Monday, April 23, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Southwark Playhouse, London: It might sound obtuse to say that a play about the Lebanon hostage crisis is funny. But Frank McGuinness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me is really funny …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AM[SHARE]Rupert Goold will no longer direct Troilus and Cressida for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Wooster Group as planned this summer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
David Bedella and Sara Kestelman have been cast in Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AM[SHARE]Gareth Gates and Lil' Chris are to star in the premiere of new musical Loserville at West Yorkshire Playhouse later this year.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Daniel Buckroyd and Theresa Veith have been appointed artistic director and executive director of Colchester's Mercury Theatre respectively.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Michael Attenborough, the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, is to be presented with the Award for Excellence in International Theatre later today.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2012
Olympic gold medallist Robin Cousins is to star as Billy Flynn in Chicago in the West End while the games are held in London this summer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2012
Matilda the Musical swept the board at the Olivier Awards this evening, setting a new record for the number of wins by a single show.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:34PM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2012
Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of the National Theatre, has said that the government's claims that some wealthy individuals give money to charities as a means of tax avoidance are "f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AM[SHARE]The Musicians' Union is urging performers not to work for free at either the London Olympics or the Queen's Jubilee celebrations this summer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AM[SHARE]Royal Ballet principal dancer Tamara Rojo has been appointed artistic director of English National Ballet.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2012
Shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman has written to her government counterpart Jeremy Hunt asking him to "stand up for the arts" and to reconsider the cap on tax relief for charitable don…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:58PM[SHARE]Audiences are being faced with additional booking charges costing up to £12.25 when buying tickets for West End shows online, The Stage can reveal.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:29AM[SHARE]Tickets for the best seats in the West End now cost more than £70, with the cheapest priced at just under £22 on average including fees.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AM[SHARE]Russian theatre company Vakhtangov is to stage its production of Uncle Vanya in the West End this autumn.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Outgoing director of the Royal Ballet Monica Mason is to be given a special prize at the Olivier Awards this weekend.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2012
Almost 7,000 young people went to the theatre for the first time as a result of a Labour initiative offering free tickets for under-26s, but a "significant proportion" of the 400,000 tickets…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Theatre Set-Up, an outdoor Shakespeare touring company that was due to close, has been taken over by the Gloucestershire-based Festival Players.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PM[SHARE]Senior broadcasting figure Peter Bazalgette is to be the new chairman of English National Opera, it was announced today.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PM[SHARE]Michelle Carwardine-Palmer has been appointed director of administration and development for National Theatre Wales, meaning she is to leave her post as executive director as Salisbury Playh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2012
Camden Council has axed its funding to Hampstead Theatre, while increasing the rates the venue must pay it.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Former X Factor winner Joe McElderry is to appear in Coronation Street musical Street of Dreams when the production plays Newcastle.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AM[SHARE]The Theatres Trust has welcomed the finalised National Planning Policy Framework, which includes provisions for culture that it claimed had been ignored in previous drafts.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
English Touring Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse are to stage a revival of The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard to mark the play's 30th anniversary.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2012
An inquiry into participation in the arts has been launched by the National Assembly for Wales in response to concerns that budget cuts are having a negative impact on access to culture.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AM[SHARE]The original pronunciation of some of Shakespeare's most famous scenes has been captured for the first time on CD.
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