Thursday, March 9, 2017
Sky Arts has been announced as the first headline sponsor for National Theatre Live in the UK. The partnership will launch with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMA family musical created specifically for deaf audiences is to tour the UK later this year. Oliver in the Overworld features fully
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:33AMThe world premiere of a new work directed by Thomas Ostermeier and a musical drama created by Jane Horrocks feature on John
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:50AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company is to expand its work for deaf audiences, unveiling plans to programme more British Sign Language performances and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMThe entertainment unions have criticised a tax increase for freelancers, announced in the budget, with BECTU describing it as a “slap in
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A major new training programme for future theatre leaders from minority ethnic backgrounds is being launched, part of which will create associate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMGreenwich Theatre is to premiere a new play about comedian Frankie Howerd. In the centenary year of Howerd’s birth, the London venue
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMLesley Garrett has been appointed as the first ever patron of Cast theatre in Doncaster. The Doncaster-born opera singer has also lent
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMFears have been raised over the impact surging business rates could have on London’s fringe theatres, with venues warning they will be
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Nominations for the 2017 National Stage Management Awards have opened. The annual awards recognise outstanding individuals and teams working in stage management.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PMThe Lyric Hammersmith is to stage the UK premiere of Ferdinand von Schirach’s Terror, in which the audience becomes the jury. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMThe Creative Industries Federation has appointed Rick Haythornthwaite as its new chair. He replaces founder John Sorrell, who announced he would step
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Read the nominations in full here. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has become the most nominated new play in the history
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:50AMJonathan Church has announced his inaugural programme as artistic director of the Theatre Royal Bath’s summer season, featuring actors including David Haig
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMTim Johanson has produced shows in London at Trafalgar Studios and Southwark Playhouse, as well as working in Edinburgh and New York.
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The BBC is to broadcast a new documentary series about the history of opera, in collaboration with the Royal Opera House. Presented by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMChannel 4 is to offer work opportunities to 40 television directors from minority groups, as it refocuses its efforts to improve diversity.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMBrad Birch, Elinor Cook and Sarah McDonald-Hughes are to premiere new work in Paines Plough’s Roundabout as part of the company’s 2017
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMMichael Auger’s love of theatre led him to becoming one quarter of the Britain’s Got Talent-winning musical theatre group Collabro, with which
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The Kid Stays in the Picture at the Royal Court Theatre in London has postponed its opening to give the company more
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PM Birmingham-based company DanceXchange is launching an artist-development programme to support and nurture dance professionals in the Midlands. The company has appointed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMThe winning play from the inaugural Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize is to be staged for the first time thanks to a £14,850
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMActor Riz Ahmed has issued a rallying cry for diversity in the media, claiming the government should intervene to ensure that minority groups
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Tamzin Outhwaite has temporarily withdrawn from the West End production of Stepping Out after fracturing her foot. She will be replaced in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:24PMDenise Gough and Matt Henry will announce the nominees of this year’s Olivier Awards on March 6. Gough and Henry, who both
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMGreg Hicks is to play Richard III in a new production of the play at the Arcola Theatre in London. It forms
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The drama and music arms of Birmingham City University are to come together in a merger that will see them become Birmingham
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMAudience members have been banned from eating during performances of West End play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, “out of consideration for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMThe National Theatre production of Hedda Gabler is to tour the UK later this year. Patrick Marber’s new version of the play,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMMonday, February 27, 2017
Peterborough-based Lamphouse Theatre has become the latest company to sign up to Equity’s fringe pay deal, becoming the first in East Anglia
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMThe Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art are launching a new performing arts-led archive course based at the V&A’s theatre collections. Called the
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