Thursday, November 24, 2016
Playwright Ronald Harwood has claimed too many plays are lecturing audiences, revealing that he avoids seeing most shows because of the “political
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMBechdel Theatre, the campaign that aims to improve the representation of women on stage, has launched an initiative that will see real-life
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMWednesday, November 23, 2016
Sarah Punshon has been appointed artistic director of the Dukes in Lancaster. She will join the venue in late spring next year,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMFormer Shakespeare’s Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole has announced a departure from theatre, with the launch of a new film production company.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMPaula Hunt has been named new artistic director of the Royal Academy of Dance, replacing Lynn Wallis. Wallis announced in September that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMLaura Mvula is one of three composers who will create music for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2017 spring and summer season. She
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMBush Theatre artistic director Madani Younis has unveiled the programme that will reopen the venue following its £4.3 million redevelopment, with 50%
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMSonia Friedman is leading calls from West End producers for more government and industry support to tackle the secondary ticket market. Friedman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMTuesday, November 22, 2016
Glenda Jackson’s performance as King Lear in London’s Old Vic Theatre’s production of the Shakespeare play is being adapted for BBC Radio
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:18PMMarianne Elliott has left the National Theatre after a decade as an associate director to form her own production company. Elliott is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMMonday, November 21, 2016
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Glasgow Citizens Theatre, the Bristol Old Vic and Watford Palace Theatre will each host an emerging producer for a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMA dance production starring Adam Cooper that was billed as the world’s first immersive ballet has been cancelled after losing funding from
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This has been a week of big openings for musical theatre. At the one end, the premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMCameron Mackintosh has claimed Half a Sixpence star Charlie Stemp is the best new talent he has seen since Michael Crawford 40
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMAs Half a Sixpence opens in the West End, Matthew Hemley met cast members and producer Cameron Mackintosh to discuss bringing the show from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMThursday, November 17, 2016
A stage musical based on the Debbie Isitt Nativity films will open at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre next year. The show, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMAdrian Scarborough and Gawn Grainger have joined the cast of Don Juan in Soho, starring David Tennant. As previously announced, the production
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMSecondary school teachers have warned that creative subjects are being “sidelined and devalued” as a result of the government’s education reforms, with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AMNew West End musical School of Rock is holding open auditions for child performers to appear in the production. The Andrew Lloyd
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMWednesday, November 16, 2016
Stephen Schwartz musical Working will receive its European premiere at the Southwark Playhouse next year. It will run from June 2 to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AMOperators of West End venue the Palace Theatre have been forced to carry out emergency remedial work after discovering a leak that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Campaign group Parents in Performing Arts is to explore the possibility of flexible childcare for theatre workers, as 92% of respondents to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMMischief Theatre’s production of The Play That Goes Wrong is to open on Broadway next year. It will run at the Lyceum
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMMonday, November 14, 2016
Lee Mack is to make his West End debut in The Miser alongside the previously announced Griff Rhys Jones. Sean Foley will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:09AMLinda Nolan is to star in a new UK tour of Madness musical Our House. The production, which will tour from August
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:42AMPatrick Stewart and Andrew Lloyd Webber used speeches at this year’s London Evening Standard Theatre Awards to criticise the government’s “elitist” education
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMSunday, November 13, 2016
Ralph Fiennes and Billie Piper have won the acting gongs at this year’s London Evening Standard Theatre Awards, with two prizes also going
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Deborah Rees has been named new director of Doncaster venue Cast. Rees, who joins the venue from the Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AMTheatr Clwyd will offer four residencies to playwrights next year, as part of an ongoing commitment to being a “home for writers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMEmilia Fox is to star in the UK premiere of Laura Eason’s Sex With Strangers at the Hampstead Theatre. Directed by Peter
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:11AMMichael Attenborough has been named director emeritus at RADA, a role in which he will teach students and advise on the building
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