Thursday, May 15, 2014
Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre artistic director Ken Alexander is to leave the venue at the end of next month after 18 months in post and will not be replaced. He will step down from his&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMRambert is to perform a site-specific version of Merce Cunningham’s signature works, the Events, at its new South Bank building this summer. This marks the first time the touring dance com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:52AMJuliet Stevenson, David Harewood and Oliver Ford Davies are among a group of actors who will perform Shakespeare’s entire collection of 154 sonnets at the Southbank Centre this summer. Al…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMDerby Theatre has appointed Natalie Ibu as its creative producer for a new scheme that will support emerging artists in the East Midlands. In this newly created role, which she begins next m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMPerformers from a touring musical have been left tens of thousands of pounds out of pocket after the production ran into financial problems and was cancelled. Members of the 18-strong cast, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, May 14, 2014
Joan Littlewood’s 100th birthday anniversary is to be marked by a nationwide event of free pop-up performances and activities from more than 80 organisations. Venues including Hackney Empi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMEquity has upped its campaign against low pay and no pay work in the entertainment sector, creating a new role specifically charged with enforcing the national minimum wage in fringe shows a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AMLeicester’s Curve has increased its annual ticket sales by nearly 130% since it opened in 2008, its review of 2012/13 has revealed. The venue sold more than 262,000 tickets in its last fin…
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Hugh Jackman, Cush Jumbo and Laura Donnelly are to star in the Broadway transfer of the Royal Court Theatre’s production of The River. The play, by Jez Butterworth, will be directed by Ia…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMJane Horrocks is to star in a revival of East is East, which will be the second show as part of Jamie Lloyd’s season at the Trafalgar Studios in London. The play, by Ayub Khan…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMVanessa Kirby and Ben Foster are to join the cast of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic. Kirby, who has previously appeared in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations and the Young V…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMSylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant’s dance show Push is to return to the London Coliseum later this year. The work, which is a Sadler’s Wells production and has been announced as part …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMThursday, May 8, 2014
Michelle Collins is to star in a new play by Martyn Hesford at the Hampstead Theatre this summer. Called The Glass Supper, the show will run in the north London venue’s studio space from J…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:01PMJuliette Binoche is to appear in a new English translation of Antigone at the Barbican in London next spring. The French actor has been cast in a new version of the Sophocles play by poet A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
The Southbank Centre is launching a major new festival of performance, events and installations to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web from this autumn. The eight-month even…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:05AMGina McKee has been cast as Queen Elizabeth in Jamie Lloyd’s production of Richard III at the Trafalgar Studios in London. She will appear opposite the previously announced Martin Freeman,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:13AMCuts to local authority funding in England have led to greater reductions in arts and culture spend in poorer areas than in wealthier areas, data collected by a shadow culture minister’s o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMPeople who attend plays have a level of wellbeing equivalent to the amount of happiness derived from a £1,000 annual income increase, new research on the social impacts of culture has found…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Jack Lowden has won this year’s Ian Charleson award for outstanding performance in a classical role by an actor under the age of 30. He was given the prize for his appearance as Oswald in&…
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Proposals to redevelop the Brighton Hippodrome into a £20 million cinema complex have been formally criticised by the Theatres Trust, with the body claiming that options to restore the venu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AMLondon-based organisations have defended the city’s level of arts funding in light of recent claims that public cultural investment is unfairly biased towards the capital. As part of its s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMThursday, May 1, 2014
Neil Morrissey is to join the cast of Relative Values at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London later this month. He will star as Crestwell, replacing Rory Bremner from May 26. The change means…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMA petition launched by the Musicians’ Union that calls on the National Theatre to reinstate the War Horse band in its West End run of the show has gained more than 6,000 signatures so far&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AMThree actors should be paid the national minimum wage for work on a fringe production that was advertised as profit share, an employment judge has found. This marks the second case in the pa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
Latitude Festival has revealed further acts for this year’s line-up, including Candoco Dance Company and site-specific theatre company Look Left Look Right. Candoco, which uses disabled an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMCanal Cafe Theatre in west London has appointed Sandra Thompson-Quartey as its new producer and general manager as part of a move to develop the venue’s theatre programme. She takes up her…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMConcerns have been raised that university performing arts students with dyslexia could miss out on “invaluable” tutoring after the government announced changes to its funding for disable…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMLondon’s forthcoming production of Forbidden Broadway at the Menier Chocolate Factory is to star Anna-Jane Casey, Damian Humbley, Sophie-Louise Dann and Ben Lewis. Casey and Dann return to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
The Royal Ballet School’s director Gailene Stock has died today after suffering from cancer. Stock joined the London training centre for young dancers in 1999 and led the organisation’s …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49PMMore National Lottery funding is allocated to London’s five major arts organisations – including the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House – than the country’s 33 local authorit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMMonday, April 28, 2014
Punchdrunk’s immersive London show The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable is to end its run in July. The production will close on July 6, a year after it began its run at a former Royal…
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