In April it will be 20 years since Mamma Mia! first opened in the West End and 45 years since Abba won
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFor more than four decades, the London International Mime Festival has welcomed performers from all over the globe, but this year it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMJessie, the little girl protagonist of Can’t Wait for Christmas! has been given a tempting-looking present by her dad. The trouble is,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMNo one does scene-setting for young audiences better than Oily Cart. Rather than just taking their seats, audience members at Hippity Hop
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMThe Wrong Crowd has a lot of fun with this loose adaptation of the classic fairytale. Relocated to a 1950s beauty salon
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMHuddle may be set on an icy tundra but it’s impossible not to warm to this tale of a father penguin and his fearless
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AMIt’s been four years since theatremaker Chris Goode gave us a solo show – Men in the Cities in 2014 – but the long
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMEarly years company La Petita Malumaluga have performed this tribute to the Fab Four all over the world and it’s not hard to see
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PMSmall Wonders, a new commission for the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), boasts the same extraordinary attention to detail and power
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMHappily-ever-afters are so ubiquitous in work for children that a story that embraces ambiguity is a refreshing experience. Based on the picture
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMAfter 37 years at the helm of Oily Cart, which works with ‘the most hard to reach’, Tim Webb is stepping down,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMToday is Sophie’s 16th birthday, so her mother is baking a cake. As Danyah Miller (who co-wrote the show with John Miller)
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:05AMBased on a poem by the former Children’s Laureate, this diverting show from Polka Theatre artistic director Peter Glanville and singer-songwriter Barb
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:39AMAfter becoming a choreographer almost by accident, Randy Skinner went on to develop some of Broadway and the West End’s most enduring
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMWomen are few and far between when it comes to orchestras, but a recent snapshot of the West End showed no female
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AMIf you have a child, you’ll have read Dear Zoo – many, many times probably. First published in 1982, this simple story
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:44AMLeaving their baby daughter with a sitter for the night, Bronagh and Graeme go to a party at the working men’s club
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:07PMJulius Caesar isn’t the most obvious choice for an audience of children aged seven to 13, but director Marieke Audsley’s new production,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:29AMEstablished just two years ago, Parents in the Performing Arts has launched a charter and toolkit to help theatres become inclusive and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMEvery aspect of the theatre experience has been carefully considered in Hush-A-Bye, a gently interactive show for children aged three to five (there’s a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMPart of a year-long celebration of Oscar Wilde at the Vaudeville, Wilde Creatures takes a look at the writer’s lesser known works – his fairy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMTelling a story through contemporary circus is a feat attempted by many, but achieved by regrettably few. With The Ramshackle House, Upswing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMTutti Frutti Productions begins its adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story of a baby bird hatched into the wrong nest using puppetry, then
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43PMRichard O’Brien loves populist things. “I really am a small-brained human being, and adolescence formed all of my fantasies and my journey,”
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBrian Blessed, it turns out, is a hard man to interrupt. Not until nearly two hours after my arrival at the Surrey
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBackstage skills are not something you’re likely to find on the CV of your average performer – most of them, in fact,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIf the secret of comedy is timing, the same can certainly be said of the technical side of touring. All-night fit-ups, a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMAnyone in touring theatre will tell you that taking a show on the road requires additional ingenuity from a design and production
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe word ‘digital’ will no longer be used soon, says Marcus Romer, former artistic director of Pilot Theatre and one of the pioneers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThere is a much smaller pool of people who work in dance compared with theatre and opera, explains lighting designer Guy Hoare.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIt’s an exciting time for Creative and Cultural Skills, the body responsible for preparing young people for work in the creative industries.
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