types and queer masculinity through dance and personal stories, Joe Spencer tells Giverny Masso

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UK Theatre partners with Audience Agency to collect ‘more accurate’ ticket sales data by Giverny Masso

UK Theatre has commissioned arts charity the Audience Agency to collect and analysis data on theatre ticket sales. The aim of this

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Production news round-up: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie extends West End run and Manchester International Festival announces 2019 programme by Giverny Masso

The latest production news round-up includes an announcement that Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is to extend its West End run until 2020,

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Saturday, March 9, 2019

Jenny Sealey launches Where’s My Vagina? theatre company to explore women’s issues by Giverny Masso

Graeae’s Jenny Sealey is launching a new theatre company called Where’s My Vagina? that will be devoted to telling women’s stories. The

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Friday, March 8, 2019

‘Female playwrights seriously under-represented’ – Susan Smith Blackburn finalists by Giverny Masso

Finalists of the biggest playwriting prize for women including Ella Hickson have argued that female writers are still “seriously under-represented” in theatre.

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Thursday, March 7, 2019

Maxine Peake, Ivo Van Hove and Lolita Chakrabarti to feature in Manchester International Festival 2019 programme by Giverny Masso

Maxine Peake, Ivo Van Hove and Lolita Chakrabarti all feature in the programme for the Manchester International Festival 2019. Peake has co-created

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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Building work starts on ‘first new West End theatre in 50 years’ by Giverny Masso

Building work has started on a £195 million development in London, which includes what is billed as the first new theatre to

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Indhu Rubasingham: ‘Theatre criticism is dominated by privileged white men and should be challenged’ by Giverny Masso

Director Indhu Rubasingham has criticised the dominance of white men working as theatre critics, claiming it is a “power base that is

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‘Less than £400 for 40 days’ work’: research reveals ‘shocking’ levels of low pay at Edinburgh Fringe by Giverny Masso

Edinburgh Fringe theatremakers earned an average of just £392.15 for their work at the 2018 festival, covering a period of as much

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Dancer Faith Prendergast: ‘I’m always trying to push my boundaries’ by Giverny Masso

Faith Prendergast is currently performing the title role in Protein Dance’s adaptation of French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. She

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Olivier Awards 2019: the nominations in full by Giverny Masso

Nominations for the Olivier Awards 2019 were announced today by Sheila Atim and Giles Terera. The awards ceremony will take place at the

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Monday, March 4, 2019

Fairview playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury wins 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize by Giverny Masso

American playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury has been announced as the winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2019. Sibblies Dury won the

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Actor Emma McDonald: ‘After he saw me in a school play, Michael Frayn set me up with an agent’ by Giverny Masso

She got into acting after playwright Michael Frayn saw her in a school play by chance and was so impressed that he

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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Pay for female technical staff at ENO brought in line with men for first time by Giverny Masso

English National Opera is to close the gender pay gap in its backstage staff as part of a historic deal with union

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New working group set to overhaul conditions for stage managers by Giverny Masso

A new working group has been formed that is set to overhaul employment conditions for stage managers. The formation of the working

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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Creative industry jobs in London still depend on a ‘who you know’ culture – report by Giverny Masso

London’s creative sector has “has failed to diversify its workforce”, with a report claiming 16% of employees in music, performing and visual

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Nimax Theatres director to lead £31 million creative district in Woolwich by Giverny Masso

Nimax Theatres operations director James Heaton has been named chief executive of the trust that will run a new creative district in

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Up to 210 ATG staff in line for ‘significant’ payouts following tribunal ruling by Giverny Masso

Offstage workers at Ambassador Theatre Group venues across the UK could receive payouts totalling tens of thousands of pounds, following a tribunal

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Actor and writer Lekhani Chirwa: ‘Black hair is political whether you think of it like that or not’ by Giverny Masso

Lekhani Chirwa’s first solo show Can I Touch Your Hair?, which is to run at this year’s Vault Festival in London, explores

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Monday, February 25, 2019

Alex Kingston to star in gender-swapped production of An Enemy of the People in Nottingham Playhouse season by Giverny Masso

Alex Kingston is to star in a gender-swapped production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People as part of Nottingham Playhouse’s

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