Josh Roche has won the 2017 James Menzies-Kitchin Young Director award. He wins a prize of £25,000 and will direct a production
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:05PMA new card detailing what questions it is illegal to ask at an audition is to be created after actors complained they
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMBeautiful – The Carole King Musical is to close in the West End after running for two and a half years. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:15AMThe National Theatre has launched a new podcast series featuring actor Harriet Walter, NT director Rufus Norris and politician Ed Miliband. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMSocial and economic mobility is to be given a renewed focus on Equity’s national agenda, with its equality and diversity officers taking
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMEquity has launched a stinging attack on Arts Council England’s diversity monitoring strategy, claiming the detail and transparency being provided is “not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMEquity is to redouble efforts to support D/deaf and disabled actors and stage managers to increase their visibility within the industry. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMThe first images of the new cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have been released. It is the first time
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMActors and stage managers have urged Equity to take a more active role in publicly challenging casting decisions that fail to demonstrate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMLabour has launched a creative manifesto pledging to reverse the damage wrought by Conservative cuts to the arts if Jeremy Corbyn is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMEquity has backed proposals to create a West End creche and to explore the possibility of a similar scheme in the regions.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMAn American producer has claimed he had the rights to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? withdrawn by Edward Albee’s estate after he
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMThe Theatres Trust has welcomed a new planning law it hopes will protect pub theatres from being redeveloped. The measure is part
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMVeteran director Peter Brook is to publish a new ’empty space’ book at the age of 92. Tip of the Tongue: Reflections
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AMLaurence Fox is to star in a new tour of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing. Directed by Stephen Unwin, the production opens
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMArts education lobbyists have criticised the Conservative Party for not addressing the decline of creative subjects in its general election manifesto. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMRobert Lindsay and Claire Skinner are to star in a new Terry Johnson play at Hampstead Theatre. They will perform alongside Rebecca
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMStephen Fry has claimed that performers suffering from mental health problems are still not treated the same as those with physical conditions.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMA walk of fame celebrating east London’s cultural legacy is to be created at Hackney Empire. Barbara Windsor will be among the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:19AMThe Mentor, starring F Murray Abraham, will transfer to the West End next month following a run in Bath. Daniel Kehlmann’s play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMCreativity should be put on a par with numeracy and literacy in schools if the UK is to thrive in the future,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMA new directory bidding to be the go-to site for performing arts schools and teachers has launched online. The site, performingartstutor.com, gives
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMEdinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre Company dominates the nominations in this year’s Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland. In the first year of David Greig’s tenure as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMCulture minister Matt Hancock has claimed providing central government money to alleviate local arts cuts would be “the worst thing that we
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMCasting has been announced for the forthcoming UK tour of War Horse. The play, which closed in the West End in March
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ – The Musical is to make its London debut with a run at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:06AMLabour has promised to provide a £1 billion culture fund and to end cuts to local authority budget funding if it wins the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PMAlison King has been appointed chair of the Independent Theatre Council. She replaces Katie Keeler, who stepped down from the post in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PMA stage adaptation of Dick King-Smith’s The Queen’s Nose and a new Burt Bacahrach musical will be showcased as part of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMThe cast and creatives of the all-female Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour have criticised the continued underrepresentation of female-led stories in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMTheresa May has unveiled plans to force large companies to publish data on racial pay gaps if the Conservatives win the forthcoming
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