Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Emerging 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 …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMNew plays from Nick Payne and Harry Potter actor Harry Melling will feature in next year’s High Tide Festival. Payne’s new work, Incognito, is about neuroscience and how the brain works …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFriday, December 6, 2013
Industry figures have welcomed the government’s proposed commercial theatre tax relief, praising in particular the impact it would be expected to have on new work and regional touring. Cha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMThursday, December 5, 2013
The government is to consider introducing a tax relief scheme for regional theatre from 2015, chancellor George Osborne has revealed. Presenting his Autumn Statement today, Osborne said that…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMThe National Theatre has revealed Dawn King to be the winner of its Foundation Playwright award. The award, which is given to help further the career of a UK playwright who is not yet establ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMFringe theatre practitioners have claimed Equity is scaremongering about the potential legal consequences of shows operating on a profit-share basis. They have described a letter distributed…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
The Southbank Centre in London expects to quadruple the number of visits to its Festival Wing if its £120 million redevelopment of the complex goes ahead. Total number of visits to the Fest…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PMA stage adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne is set to open at the 02 Arena in London next year. Directed by Sean Foley, whose credits include the West End...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMArts and Business director Philip Spedding has warned cultural organisations that raising increased amounts of funding through trusts and foundations will become unsustainable in the future.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:27AMThe Albany arts centre in south-east London is to release a batch of tickets costing £1 at a local market stall this week in a bid to attract new audiences. This Friday the venue will...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:23AMNew plays by Richard Bean, Howard Brenton, David Eldridge and Simon Armitage are all to be staged as part of the 2014 season at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Bean’s new work, described …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMRegional venues across England have launched a campaign calling on local MPs to make a manifesto commitment to a more even distribution of public funding for the arts. Members of the Touring…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Rambert has opened its new £19 million building on the South Bank in London today after 12 years of planning. Claiming it to be the first major purpose-built dance venue to open in London f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:55AMThe King’s Head Theatre in London has named Thomas Pickles as the inaugural winner of its Adrian Pagan Playwright Award, given for a new play by a theatre professional who does not des…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AMFriday, November 29, 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company has been given £2.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards restoring its grade-II listed Swan wing and creating a major behind-the-scenes exhibition. T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:13PMNew stage adaptations of Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Charles Dickens’ A Tale Of Two Cities will feature in James Dacre’s first season as artistic director at the Royal and Derngate i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AMAngela Lansbury, Janie Dee and Charles Edwards are to star in a new production of Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward in the West End next year. The show marks Lansbury’s first appearance on a L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMThursday, November 28, 2013
Rosemary Lee has been named the winner of the 2013 Bonnie Bird New Choreography award, given to support the development of new work. Lee beat shortlisted choreographers Alexander Whitley, Si…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00PMPunchdrunk’s show The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable has extended its run to 2014. The immersive theatre company’s promenade piece, which takes place in a disused building in central Lon…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:13AMJack and the Beanstalk is the most listed pantomime to be staged in the UK this winter, with 32 productions planned for the festive season. According to The Stage’s Christmas listings, the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMA free specialist clinic for treating dancers’ injuries is to open in Birmingham from tomorrow (November 29), following the original London service that was launched last year. The Nationa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMA revival of musical Me and My Girl is being planned for the West End next year. Production company Fiery Angel intends to bring the musical to London in winter 2014/15. Previously the compa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AMA director who was ordered to pay five actors the national minimum wage for their work on a fringe show he produced, which had been advertised as profit-share, has lodged an appeal against t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTheatre503 has unveiled a new playwriting competition that will see the winning work staged at the London fringe venue. The Theatre503 Playwriting Award, which will be open to all writers ov…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, November 27, 2013
Around two thirds of the British pubic want arts activities routinely programmed alongside major national events, a report looking into the legacy of the Cultural Olympiad has found. The inv…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMChildren’s touring company Theatre Is…, an Arts Council England initiative, is closing down, following a year-long struggle to raise money after its core ACE funding was removed. The Lut…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMFriday, November 22, 2013
Writers are less trusted in the TV industry than in the theatre and should speak up against executives who try to change their work, playwright Roy Williams has said. Williams said that whil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMThursday, November 21, 2013
The winners of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2013 have been announced, revealing Ana Ines Jabares Pita to be the overall title-holder. Four winners have been selected – Jabares P…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00PMThe Orange Tree Theatre in south London has named Paul Miller as its new artistic director. Miller, who is currently an associate director at Sheffield Theatres’ Crucible venue, will join …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMWoolwich Grand Theatre in south-east London is offering free performance space for professional groups next year as part of a campaign to prevent the historic venue from being demolished. T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, November 20, 2013
Hull has been named the UK City of Culture 2017. The city beat Dundee, Leicester and Swansea Bay to win the title after it submitted a bid based on the theme of “a city coming...
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