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Friday, September 28, 2018

Production news round-up: New Hamilton casting announced and first major stage production of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin to tour UK by Giverny Masso

Plays The first major stage production of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, based on Louis de Bernieres’ novel, has been announced for a UK

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UK’s most welcoming theatres include Theatre by the Lake and Belfast’s Grand Opera House by Giverny Masso

Theatre by the Lake in Keswick and Belfast’s Grand Opera House are among the 12 regional winners of the UK’s Most Welcoming

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Theatre convention StageCon postponed due to ‘high ticket prices’ by Giverny Masso

Theatre convention StageCon has been postponed until 2019 amid concerns over ticket prices for the event. StageCon was due to take place

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Presenters and nominees at The Stage Debut Awards demand more diverse new writing by Giverny Masso

Director Phyllida Lloyd and musical theatre star Adrienne Warren were among presenters and nominees at The Stage Debut Awards 2018, who called

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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Good Chance sets up Paris pop-up theatre run by refugees by Giverny Masso

Good Chance Theatre is partnering with the Museum of Immigration in Paris to open a pop-up performance space that will be programmed

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Stage adaptation of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin to tour the UK by Giverny Masso

The first major stage production of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, based on Louis de Bernieres’ best-selling novel, has been announced for a UK

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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Composer Sara Bareilles: ‘Cuts to the arts in schools are horrifying’ by Giverny Masso

Waitress composer Sara Bareilles has branded cuts to the arts in schools in the UK and America “horrifying” – arguing that access

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LGBT theatre launches urgent fundraising campaign to secure its future by Giverny Masso

An LGBT theatre in Brighton has launched an urgent crowdfunding campaign to raise £10,000, warning its output faces “significant reductions” without the

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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

East 15 Acting School tops Times and Sunday Times university guide for drama by Giverny Masso

East 15 Acting School in Essex has topped the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 for drama. The ranking system

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Designer Jessica Staton: ‘Sometimes I feel like a jack of all trades’ by Giverny Masso

Jessica Staton was nominated in the design category of The Stage Debut Awards 2017 for Extra Yarn at the Orange Tree Theatre

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Monday, September 24, 2018

Steven Berkoff backs calls to save north London’s Intimate Theatre from closure by Giverny Masso

Industry figures including actor, director and author Steven Berkoff are fighting to save a north London theatre from being turned into flats.

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Paule Constable calls for more opportunities for emerging designers by Giverny Masso

Lighting designer Paule Constable has called on theatres to provide more training opportunities for emerging designers. Constable was speaking at The Stage

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Barber Shop Chronicles star Kenneth Omole: ‘It’s always a push to be better than I was yesterday’ by Giverny Masso

Kenneth Omole was nominated for the best actor in a play category in the inaugural The Stage Debut Awards. One year later,

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Phyllida Lloyd: ‘Arts cuts will lead to posh actors playing all the roles’ by Giverny Masso

Director Phyllida Lloyd has said that cuts to the arts in education will lead to “posh actors playing all the roles”. She

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Sunday, September 23, 2018

The Stage Debut Awards 2018: the winners in full by Giverny Masso

Best director Sponsored by Smith and Williamson Winner: Katy Rudd for The Almighty Sometimes at the Royal Exchange, Manchester Also nominated: Iwan

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Friday, September 21, 2018

Production news round-up: Almeida announces new season and Tina Turner musical extends West End run by Giverny Masso

Production news this week includes a season announcement from the Almeida Theatre in London and the extension of Tina: The Tina Turner

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Society of London Theatre awards £72,500 in bursaries to help students complete training by Giverny Masso

Sixteen drama school students have been awarded a total of £72,500 worth of bursaries by the Society of London Theatre to help

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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Writer and actor Ambreen Razia: ‘I wanted to put a female gang member at the forefront of my new play’ by Giverny Masso

After receiving acclaim for her debut play The Diary of a Hounslow Girl in 2016, Ambreen Razia has been commissioned to write

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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Choreographer Sarah Shorten: ‘It’s not about doing the high kick, it’s how you make people feel’ by Giverny Masso

Sarah Shorten is artistic director of Devon-based landscape dance company Stacked Wonky, which focuses on creating site-specific movement performances. She tells Giverny

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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Lost woodland theatre hidden for more than 60 years to be revived by Giverny Masso

Plans have been revealed to resurrect a lost woodland theatre that hosted Shakespeare plays in the 1920s in a Hertfordshire town. The

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‘How to’ kit launched to help activists lobby for arts education in schools by Giverny Masso

A toolkit to help activists lobby for the arts in their local schools has been created by campaigning organisations. The Cultural Learning

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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Artistic director Connor Alexander: ‘We’re sending captions to audience members’ phones, to make the show more accessible’ by Giverny Masso

Performer and director Connor Alexander is one of the co-founders of Coventry-based theatre company Noctium. He tells Giverny Masso about its latest

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Director Ola Ince wins theatre category at Hospital Club awards by Giverny Masso

Director Ola Ince has won the theatre and performance category at the Hospital Club’s h100 Awards 2018. The awards from the London-based

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Theatre leaders back Prince Charles over arts education with warnings that cuts will ‘strangle’ the UK by Giverny Masso

Industry leaders including Lenny Henry, Arlene Phillips and Gregory Doran have joined Prince Charles in calling for every child to have access

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Monday, September 10, 2018

The End of Eddy actor Kwaku Mills – ‘I was so shocked to get this part. It’s my first job after RADA’ by Giverny Masso

Kwaku Mills worked in advertising before training at RADA and then landing his first professional job in the Unicorn Theatre’s production of

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Miss Saigon’s Lea Salonga announces first solo UK tour by Giverny Masso

Miss Saigon star Lea Salonga has announced her first solo UK tour. The tour will open at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall on February

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Google urged to stop Viagogo ‘buying its way’ to the top of online search results by Giverny Masso

Google is being urged to take action against to prevent secondary ticket seller Viagogo from paying to be at the top of

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Friday, September 7, 2018

Production news round-up: Sean Holmes announces last Lyric Hammersmith season and casting announced for Wild Duck at the Almeida by Giverny Masso

Plays Ghost Stories is to return for a run at the Lyric Hammersmith as part of artistic director Sean Holmes’ last season,

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Park Theatre links with mental healthy charity Mind to protect performers’ well-being by Giverny Masso

  London’s Park Theatre has partnered with charity Mind to introduce rehearsal practices to protect performers’ mental health. The measures, which include

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Dance and contemporary circus merge in new master’s course by Giverny Masso

A new MA in dance and contemporary circus has been launched, billed as the first course of its kind in the UK.

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Thursday, September 6, 2018

Curve, Lowry and Bristol Old Vic launch scheme to nurture work by artists of colour by Giverny Masso

Leicester’s Curve, the Lowry in Salford and Bristol Old Vic have launched a new initiative to support the creation and touring of

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