Tuesday, January 14, 2014
This year’s Manchester Theatre Awards has revealed a shortlist including Kenneth Branagh, Maxine Peake and Sian Phillips across the acting categories. Branagh has been nominated for best a…
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The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Southbank Centre are to offer paid internships to students from King’s College London as part of a competition being run by the university. The initia…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:17AMFriday, January 10, 2014
South London’s Rose Theatre Kingston has reported a loss of more than £200,000 compared with last year. The venue’s accounts, which show figures for 2012/13, reveal that box office inco…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMRoyal Opera House cleaners are to go on strike during this year’s BAFTA film award ceremony, which takes place at the London venue next month. The workers, who are employed by an agency &#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:45AMThursday, January 9, 2014
Sheffield Theatres has been given £1 million from Arts Council England towards a £1.9 million refurbishment of its Lyceum Theatre later this year. The organisation will use the money to in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMContact in Manchester has been awarded a £10,000 prize that recognises world-class arts organisations in the north-west of England. The young person’s organisation received the Lever Priz…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AMCampaigners hoping to save the Brighton Hippodrome from being converted into a cinema and bar complex have attracted more than 1,000 supporters so far. A petition – which closes today …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMNicholas Hytner has revealed he is to form a new commercial production company when he steps down from his post at director of the National Theatre next year. Hytner has said he will work wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMPantomime ticket revenues were up over this festive season, with the two leading producers, First Family Entertainment and Qdos Entertainment, reporting improved figures on 2012/13. FFE, the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMWednesday, January 8, 2014
The Apollo Theatre in the West End is to build a deck beneath the damaged part of its auditorium ceiling so it can reopen, the local council has confirmed. Once installed, the deck will prov…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AMYoung performers from the National Youth Theatre are to appear as part of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games ceremonies to welcome in the teams. A cast of 60 NYT members will be involved in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:23AMThe widely reported ceiling collapse at the Apollo Theatre before Christmas has not had an adverse effect on West End audiences more generally, producers have said. The Gielgud Theatre and Q…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMTuesday, January 7, 2014
The Hampstead Theatre in north London is to live stream its production of Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line for free this weekend. Due to demand, the sold-out show – which is about t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMJemima Rooper, Sandra Dickinson and Simon Jones are to appear in Noel Cowards’s Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre in London this spring. Rooper, who is best known for her TV work includ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMFriday, January 3, 2014
Scarborough’s Futurist Theatre will close from Monday after the local council, which owns it, failed to negotiate a new contract with its current operator. Local authority Scarborough Boro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMAmbassador Theatre Group’s joint chief executives Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire have said they are “overwhelmed” at their number one entry on The Stage 100 list, describing it as t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMThe Bush Theatre, the Young Vic and Hampstead Theatre are to battle it out for the title of London theatre of the year at The Stage Awards 2014. Now in their fourth year, our annual...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMThursday, January 2, 2014
Performances of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Apollo Theatre have been cancelled for an extra week until January 11. The venue had originally planned to reopen aft…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:45PMMonday, December 23, 2013
The Albany arts centre’s recent initiative to sell a batch of at £1 each saw the majority of them sold to people who had never been to a show at the venue before. More than 225 tickets…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMBirmingham Royal Ballet and Birmingham Repertory Theatre are among 10 arts organisations in the city set to have their council funding cut by around 20% from next year. Birmingham City Cou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Theatre director Howard Barnes is to retire from the White Rock Theatre in Hastings next year due to medical reasons. Barnes, who joined the HQ Theatres-operated venue in 2011, will leave on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMA campaign calling on ticketing companies to stop hiding extra fees and explain the reasons for them has been launched by consumer standards research organisation Which?. The Play Fair on Ti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Theatre critics Charles Spencer, Susannah Clapp and Georgina Brown have quit the judging panel of the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. They have stepped down amid claims of vote-riggi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AMFriday, December 13, 2013
The world premiere of Bryony Lavery’s play The Believers is to star Christopher Colquhoun and Richard Mylan. Colquhoun, who has appeared in the BBC’S Casualty, and Mylan, who is best kno…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AMArts Council England has appointed Clare Titley as director of philanthropy. Titley will begin her new role in February 2014, joining from the Welsh National Opera where she holds the positi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMThe Royal Court Theatre’s production of a trilogy of Samuel Beckett works performed by Lisa Dwan is to transfer to the West End next year. Beckett’s plays Not I, Footfalls, and Rockaby &…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Darlington Borough Council intends to use £600,000 of ring-fenced funds from the future sale of Darlington Arts Centre to help create a flagship children’s theatre. Council members agreed…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMGreenwich Theatre could be forced to relocate under plans announced by the Royal Borough of Greenwich council to create a new performing arts hub in the London borough. The local authority i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAn 85-seat performance space will open inside the Cutty Sark in Greenwich in the new year. The Michael Edwards Studio Theatre, which is located in the lower hold of the museum clipper ship, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Former Eastenders actor James Alexandrou is to star in a production of Othello at the Leicester Square Theatre’s studio space in the spring. Alexandrou, who is best known for playing Marti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AMEmerging commercial producers will be able to stage their work rent-free at the 300-seat St James Theatre in London next year as part of an initiative launched by funding organisation Stage …
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