The Union Theatre in London is launching a youth programme that will offer weekly performance classes. Bonnie Langford and Anna-Jane Casey have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:34AMMike Bartlett, James Graham, Alice Birch and Duncan Macmillan are among 90 writers whose plays feature on a new app being launched
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMHall for Cornwall has been given £5 million from Arts Council England as it prepares to begin a major overhaul of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMHull’s 2017 UK City of Culture programme has announced a £3 million partnership with the Heritage Lottery Fund. HLF has become a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PMApril de Angelis and Barney Norris are among six writers commissioned to write new plays for the Bush Theatre’s off-site production This
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMThe Donmar Warehouse is to build a new temporary theatre in King’s Cross, where it will stage the final production of Phyllida
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMAmerican actor Jesse Eisenberg has praised public funding for theatre in Britain, claiming it allows the industry to stage more “obscure” plays
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMPoole arts centre Lighthouse is to shut its door for four months this summer as it begins work on a £5.3 million
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:27AMEquity has said it will pursue more directors to join the union, after an admission that it has historically failed people working
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMMaxine Peake is to play Blanche DuBois in a new production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Peake will take the lead role
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMArts Council England is to face renewed pressure over its funding of opera, after performers called for increased efforts to protect the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMNext year will be Equity’s dedicated year of variety, circus and entertainment, as part of a move that will see the union
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AMOrganisations working under Equity agreements will now be called on to explicitly promote inclusive casting policies. The move follows a motion passed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMPeople, Places and Things playwright Duncan Macmillan has become the latest high-profile industry figure to claim he cannot afford tickets to West
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMMusicals Show Boat is to close in the West End four months earlier than planned. The musical, which opened at the New
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMArts figures including Tamara Rojo and Arlene Phillips have signed a letter condemning government plans for the English Baccalaureate, calling on education
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMA new mobile arts hub in north London will launch next month, with a clown festival described as the first of its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMThe Welsh artist has collaborated with theatre and dance companies of all sizes. Georgia Snow finds out about his latest project, Digging for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMWhen Starlight Express closed in the West End in 2002 it had clocked up 7,409 performances. In Germany, the musical has so
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMArchaeologists excavating the playhouse where Romeo and Juliet was first staged have found artefacts that could have been used during the iconic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:34PMAmbassador Theatre Group co-founders Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire are stepping down as joint chief executives to be replaced by a corporate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMDance company BalletBoyz has launched a new learning scheme offering free video content to schools. Filmed in rehearsals and classes with company
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe is “the Olympics of the arts world”, the co-director of entertainment company Underbelly has claimed. Ed Bartlam, who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMNew Zealander Nicholas Afoa has joined the London cast of The Lion King, in only his second professional theatre engagement. A former
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMMark Cornell has been announced as the new chief executive of Ambassador Theatre Group, replacing co-founders Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire. Cornell
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMTheatre risks failing to replenish its ageing audiences with a new generation because young people are looking to other art forms, research
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMLisa Spirling has been appointed artistic director of Theatre503 in south London. Spirling will replace Paul Robinson, who is leaving the new-writing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMBillie Piper is to star in a new play based on Federico Garcia Lorca’s Yerma, at the Young Vic. Piper will play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMEnglish National Opera’s chorus has beaten singers from across the globe to win the chorus award at this year’s International Opera Awards.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:01AMJessica Brown Findlay and Freddie Fox have been nominated for the 2015 Ian Charleson Awards. Set up to commemorate the life and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:01AMGuildford School of Acting student Courtney Bowman has been named the 2016 Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year. The inaugural
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