Friday, April 21, 2017
James Phelps, known for his role as Fred Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise, writer and broadcaster Yasmeen Khan and The
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Musical The Toxic Avenger is to return to London with a run at the Arts Theatre in London. The show had its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMGeoffrey Brown is to take over the running of independent theatres website OffWestEnd.com, which also runs the Off West End Awards. He
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMThe Royal and Derngate’s production of Death of a Salesman, which was postponed following the death of Tim Pigott-Smith, will continue. Nicholas
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMSean Scanlan has died aged 68. The Scottish actor, known for his work on both stage and screen, died from cancer, it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMNational Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris has unveiled a major drive to develop new British musicals. The NT has formed a group
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:42AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
Outgoing Shakespeare’s Globe artistic director Emma Rice has hit out at her treatment by the theatre’s board, in her first public statement
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMBridge Theatre opens in October New work from Richard Bean, Lucy Prebble and Sam Holcroft Ben Whishaw to star in Julius Caesar
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:45AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
The director Michael Bogdanov has died aged 78. The Welsh theatre, film and opera director died on April 16, his publicist confirmed.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:09AMBertie Carvel and Richard Coyle are to join the cast of James Graham’s Ink at the Almeida Theatre in London. The new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMThe touring production of Shout! The Musical has been cancelled two days into its run, with producers blaming a lack of investment
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMThursday, April 13, 2017
Composer Duncan Sheik has revealed that he is in talks to bring his musical adaptation of American Psycho back to London. Sheik,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Campaigners fighting to save Scarborough’s Futurist Theatre have issued legal proceedings seeking a judicial review of the council’s decision to demolish the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMThe Play That Goes Wrong has announced a new West End cast. Jack Baldwin, Leonard Cook, Katy Daghorn and George Haynes take
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMITV’s broadcast of the Olivier Awards attracted an average of one million viewers this year after it moved to a prime-time television
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
Kate Wasserberg has been appointed co-artistic director of Out of Joint, working alongside the company’s founder Max Stafford-Clark. Wasserberg founded Cardiff pub
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMNorth London arts venue Jacksons Lane has announced plans to merge with its local library to create a community and culture hub.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMMatilda the Musical has confirmed it will tour the UK and Ireland from March 2018. The musical, which has been running in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMMonday, April 10, 2017
Matthew Bourne has expressed concern about the impact Brexit will have on the dance sector, but said the industry would be resolute
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AMAudience diversity is the biggest challenge facing theatre today, Yerma director Simon Stone has claimed. Stone collected an Olivier award for best
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMHarry Potter and the Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne has said he hopes the play acts as a “gateway drug” to get
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMFriday, April 7, 2017
Tim Pigott-Smith has died at the age of 70, his agent has confirmed. The actor was due to appear in a production
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMKevin McNally has been cast as King Lear in a new production of the play at Shakespeare’s Globe. The production will be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMOrganisations including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House are among the companies who will be forced
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMUshers may ask audience members attending West End musical Motown to “moderate” their behaviour if they are singing along and dancing too
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMAn open-air theatre is being planned for Crystal Palace Park in south London. Initial plans include creating a 500-capacity outdoor venue on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMThursday, April 6, 2017
Opera North’s production of Kiss Me, Kate is to transfer to London for a run at the Coliseum. The show will also
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMA new theatre bidding to be “the Almeida of west London” is to open in a converted bus depot later this year.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AMProducer Michael Linnit has claimed English National Opera “would not survive” if it did not programme commercial musicals in-between its opera productions.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Classic musicals should be revived and restaged as operas are, 42nd Street producer Michael Grade has claimed. Grade, speaking at the show’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMFurther details have been released about the open auditions for Cilla – The Musical, based on the life of Cilla Black. The
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