Wednesday, 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...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMTuesday, November 19, 2013
The Almeida Theatre production of Ghosts is set to transfer to Trafalgar Studios in London from December. Directed and adapted by Richard Eyre from Henrik Ibsen’s play, the show will see L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AMActors Lily Cole, Lesley Sharp, Jack Whitehall and Jaime Winstone are to take part in this year’s 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala at London’s Old Vic Theatre. Anthony Head will also perfor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMPerforming arts festival Vault is to return to the tunnels under London Waterloo station next year with stage adaptations of Ian McEwan’s The Cement Garden and Hunter S Thompson’s Fear a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:56AMLiverpool’s Everyman theatre is to reopen in March next year with a production of Twelfth Night after a £28 million refurbishment. Directed by Gemma Bodinetz, the venue’s artistic direc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMA campaign has been launched to create 50,000 new jobs for young people in the creative industries by 2016. The national strategy, called Building a Creative Nation, is calling upon the UK�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMGreenwich Theatre in London has announced a formal partnership with Sell a Door Theatre Company. The venue has worked with the mid-scale touring company, based in Greenwich, since 2011 when …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMTheatre organisations including Paines Plough, the Royal Exchange in Manchester and the Independent Theatre Council are to host a new independent touring symposium next year. The event, whic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMOrange Tree Theatre’s founding artistic director Sam Walters has unveiled his final season at the venue, which will include a production of Dion Boucicault’s The School for Scheming, dir…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:55AMSunday, November 17, 2013
Rory Kinnear and Adrian Lester have been jointly awarded the best actor prize at this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards. They have both been recognised for their performances in the N…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44PMFriday, November 15, 2013
Graeae Theatre Company has launched a new writing programme for deaf and disabled writers with the National Theatre Studios, the Royal Court Theatre and the Soho Theatre. The initiative will…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMThe Hampstead Theatre in north London will stage two UK premieres in the new year, starring Emilia Fox and Imelda Staunton. Fox will appear in Rapture, Blister, Burn by US writer Gina Gionfr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMThursday, November 14, 2013
Children’s touring company the Theatre Centre has revealed playwright Danny Braverman to be the winner of this year’s Brian Way award, which recognises work for young audiences. Braverma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00PMTheatre companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Scotland are to take part in a year of cultural exchange between the UK and Russia in 2014. The UK-Russi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMHeadlong artistic director Jeremy Herrin has revealed his inaugural season, which will include new plays by Jack Thorne, Duncan Macmillan and a new adaptation of Frank Wedekind‘s Spring Aw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMThe St James Theatre will not replace its artistic director David Gilmore when he leaves at the end of the month, the London venue has confirmed. It is also expected that the post of execut…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, November 13, 2013
A new charity that provides bursaries for young people to access performing arts training has launched. The National Youth Arts Trust aims to help people aged seven to 25 years old from non-…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AMThe Royal Court Theatre’s 2014 season will feature the premiere of a play by Simon Stephens, a new show about a footballer’s sex scandal starring Russell Tovey, and a series of regional …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AMCamden Council will introduce licences for street entertainers from next year, meaning buskers could face fines of up to £1,000 if they play without one. The north London local authority h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMTuesday, November 12, 2013
Young actors today are entering a “narrowed” industry with fewer opportunities for work than 40 years ago, actor Zoe Wanamaker has claimed. She said this meant inexperienced performers h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:20PMPeople in the UK are less likely to have been to the theatre than their north European counterparts in the last 12 months, according to a recent report. A survey published by the European Co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AMVenue operator HQ Theatres has named Gordon Millar as theatre director of the Crewe Lyceum. Millar joins from his position as producer at Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse Theatre. His wo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMMonday, November 11, 2013
Around a third of performing arts organisations in England are seeing a major boost to audience levels as a result of using digital technology, a report has claimed. Figures from Nesta, whic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMMatthew Bourne and Russell Maliphant have been shortlisted for the best modern choreography prize at this year’s National Dance Awards. Bourne has been selected for Sleeping Beauty, perfor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMLesley Sharp is to appear in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey at the National Theatre in the spring. She will play Helen and is joined by Kate O’Flynn, who has been cast as Jo....
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMThursday, November 7, 2013
Stagecoach Theatre Arts has appointed Sarah Kelly as as its new managing director. Kelly, who has previously held the positions of marketing and sales director at Warner Brothers and also ma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:28PMDevelopers of the Warehouse Theatre in Croydon have demolished the disused venue after failing to secure a viable business plan that would see it reopen. Joint site owners, Stanhope and Schr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMNottinghamshire County Council has proposed to cut Nottingham Playhouse’s funding by 100% from next year. The local authority plans to remove the venue’s entire £94,500 annual grant fro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:34AMCommercial theatre is operating in outmoded buildings and uses cost structures that do not respond to audiences, National Theatre executive director Nick Starr has claimed. He recognised the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
Octagon Theatre Bolton artistic director David Thacker has warned that the number of producing theatres in Britain will be “seriously reduced” in 10 year’s time. He said it was “vita…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMThe Tricycle Theatre in north London is to undergo a £5 million capital project in 2015, which will include the creation of a dedicated space for young people. This new space will also mean…
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