Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Mark Rylance has been appointed as one of seven new senior research fellows at Shakespeare’s Globe. Rylance was the first artistic director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:45AMGray O’Brien has joined the cast of Bill Kenwright’s touring production of The Sound of Music. The actor, known for his Coronation
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:45AMFormer Whatsonstage boss Terri Paddock has launched a new website that aims to help fans connect with musical theatre stars on social
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For the first time in our conversation, Nick Bagnall is struggling for words. I really wish it was because I had asked
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Men earn significantly more than women in the arts, and the pay gap in the sector is much wider than the UK
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:22AMA children’s theatre in Plymouth that will cost £250,000, with a performance space on its roof, has been approved by the local council.
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The world premiere of a new musical set in 1950s Nevada leads the St James Theatre’s 2016 spring season, which will place
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Eileen Aktins has hit out at male actors who take on female parts in theatre, claiming men are already “overburdened” with roles
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:29PMPatrick Stewart has called for greater ethnic diversity and more roles for women on UK stages. The actor was speaking to The
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Midway through his one-year acting course at East 15, John-Paul Conway formed theatre company Spit and Polish with two classmates. Their first
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A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to help finance a new school offering drama training to young people. The training company behind
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49PMAmbassador Theatre Group has been accused of shortchanging its West End front of house staff by backstage union BECTU. The two parties
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49PMAdrian Lester is to reprise his role as 17th century actor Ira Aldridge in a West End transfer of Red Velvet. The
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Disney has confirmed its musical adaptation of Aladdin will transfer to the West End next year. The musical – which opened on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:19PMPortsmouth’s New Theatre Royal is to reopen tonight for the first time in three years, after major £4.5 million renovation of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44PMTalent 2016, a West End musical theatre performance contest, will now allow up-and-coming musical theatre composers to showcase their work. The competition,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44PMDance company Rambert has named the first artists for its new digital residency scheme, as it looks to see how technology can
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Fellowships for black, Asian and ethnic minority workers will be created in major London theatres as part of an attempt to diversify
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:31PMSchools minister Nick Gibb has countered criticisms of the English Baccalaureate, claiming concerns about the absence of compulsory arts subjects on the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMArts Council England is to help create 50 new partnerships between cultural organisations and schools in areas that are most deprived of
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Small theatre companies can benefit financially and artistically from recording their productions, according to a new report by a rural touring group.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:13PMFormer children’s commissioner for England Maggie Atkinson has launched a staunch defence of the arts in education, and lambasted the government for
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Don Warrington has backed the idea for a new awards ceremony to celebrate black, Asian and ethnic minority talent in theatre. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMThe government has published a full guide to its tax relief for theatre productions, which clarifies that live-streamed and recorded performances are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMDon Warrington is to star in a new production of King Lear at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. The casting makes
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After working as a casting director for the BBC for more than 10 years, Ben Cogan has decided to go freelance. As
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAnthony Head is many men to many people. Rocky Horror fans will remember him as a rip-roaring Frank N Furter, his seminal
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Theatre leaders including Sonia Friedman, David Lan and Vicky Featherstone have backed a new theatre that has been created in the Calais
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMSimon Lipkin is to play the title role in the Old Vic’s production of The Lorax. Puppeteers Laura Cubitt and Ben Thompson
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:56AMA theatre in south Wales may lose all of its funding from its local council, which plans to reopen a nearby cinema
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:37AMSheffield Theatres is to stage Show Boat for a week longer than expected because of “popular demand”. The musical will open at
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