Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Leeds Playhouse has established a repertory company of Northern actors who will perform in a season of pop-up productions at the theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:58AMTuesday, August 7, 2018
Public voting has opened for this year’s competition to find the UK’s most welcoming theatres. Run by UK Theatre, the UK’s Most
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMAlexandra Burke is to return to lead the cast of The Bodyguard when it sets out on a UK tour later this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMThursday, August 2, 2018
EastEnders star Tameka Empson has been cast in Hackney Empire’s 2018 pantomime, Aladdin. Empson will appear alongside the previously announced Clive Rowe,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMThe government has given £100,000 to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to go towards promoting emerging artists on a global stage. The funding
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMLocal authorities in England will spend £8.8 million less on culture this year, according to government figures that indicate shrinking nationwide arts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
London-based Boundless Theatre is to partner with companies in Denmark, Greece and Spain on a project to help develop young audiences across
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMTim Howar will lead the new cast of The Phantom of the Opera in the West End, it has been announced. Howar,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMRobert Icke will adapt Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck for the Almeida Theatre later this year, which will be his next production
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMTuesday, July 31, 2018
Edinburgh Fringe operator Assembly has added four new venues for its line-up this year, including a treehouse bar that doubles as a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMWest End restaurant Joe Allen has launched a series of musical theatre-themed brunches, which started last weekend with performances by Bat Out
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMMonday, July 30, 2018
Suzann McLean has been appointed artistic director of Theatre Peckham. She replaces founding artistic director Teresa Early, who stepped down earlier this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMHugh Whitemore’s Pack of Lies will be revived at the Menier Chocolate Factory later this year, 35 years after it premiered in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMMore than half of people responding to a poll by The Stage do not think producers need to take contemporary social values
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMAcademic Simon Smith has won this year’s Shakespeare’s Globe Book award for his work analysing music in early modern theatre. The biennial
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMFriday, July 27, 2018
Cameron Mackintosh’s foundation has renewed funding for its musical theatre composers scheme for a further four years. The Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:56AMA network for black performers to raise issues that affect them at work has been established by Equity. The Change Network is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMThursday, July 26, 2018
Fears over the impact visa restrictions could have on Britain’s cultural sector post-Brexit have been raised by a House of Lords report.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMMalvern Theatres has announced plans to build a purpose-built education space at its Worcestershire home, which will enable it to expand its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMLes Miserables will move out of the Queen’s Theatre to another West End location in order to enable the venue, which has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMWednesday, July 25, 2018
Leonard Blavatnik’s Access Entertainment, which recently purchased the West End’s Theatre Royal Haymarket, has been announced as the headline sponsor for this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18PMDeliveroo diners in Edinburgh could receive their meals with a side order of theatre during the fringe next month, as the food-delivery
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMIndustry bodies including the Society of London Theatre have welcomed recommendations from MPs aimed at stamping out sexual harassment in UK workplaces,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
A London-based production company is establishing a new high-end theatre service that will create bespoke shows for “drawing rooms, gardens, yachts and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMArt Malik and Anya Chalotra are to star in Nadia Fall’s first production as artistic director of Theatre Royal Stratford East, The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:52AMBrendan Coyle will star in a new production of Conor McPherson’s St Nicholas at the Donmar Warehouse and in Dublin. It sees
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:34AMMonday, July 23, 2018
Matt Hancock, the former culture secretary recently promoted to lead the Department of health, has endorsed the idea of using arts interventions
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:56AMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Lyn Gardner has been named the most trusted reviewer by The Stage readers, as part of a survey citing lack of diverse
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMMonday, July 16, 2018
Theatre productions adapted from books and films sell nearly five times more tickets than original scripts, according to new research by the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMFriday, July 13, 2018
Rebecca Lock and Edward Baker-Duly will lead the cast of Kiss Me, Kate at Sheffield Theatres later this year. The Cole Porter
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMThursday, July 12, 2018
Equity is redoubling its efforts to address mental health in the performing arts, by teaming up with other unions and encouraging employers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AM 
