Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Andrew Lloyd Webber has become the latest theatre producer to call on the government to extend tax breaks to the theatre sector, warning that the UK's "vast creative potential is being stran…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMMonday, July 9, 2012
Nick Payne has been announced as the second recipient of the Harold Pinter Playwright's Award, introduced last year to support a new commission at London's Royal Court Theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMFriday, July 6, 2012
Rebranded London Hippodrome relaunches, but many more historic buildings are at risk – plus Boris Johnson gets on his dancing shoesRisky businessCroydon's Warehouse, the Theatre Royal in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMThursday, July 5, 2012
London's Old Vic Theatre is to suspend one of its unpaid internship programmes after coming under pressure from unions and Arts Council England to pay participants the national minimum wage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AMWest End theatre tickets are now priced at an average of £46.40, a face value increase of 2.8% on the previous year, according to the Society of London Theatre's Box Office Data Report…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:38AMSeventeen venues across the UK have been added to the Theatre Buildings at Risk Register, including the Theatre Royal Margate, Darlington Arts Centre and the Warehouse Theatre in Croydon.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:29AMMonday, July 2, 2012
London's Lyric Hammersmith has announced its autumn/winter season, featuring a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMFriday, June 29, 2012
Girl power puts West End musical Viva Forever! in the spotlight, Britain's Got Talent winner turns his paw to Dick Whittington, and Michael McIntyre's fringe prices are no laughing matterPho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:11AMThursday, June 28, 2012
Superstar, the ITV talent show to find a lead for Andrew Lloyd Webber's revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, will launch next week.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMSt James Theatre, the long-awaited replacement for the Westminster Theatre which was demolished in 2002, will open this September with a new play by Sandy Toksvig and a musical created by Jo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Equity's ruling council has agreed to a streamlined democratic structure for the union, which will now be put to a referendum of its members.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMCulture secretary Jeremy Hunt has proposed that digital arts channel The Space become a permanent venture, with funded cultural organisations required to provide content for it as part of th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMMonday, June 25, 2012
The National Theatre's Frankenstein is to be shown in a cinema in Beijing, marking the first time one of the NT's productions has been screened in China.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMFriday, June 22, 2012
Theatreland enjoys heartening box-office figures in early 2012, but students are staying away from drama schools. It's still a good year for Sir Michael Boyd, thoughSpring breakLondon's Thea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMSky1 has unveiled a series of new drama and comedy commisions, including an eight-part drama series from Lucy Kirkwood.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:13AMThursday, June 21, 2012
London theatres have posted strong results for the first quarter of 2012, with attendances up by 11% on the same period last year, driven by an especially strong performance by plays.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:06AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
London's Old Vic Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company are among 34 arts organisations sharing funds from a new £56 million government scheme designed to kick-start endowments in t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMMonday, June 18, 2012
Indhu Rubasingham has announced her first season as artistic director of The Tricycle in London, launching with a new play about 19th century black actor Ira Aldridge, played by Adrian Leste…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AMA new stage musical version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is to open at the London Palladium in June 2013.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:06AMFriday, June 15, 2012
Paris cabaret Crazy Horse is to perform in London this September in a purpose-built spiegeltent on the South Bank.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMJudi Dench, Daniel Radcliffe and Jude Law set for West End stage, Max Stafford-Clark opens up rehearsals and a French ballet company hatches a plan for Swan Lake with real swansGalacticosA v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AMMichael Grandage has announced his first project after leaving the Donmar Warehouse - a 15-month season of work in the West End with casts including Judi Dench, Daniel Radcliffe, Simon Russe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:44AMThursday, June 14, 2012
Internet communications company Skype has signed a deal with Qdos Entertainment to sponsor the producer's 24 pantomimes across the UK this Christmas.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMTwo of the UK's foremost performing arts training organisations have merged to create a body responsible for championing and improving drama training at all levels across the country.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMTuesday, June 12, 2012
Don Warrington and Gwen Taylor are to star in a UK tour of Driving Miss Daisy, following the play's recent revival in the West End.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AMSheridan Smith will play the title role in a revival of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen at London's Old Vic Theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMFriday, June 8, 2012
Curtain theatre is unearthed in east London, a Burmese political comedian is to play his first UK gig and Brits on Broadway get ready to take on the TonysCurtain upThe remains of the London …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMRowan Atkinson is to star in the West End revival of Quartermaine's Terms by Simon Gray.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMBroadway musical The Book of Mormon will transfer to the West End in February 2013, producers have announced.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:51AMThursday, June 7, 2012
Tony Christie, Janie Dee and Miss Polly Rae will be among the first acts to perform at the London Hippodrome when the site reopens as a casino in July.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMFriday, June 1, 2012
David Hasselhoff is set to star in a one-man show at Edinburgh this summer, Broadway shows there's no business like box-office business, and politics takes centre stage at the GlobeBigger an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AM 
