Thursday, March 23, 2017
Entertainment company Underbelly has announced the merger of its two London festivals, Udderbelly and London Wonderground. The two South Bank-based events will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMDenise Welch and Gary Wilmot are to join the cast of The Wind in the Willows when it opens in the West
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMActor Michelle Collins has claimed she has struggled to get theatre work because of her background as a soap actor, but praised
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMTwo national dance bodies have announced a major drive to embed the art form in the government’s health and well-being agenda. Industry
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Playwright James Graham has claimed he doesn’t premiere his plays in the regions because he fears the national media will not cover
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:38PMCampaigners in Wales are calling for the protection of Cardiff’s live music scene, amid fears that grassroots venues are under threat. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:05AMManchester’s newest repertory company has announced plans to stage all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in as many weeks. Northern Rep, which moves
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Secondary ticketing site Viagogo has been branded “a blot on the landscape” by the ticketing director for forthcoming West End musical Hamilton.
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Former English National Opera boss John Berry has launched a new, not-for-profit company that will commission and produce opera as well as
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Julie Hesmondhalgh, Daniel Rigby and Rufus Hound are among the performers who have picked up prizes at this year’s Manchester Theatre Awards.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PMWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill, will be broadcast live to cinemas in May. The production will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMSixteen towns and cities across the country will receive a share of £20 million as part of a government scheme to embed
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The government is being urged to further delay the launch of a controversial new tax system, which could prove an “unnecessary burden”
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01PMThe Verity Bargate playwriting award has launched its 16th competition, which includes a prize to develop a script for television for the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AMMore than 40 UK theatres, including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sheffield Theatres and the Royal Exchange, have signed a
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Economics journalist Paul Mason is to star in a play, which he has also written, at the Young Vic. The promenade production,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMDisney has announced plans to fund students from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds to study musical theatre at the Royal Academy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:19PMChancellor Philip Hammond has scrapped plans to increase national insurance levels for the self-employed, following an intense backlash. In last week’s budget,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMThe actor Robert Lindsay and the heads of several major drama schools are among more than 100 arts figures who have written
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The cast of a play about welfare cuts and the housing crisis will march with campaigners in London ahead of the production’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMVault Festival sold 11,000 more tickets in 2017 than it did the previous year, making it the event’s most successful year to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:43PMMat Fraser will play Richard III in a new production of the play at Hull Truck Theatre. The production is running as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:36AMBECTU and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain are to boycott the broadcast diversity initiative Project Diamond, accusing it of not being
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMWelsh theatre company Hijinx has launched a casting agency for learning-disabled actors, in an attempt to give them more exposure in the
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Actor Rafe Spall has described the theatre industry as a “closed shop”, claiming this makes it harder to break in to than
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMTouts misusing online software to bulk-buy and then resell tickets face unlimited fines under new government plans to outlaw the use of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AMHannah Murray has dropped out of the upcoming all-female production of Posh, due to personal reasons. Murray, known to audiences for Polly
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The nominations for this year’s Olivier Awards were announced earlier this week. Here, Georgia Snow speaks to some of the nominees. Ruth Wilson, nominated
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMNorfolk and Norwich Festival artistic director William Galinsky is to step down following this year’s event. Galinsky has been at the helm
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Jersey Boys has announced it is to tour the UK and Ireland again, beginning in December. The musical, which closes in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PMSky Arts has been announced as the first headline sponsor for National Theatre Live in the UK. The partnership will launch with
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