Monday, 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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Rebecca Lock and Alasdair Harvey are to join the London production of Mamma Mia! from this summer. Lock, who has previously appeared in The Phantom of the Opera and Mary Poppins, will play R…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AMChild performers appearing in BBC dramas will no longer be allowed to be chaperoned by their parents when they are filming, following a policy change by the Corporation. The organisation…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Ian Bartholomew and Anna Carteret have been cast in the West End stage adaptation of Shakespeare in love. They will appear as Tilney and Queen Elizabeth, respectively and join the previously…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMLondon’s Menier Chocolate Factory is to once again stage comedy revue Forbidden Broadway. The spoof show will be presented as a new version, seen for the first time in the UK with addition…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AMBirmingham Repertory Theatre will be the home of this year’s Be Festival, which celebrates European culture, after the event was forced to relocate from the factory it previously occupied.…
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Greenwich Council has granted planning permission for a multi-million pound refurbishment of its Borough Hall venue, despite national advisory body the Theatres Trust raising “substantial …
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Campaigners in Rochdale are calling for a new 500-seat town-centre theatre to be built to provide a venue for smaller touring companies. They claim there are currently no professional small-…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMSonia Friedman has praised the government’s forthcoming tax reliefs for the theatre sector, calling them a “game changer” for less experienced producers. The commercial producer, who r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
The Musicians’ Union has claimed its fight on behalf of musicians that were made redundant from the West End production of War Horse is “far from over”. This is despite the band’s fa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:43AMRichard Eyre has described directing shows in smaller London venues as being more “emancipating” than working on productions in the West End. Eyre, who last weekend won the Olivier awa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMStage set designers at the start of their career need to visit the theatre more often and be “obsessed” with the profession if they want to achieve success, Olivier award-winning set des…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:19AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Musicians who were made redundant from the National Theatre’s West End production of War Horse have failed to secure an interim injunction which they had hoped would allow them to return t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PMMonday, April 14, 2014
The Olivier Awards 2014 took place in London last night, with The Book of Mormon and Chimerica being named the big winners of the night. We spoke to some of the prize recipients to find̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMProposals to demolish south-east London’s Woolwich Grand Theatre and replace it with flats have been put on hold after the local council requested that the developer modify its designs. Gr…
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The Book of Mormon has taken the majority of prizes for a musical at this year’s Olivier Awards. Nominated for six prizes, it received gongs in four of those categories, winning best new m…
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David Suchet has been cast as Lady Bracknell in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest in the West End this summer. The Oscar Wilde play will run from June 24 at a venue…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:43AMMembership body the Musicians’ Union has labelled the National Theatre’s decision to remove musicians from its West End production of War Horse as a “flagrant” breach of contract. Th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMGhosts starring Lesley Manville is to be screened in cinemas across the UK and Ireland this June. The Almeida Theatre production, which is directed and adapted by Richard Eyre from Henrik Ib…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMThe National Theatre’s temporary venue the Shed will remain open until 2017 after Lambeth Council approved its planning application. The local authority has confirmed the 225-seat theatre …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMThursday, April 10, 2014
English National Opera has appointed Henriette Gotz as its new executive director. She begins her role in May, joining from Vlaamse Opera in Belgium where she has worked as executive directo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:56AMDance industry bodies have welcomed the government’s announcement that arts GCSEs and A Levels will be reformed as more rigorous qualifications, saying it will be “vital” to ensure the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMA theatre director has been given the right to appeal a ruling forcing him to pay five actors the national minimum wage, in a case that could have a major impact on the future of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
New Manchester venue Home – which has been formed from a merger between the city’s Library Theatre and its art and film centre Cornerhouse – is to stage a site-specific programme of wo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMMusicians are being urged to join a new busking campaign launched today by the Mayor of London. Boris Johnson announced the #BackBusking campaign to encourage support for buskers, who he fea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMDrama, dance and music GCSEs and A Levels will be reformed to create more “rigorous” qualifications that will be taught from September 2016, education secretary Michael Gove has announce…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMDrama schools have been hit by a 3% cut to the specialist funding they receive from the government, less than many had feared. The Higher Education Funding Council for England provides insti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMusicians from the West End production of War Horse are in dispute with the National Theatre after the organisation terminated the performers’ contracts and replaced them with a pre-recor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Stella Feehily’s play This May Hurt A Bit will transfer to the St James Theatre in London next month. The Out of Joint and Octagon Theatre Bolton production will run from May 14 to June…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMDiana Damrau and Stuart Skelton have won the best female and male singer prizes at this year’s International Opera Awards. German soprano Damrau said it was a “tremendous honour” to re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMMonday, April 7, 2014
Subsidy for arts and culture is supported by nearly 60% of the general public, representing a “significant increase” from previous years, new data from Arts Council England has found. Th…
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