
Dublin's Focus Theatre has gone dark on the eve of its 50th anniversary in May 2013.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:44AM[SHARE]A £180,000 award from the Big Lottery Fund is to be used to create six new performing groups in Northern Ireland aimed at involving participants aged 60 and over.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AM[SHARE]The Northern Ireland Executive has awarded an additional £12.6 million to organisers of next year's City of Culture programme in Derry/Londonderry.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:23AM[SHARE]The director of Northern Ireland's largest arts event, the Belfast Festival at Queen's, has resigned after less than six months in post.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:05AM[SHARE]America's leading weekly entertainment news publication Variety and its online operations are to be sold by current owners Reed Business Information.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]Almost £8,000 owed to two actors by a leading Northern Irish talent agency has been recovered following a prosecution led by the Department for Employment and Learning.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:56AM[SHARE]A World Actors Forum originally planned to take place in Dublin in 2014 will now be staged in the city next year, Ireland's deputy prime minister Eamon Gilmore has revealed.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:47AM[SHARE]The songwriter Robert B Sherman has died at the age of 86.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:01AM[SHARE]Actor Philip Madoc has died at the age of 77.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AM[SHARE]Oxford University is to receive a £26 million donation to establish student scholarships in the humanities from Mica Ertegun, a New York-based interior designer and widow of Atlantic R…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:36AM[SHARE]Davy Jones, the British-born child actor-turned-pop star with The Monkees, has died at the age of 66.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AM[SHARE]Inaugural productions by two of Northern Ireland's leading theatre and opera companies have been recognised in the 2012 Irish Times Theatre Awards.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AM[SHARE]English National Opera is to launch a global online talent search for new composers, writers and filmmakers in an initiative seeking to "create the future of opera".
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:31AM[SHARE]The Northern Ireland Assembly has given a one-year reprieve to the Laganside Arts Grant with a one-off cash injection of £250,000 less than a week after announcing it was to close in M…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AM[SHARE]Operating losses at the Cork Opera House almost trebled in 2010/11 to more than €825,000 (£692,000) following a drop of more than a fifth in revenues to €3.84 million (&pou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM[SHARE]David Kelly, one of Ireland's most recognisable and successful actors, has died at the age of 82.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AM[SHARE]Act Productions, co-producers of West End shows Legally Blonde the Musical and Flare Path, and Prosper Capital LLP have launched a new "innovative" theatre investment scheme.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AM[SHARE]EMI, the last of Britain's recording labels to be able to claim a global reach, is to be split up and sold in its 80th-anniversary year to French and Japanese competitors.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AM[SHARE]Ambassador Theatre Group has launched "the UK's biggest theatre membership scheme".
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AM[SHARE]The Society of Ticket Agencies and Retailers has re-branded and re-launched its "industry kitemark" scheme to combat the problem of ticket fraud and rogue retailers.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AM[SHARE]Laurence Olivier Awards sponsor MasterCard has launched a new campaign offering its credit, debit and pre-paid card users "one of a kind experiences" and exclusive offers for London's theatr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:21AM[SHARE]West End Theatre Bookings has been sold to Encore Tickets, the UK's largest independent ticket wholesaler, for £10.9 million by its Cheshire-based owners Holidaybreak.
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