Monday, September 18, 2017
Arts Council England has given £450,000 to the Young Vic Directors Program, securing the scheme until at least 2021. As a talent
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Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre has appointed David Mercatali as associate director. He will work alongside the theatre’s artistic director Rachel O’Riordan and will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMTheatres in France are to begin screening adverts before performances as part of a strategy conceived by a Parisian advertising agency. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMA succession of UK governments have exhibited a “consistent failure” to understand the importance of arts education over at least two decades,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMA musical based on the life of Tina Turner will have its West End premiere at the Aldwych Theatre next year. Last
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Sharon D Clarke, Joseph Millson and Tanya Moodie are among the performers shortlisted at this year’s UK Theatre Awards. For the first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMClare Burt will join the cast of Big Fish the Musical at London’s the Other Palace, starring alongside the previously announced Kelsey
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMBest new play Half Breed by Tash Marshall, Talawa Theatre Company and Soho Theatre Narvik by Lizzie Nunnery, Box of Tricks Wish List
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMAct for Change and The Stage have announced a partnership to hold a conference on diversity in theatre criticism. A panel of
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Only 6% of teachers at the UK’s leading drama schools come from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, research by The Stage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06PMThe Stage spoke to former students of some of the UK’s leading drama schools about their experiences of diversity at their institutions.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMProduction notebooks belonging to Samuel Beckett, letters written by JB Priestley from the First World War front line and an uncensored version
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:43AMEsther Smith has been cast in James Fritz’s new play Parliament Square. Smith, who originated the role of Delphi Diggory in Harry
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a former director of the National Theatre, has died aged 86. Hall
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AMZoe Wanamaker, Toby Jones and Stephen Mangan are to star in a 60th–anniversary production of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party. Ian Rickson
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Learning-disabled theatre company Access All Areas has announced a partnership with talent agency Simon and How to improve opportunities for actors with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMJudi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright and Eileen Atkins are to be the subject of a new documentary film on the BBC.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMNatasha J Barnes is to star in a revival of thriller play Tryst at the Tabard Theatre in west London. Karoline Leach’s
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Joanna Riding, Lauren Samuels and Carly Bawden will appear in Romantics Anonymous at Shakespeare’s Globe, which will be Emma Rice’s final project
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMHamilton has postponed its opening at the Victoria Palace Theatre, blaming time constraints during a refurbishment of the building for the delay.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMNational Theatre audiences will have the chance to dine on stage during its forthcoming production of Network. An adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMMichael Crawford will be teaching celebrities how to become musical theatre performers as part of a new television show announced by ITV.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMA new fringe festival has been created in Morecambe, Lancashire, in a revived music hall in the seaside town. The organisation, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMThursday, September 7, 2017
John R Wilkinson has been announced as the recipient of the Genesis Futures Directors Award for 2018. He will direct a production
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:33PMAngels in America has confirmed a transfer to Broadway in spring 2018. The National Theatre production, which closed August 19, will transfer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:43AMCast members from the National Theatre’s production of Follies and Dreamgirls in the West End have been announced as the performers for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMCabaret show La Soiree is to have its first West End run later this year, playing at the Aldwych Theatre. The production
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMCareers event TheatreCraft has announced The Stage associate editor Lyn Gardner as its 2017 ambassador. TheatreCraft is a free, annual event for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMJennifer Saunders, Samantha Spiro and Kevin Bishop are to star in Kathy Burke’s forthcoming production of Lady Windermere’s Fan in the West
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Full casting has been announced for Mike Bartlett’s new play Albion at the Almeida Theatre in London. Nigel Betts, Edyta Budnik, Christopher
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMThe new artistic director of the Royal Opera has revealed plans to introduce £10 tickets to audiences prepared to sit on the
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