Monday, February 25, 2019
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
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMTuesday, February 19, 2019
Protesters rallied outside Southwark Playhouse this week to condemn the use of a puppet to portray an autistic child in a play
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Stage managers have complained of back issues and having to twist around ‘like contortionists’ to do their job at prompt desks, leading
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMWith two shows at Vault Festival in London this year, writer Madeline Gould tells Giverny Masso about her passion for rural touring
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMA disused 2,500-seat theatre in Salford is to be redeveloped into flats. The grade II-listed Crown Theatre in Eccles, which was built
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMFriday, February 15, 2019
This week’s production news includes a new cast for Tina – The Tina Turner Musical and a show at London’s Bridge Theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:17PMMichael Frayn’s comedy Noises Off is to return to the Lyric Hammersmith 40 years after it premiered at the London venue. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMLeading theatre companies that work with disabled artists, including Graeae and Hijinx, have criticised the decision to use a puppet to portray
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMActor Lucy Sheen and playwright Inua Ellams are among the signatories of a letter slamming the BBC for the “unacceptable” shortage of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMNkeki Obi-Melekwe and Ashley Zhangazha have been announced to join the cast of Tina – The Tina Turner Musical. Obi-Melekwe will take
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMThursday, February 14, 2019
Theatre and TV stars including Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer and Gemma Arterton have called for an Olivier award for casting directors,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMActor Jade Anouka has argued that there needs to be more openness in the casting of classical theatre in order for it
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An £8,000 playwriting award has been launched to “further the ambitions” of budding writers working in front-of-house, backstage, administrative and creative roles
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMThe Theatres Trust has awarded its 100th grant to a consortium of theatres in Greater Manchester, including Home and the Royal Exchange,
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The casting directors behind Hamilton have won an inaugural award in celebration of their work. Paul Wooller, Felicity French and Trevor Jackson
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:24PMSouthwark Playhouse’s artistic director has defended the decision to use a puppet to represent an autistic child in a forthcoming production at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AMFormer dancer and choreographer Shelley Maxwell fell in love with movement direction after working on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet. She tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMMonday, February 11, 2019
Musicals Michael Ball and Alfie Boe will both return to Les Miserables in the West End later this year for a concert
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PMCast members, workers and suppliers involved with a collapsed pantomime in Kent claim they have been left tens of thousands of pounds
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMAfter moving from Los Angeles to London in 2011, presenter and actor Ethan Mechare began a new career as a naked house
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMStaff at the Edinburgh Playhouse have won a long-running dispute with the Ambassador Theatre Group over annual pay rises, after a tribunal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMPunchdrunk Theatre Company has announced plans to move from its current home in Tottenham, north London, to new premises in Greenwich. The
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Winners of the Olwen Wymark awards 2019, which recognise theatre figures for their support of new writing, have been announced. Artist and producer
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Birmingham City Council has scaled down proposed cuts to arts funding following a public consultation of its budget. It was announced in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMHackney Showroom in East London is to leave its current home due to “unsustainable rent increases” and move to new premises in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMWednesday, February 6, 2019
London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a major trust that aims to boost the number of affordable spaces for dance and theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMTuesday, February 5, 2019
A tourist tax that is ring-fenced for culture is one of the recommendations from an independent enquiry looking ways cities can grow
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMHaving been a singer-songwriter since the age of 18, Coco Mbassi is presenting her first theatre work at London’s Ovalhouse this February,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company is to tour three productions in repertoire for the first time to six regional venues. Productions of As
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMMonday, February 4, 2019
The Off West End Theatre Awards 2019, which celebrate independent theatres in London, were announced at a ceremony at Battersea Arts Centre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PMCharlotte Bevan, head of the National Theatre’s Creative Diversity Project, is to receive a special award for outstanding contribution to casting. She
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