Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Over the past few weeks, we’ve all got used to major upheavals to our day-to-day lives. Much of this change has been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMWednesday, April 8, 2020
We cannot be sure when theatres will open their doors again, but there are early signs if you read the tea leaves.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMWednesday, April 1, 2020
Theatre is a sector full of obsessives. For almost everyone working in this business, it is more than a job – it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:15AMWednesday, March 25, 2020
We are just over a week into a crisis that will represent the biggest change to our day-to-day lives we have ever
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMTuesday, March 17, 2020
The show will not go on. At least, not for a while. The events of the past few days are unprecedented. There
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMThursday, February 13, 2020
Is the tide finally turning against exorbitant drama school audition fees? Guildhall School of Music and Drama, for a long time one
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThursday, February 6, 2020
It has survived two world wars, the internet, even five years of my editorship, and last Saturday The Stage turned the grand
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:30AMWednesday, January 29, 2020
“Let’s create”, exhorts Arts Council England’s 10-year strategy, published this week. The title reflects how the funding body’s priorities appear to be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Much like the young Rufus Norris after he fell off his decorator’s ladder and hit himself in a sensitive spot, theatre finds
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, January 15, 2020
“Go and look at the rooms in which our artists are compelled to spend the greater part of their official career, notice
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, January 8, 2020
Last week, we ran some discouraging research into representation among senior leadership teams at theatres in England. It found that between 2009
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMWednesday, December 18, 2019
Labour’s performance in the general election – especially in its former northern heartlands – has resulted in a slew of think pieces
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
As December marches on, we enter the season of lists. Not Christmas card lists – in journalistic circles, December means end-of-year lists.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMWednesday, December 4, 2019
The story of Andrew Aldis, the general manager of Bridlington Spa who claims he was sacked after refusing to take a pay
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWednesday, November 27, 2019
From Jersey to Orkney, Ian McKellen has covered the length and breadth of the UK during his year-long, 80-date tour. It has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMWednesday, November 20, 2019
James Cundall might not be a name familiar to some UK-based readers, but he has been a key commercial player internationally for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMWednesday, November 13, 2019
There probably aren’t many conclusions to be drawn about the state of the West End’s historic theatre stock from the incident at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Speaking to The Stage in 2015, soon after his 75th birthday, Michael Billington pondered the possibility of retirement. “I don’t intend to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMWednesday, October 30, 2019
In January, HighTide artistic director Suba Das posted an image on social media captioned: “The class of 2019… we’re here to fuck
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMWednesday, October 23, 2019
Regional theatre has been in a state of impending crisis for as long as I have been writing for The Stage –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Jonathan Church’s decision to go in-house at Trafalgar Entertainment makes a lot of sense for both parties. At Trafalgar, founders Howard Panter
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMWednesday, October 9, 2019
It appears not. Or at least not yet. Ambassador Theatre Group – the UK’s largest theatre operator, with an expanding US operation
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMWednesday, October 2, 2019
What will happen in the Seyi Omooba case? I don’t know. As I wrote at the time her anti-gay comments were first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
Our story this week, revealing the precipitous decline in children’s theatregoing in the past decade, is deeply worrying. That the rate of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:15AMWednesday, September 18, 2019
We all have to start somewhere. This is the beauty of The Stage Debut Awards, which last Sunday celebrated another year of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMWednesday, August 28, 2019
Arts journalism is facing a tricky time – it has been pushing against a strong headwind for a few years now. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMWednesday, August 21, 2019
The catastrophic collapse of Preston Guild Hall’s operator should give many UK local authorities pause for thought. It has become increasingly common
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
Five years ago, the Oliviers faced calls to introduce an award for musical directors; today, there are demands for a casting director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
Arts Council England chief executive Darren Henley holds out a friendly hand to the new prime minister, Boris Johnson, in his column
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
I suspect most commercial theatre producers aren’t big Grand Theft Auto fans, but I wonder whether some of them might have paused
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Our story about the trials of usher body cameras in the West End proved to be one of those rare industry stories
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