Monday, February 1, 2016
Headlong Theatre’s executive director, Henny Finch, has announced that she is leaving after more than 10 years, to join Hofesh Shechter’s dance
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:14PMJohn Hurt has called on actors to support the “forgotten art” of radio drama. The actor was honoured at the BBC Audio
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:14PMDespite having acted professionally for five years, Solomon Israel has never toured – until now. He talks to David Hutchison about his part
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Battersea Arts Centre’s national theatre touring network has received £1.2 million from Arts Council England to expand its reach. Libraries West, IOU
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AMTimothy West has warned that audiences in the regions are being “starved” of new writing and riskier shows because too much emphasis
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AMA Theatr Clwyd play will become the first professional production staged at the Good Chance Theatre in the Calais migrant camp. Tim
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Touring theatre company Sell a Door has launched a writing programme for young people to create new drama inspired by south-east London.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMTheatre, music, dance and art make older people feel happy and help combat loneliness and isolation, according to new research. A survey
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMCatherine Tate will lead the cast of new musical Miss Atomic Bomb at the St James Theatre. Tate will be joined by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMHull City Council has pressed on with a major refurbishment of the city’s New Theatre, despite missing out on a £5 million arts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMBBC1 controller Charlotte Moore has been made head of the Corporation’s major TV channels and iPlayer as part of a restructure. In
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMAfter graduating from Guildford School of Acting in 2006, Eddie Elks co-founded Third Man Theatre. David Hutchison talks to him as the
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Surely one of the most recognisable voices in the UK belongs to Julie Hesmondhalgh. Her warm, deep, almost musical Lancashire accent became
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Polka Theatre has named CBeebies presenter Cerrie Burnell as a patron of the theatre. Burnell, who went to see shows at Wimbledon-based
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMActors Noma Dumezweni, Paterson Joseph and Cynthia Erivo have hailed a new database of Shakespeare productions that exposes how black and Asian
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMBilly Elliot producers have been accused of elitism and class segregation after they withdrew premium tickets already sold to members of the
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Bolton’s Octagon Theatre is looking for up-and-coming theatremakers to help develop site-specific plays and musicals as part of a new scheme. The
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A new fairytale musical written by the team behind US sitcom Friends will receive its UK premiere in London next month. Rapunzel
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:07PMAmbassador Theatre Group has appointed Eventim managing director Rob Edwards to head up a new digital strategy. Edwards has been named project
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A recording of Cheek by Jowl’s Russian language Measure for Measure will be made available free of charge to schools, colleges and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:27PMSeven theatres, including West Yorkshire Playhouse, Bolton’s Octagon Theatre and Colchester’s Mercury Theatre, have received a share of nearly £2 million to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:27PMTuesday, January 5, 2016
Equity will go to court in November to determine what it is able to do with an unaccounted-for £1.2 million in its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMShadow culture secretary Michael Dugher has been sacked after less than four months in the role. The move is the first in
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More than 4,000 children in east London will see a free performance of a dance production by Akram Khan as part of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:10AMAlison Steadman has pulled out of upcoming play Rabbit Hole at the Hampstead Theatre, citing personal reasons. The actor was announced as
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January Hull Truck Theatre receives an emergency “financial intervention” grant of £250,000 from Arts Council England. It marks the venue’s eighth bailout
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Sonia Friedman will defend her title as producer of the year at The Stage Awards 2016, in a category that also includes
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Bill Kenwright has formed a new theatre company to tour classic murder mysteries, which will launch with an adaptation of TV film
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:39PMPLAYS Noma Dumezweni – who recently replaced Kim Cattrall in Linda at the Royal Court – has been cast as Hermione in
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Derby Theatre is to stage a new play alongside its production of Look Back in Anger that will provide a female insight
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:01AMCampaigners have warned that child performers in some parts of the UK could be denied their first professional opportunities, after a local
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