Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Hairspray Live! on ITV2 was watched by 600,000 people when it was broadcast last week, making it the most watched show on
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is to allow schools to stage their own version of his new musical School of Rock immediately and for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMNew Theatre by the Lake artistic director Conrad Lynch has unveiled an inaugural season that pays homage to the “great British play”,
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A week after Donald Trump became president-elect of the United States, the result – and what it means – is only just
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe National Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is to close in the West End next
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Rosemary Squire has revealed the challenges she faced in her early days as a theatre producer, after being appointed an honorary fellow
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMSoho Theatre, the Tricycle Theatre and Theatre Peckham are among five London venues to each receive £5,000 towards making repairs and improving
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Leading drama schools have moved to defend their track record for supporting students from diverse and low-income backgrounds, after an Andrew Lloyd
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Manuscripts from JB Priestley, Joan Littlewood and Shelagh Delaney will be published free of charge on a British Library website aimed at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMTim Pigott-Smith is to star as Willy Loman in a new production of Death of a Salesman at the Royal and Derngate.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMSheridan Smith has withdrawn from this year’s Royal Variety Performance, following the death of her father. Smith had been due to perform
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMThursday, December 1, 2016
A venue dedicated to improvised theatre and comedy is to open in Bristol, in what its founders claim will be the first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMWinners of a new monologue writing competition set up by the Octagon Theatre in Bolton have been announced. The National Octagon Prize
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:27AMA planned BBC Radio 4 adaptation of King Lear starring Glenda Jackson has been cancelled. The radio version of the Old Vic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMManchester’s Royal Exchange is to stage a “bold retelling” of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, which the theatre vows will be performed “without a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMA major new diversity report commissioned by Andrew Lloyd Webber has slammed the UK theatre industry as “hideously white”. It says black,
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BBC4 will go behind the scenes of Glyndebourne’s production of The Barber of Seville, in a documentary that will be shown before
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AMLaura Wade’s Posh is to be staged in London with an all-female cast. The production will be directed by Cressida Carre and
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Chris Hocking has been named new principal of Arts Educational Schools London, replacing Jane Harrison. Harrison, who has been in the role
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Former Curve artistic director Paul Kerryson has been named interim executive director of the Buxton Opera House. Kerryson, who left Curve in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMA festival dedicated to staging new musicals is to accept submissions from outside the UK for the first time. Aria Entertainment’s From
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A new 400-seat theatre in Hertfordshire will open early next year, run as part of a six-strong female arts team that its
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A power cut in central London has left theatres in darkness just hours before productions are due to begin their evening performances.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMPeople using National Theatre foyer spaces to work risk being moved on by ushers, under a new policy introduced by the venue.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AMSouthwark Playhouse, the Old Vic and Hull Truck Theatre are among arts organisations awarded more than half a million pounds from the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMMPs have urged culture secretary Karen Bradley to intervene in tackling ticket touts, claiming evidence presented to them has uncovered “disturbing” practices
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMAlfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins are to star in a semi-staged production of Carousel at the Coliseum in London. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
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Half a Sixpence has extended its run in the West End by two months. The musical, running at the Noel Coward Theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMThis year’s £10,000 Wales Drama award has been presented to writer William Smith. The biennial award is a collaboration between BBC Cymru
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMEmma Donoghue is adapting her book Room for the stage, with the production premiering at the Theatre Royal Stratford East next year.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:04AMPlaywright Ronald Harwood has claimed too many plays are lecturing audiences, revealing that he avoids seeing most shows because of the “political
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