Monday, December 7, 2015
Choreographer Rosemary Butcher has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Bonnies. The ceremony celebrates choreographers, and Butcher was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMTimberlake Wertenbaker has criticised theatre awards ceremonies for being too focused on shows in London. The playwright also claimed that small venues
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMJake Brunger met composer Pippa Cleary at university and they struck up a friendship that evolved into one of musical theatre’s most
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Alan Yentob has announced he will step down as creative director of the BBC at the end of the year. The producer,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:28PMHamlet, Kinky Boots and In the Heights are all frontrunners for the Whatsonstage Awards 2016, with each having received nine nominations. Cast
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North London’s Tricycle Theatre has been granted nearly half a million pounds to create a new talent development scheme for black, asian
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:19PMCelia Imrie, Gina McKee and Lia Williams are among actors who will perform Harold Pinter’s poetry for a one-off event at Trafalgar
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:19PM‘Mega-philanthropy’ towards arts and culture has plummeted to less than half the value reported last year, with donations greater than £1 million
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:45AMA new computer-generated musical is be staged at the Arts Theatre in London next year. Beyond the Fence was conceived and “substantially
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMPerformance artist Richard DeDomenici has launched a crowdfunding campaign in an attempt to give 20 live artists a small grant as a
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Frances de la Tour, Simon Callow and Steven Berkoff are among actors who will share their experiences working at east London theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMTheatre503 executive director Jeremy Woodhouse is to leave the venue to join English Touring Theatre as executive producer. Woodhouse became the first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMKathryn Hunter will take the title role in an all-female version of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Southwark Playhouse. Russell Bolam will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:19PMWest Yorkshire Playhouse has signed a deal with the University of Leeds that aims to encourage the development of new theatre writing.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:19PMMore than 1,500 people have signed a petition to restore the derelict Empire Theatre in Burnley. The 1,200-seat venue has been disused
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AMAyesha Dharker is to play Titania in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She will star opposite
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AMA live broadcast of Kenneth Branagh’s production of The Winter’s Tale has topped the UK cinema box office, with sales of more
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMHackney Empire’s Joanne Benjamin is to join Curve in Leicester as executive producer. She will fill the vacancy left when previous executive
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMExeter Northcott Theatre has secured a new grant that will see it receive £150,000 over the next three years. The Michael Bishop
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMFormer Coronation Street star Katy Cavanagh will star in Jim Cartwright’s upcoming Two sequel at the Bolton Octagon. Cavanagh – who starred
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMFresh from Edinburgh Festival Fringe success with Ross and Rachel, James Fritz had Four Minutes Twelve Seonds staged at Hampstead Downstairs. He
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Theatre and arts workers have reacted with guarded positivity to the government’s spending review, in which George Osborne announced that arts council
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Kim Cattrall has pulled out of Royal Court play Linda less than two weeks before opening night, following advice from her doctors. She
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:44PMCommercial theatre could not exist in its current “variety, character and overall financial strength” without the subsidised sector, a new report from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:44PMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Drama programmes will be protected from a new £12 million cut to the BBC’s television budget. The move forms part of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PMGlyndebourne has appointed Sebastian F Schwarz as its new general director. Currently the deputy artistic director of Theater an der Wien in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AMProperty booms in London are causing the disappearance of artistic workspaces such as rehearsal rooms and studios, a major new international study
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AMTuesday, November 17, 2015
The performer is a sketch artist, and one half of surreal theatrical duo Mars Tarrab – founded with her long-time collaborator and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMFirst-time writer Katherine Soper has been named winner of this year’s Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. She was awarded the £16,000 prize for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMMonday, November 16, 2015
South London arts venue Ovalhouse is to lose both of its co-directors of theatre, as Rebecca Atkinson-Lord and Rachel Briscoe have announced
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMBroadway composer Jonathan Larson is to be celebrated in a one-off West End concert in January. Best known for writing Rent, Larson
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