Rambert is to mark the opening of its new £19 million home on the South Bank with a series of free events for members of the public. Visitors will be able to tour the dance...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:19AMSouthampton’s Nuffield Theatre is to co-produce a collection of nine one-act plays by Noel Coward next year with English Touring Theatre as part of its 2014 season. The venue’s new creat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMAberystwyth Arts Centre has appointed Gareth Lloyd Roberts as its new director. Roberts, who is currently producer at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, joins the venue following a series o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AMIndustry chiefs have written to Brighton and Hove City Council, urging it to support Brighton Hippodrome’s return to being a live performance venue. Cameron Mackintosh managing director Ni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMA unique mobile theatre built from Second World War bomb trailers is under threat of closure as part of cost-cutting measures from a local authority, campaigners have claimed. Supporters are…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company’s former executive director Vikki Heywood is calling on artists to “shed more daylight” on their role in society by engaging further with local co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMA Quentin Tarantino film is to be adapted for the stage by US theatre company Secret Theatre in London later this year. The production marks the UK debut of the company, which does not revea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMA new fringe venue is set to open in east London next month featuring two performance spaces that will host theatre, comedy and music events. Located in Dalston, the venue – called Ophelia…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:58AMIndustry body the Theatrical Management Association has announced it will be re-named as UK Theatre from next year. As part of a series of changes, the TMA will officially start using its ne…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:08AMIain Glen and Richard McCabe have been cast in an adaptation of Ivan Turgenev Fortune’s Fool at the Old Vic. Glen, who has recently starred in HBO TV series Game of Thrones, will play Kuzo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMMany small venues are still not aware of the benefits of the Live Music Act one year after it was introduced, according to a report co-written by the Musicians’ Union. The Rocktober Report…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PMTheatre and leisure centre operator Parkwood Leisure has appointed Gary Roden as managing director of its venue operations arm. In this newly created role, Roden will lead the recently launc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AMThe National Theatre generated a record income of £87 million in 2012/13, its annual report has revealed. The report, which covers the Olympic Games period, shows an increase in income of a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AMA new fringe theatre that will ensure all actors, stage crew and staff working there are paid at least the national minimum wage is due to open in north London next month. The 50-seat flexib…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMTony Robinson is to make his first theatre appearance in 16 years by starring as the narrator in the Royal Opera House’s production of The Wind in the Willows this Christmas. He will play …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AMArts organisations are at risk of reverting to working in silos after the Olympics brought them together because they are “fearful of the future”, Theatre Royal Stratford East artistic d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMEnglish National Ballet has announced that Caroline Thomson is to become its executive director on a permanent basis. She has been acting as interim executive director since May, when ENB’…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:50AMTheatre critics “tend to live in a bubble of their own”, Nimax Theatres chief executive Nica Burns has claimed. Burns said critics are often thin-skinned and nervous about the reaction t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company has agreed to pay amateur performers appearing as part of its 2016 tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, following negotiations with Equity. As part of his first…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMA 50-seat fringe theatre has opened at a 300-year-old pub in north London next to the site of the New End Theatre, which closed around two years ago. The Duke of Hamilton Pub in Hampstead...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02PMPlaywright Fin Kennedy has been appointed co-artistic director of Tamasha theatre company from the end of this year. He will join the organisation’s co-founder Sudha Bhuchar in leading the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMVicky Jones has been named the winner of the 2013 Verity Bargate award, which is given biennially to an emerging writer. She has been selected out of around 800 entries for her debut play, T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThriller Live has extended its run at the Lyric Theatre in London by an extra year. The show, which is a concert of music by Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, is now booking until...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMWatford Colosseum has announced Tim Brinkman is to join as its new venue director later this year. He replaces interim director Elizabeth Jones who is currently running the 1,400- seat site,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:52AMGillian Anderson is to appear in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams at the Young Vic in London next year. The actor will play Blanche DuBois in the show, which will be directed b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMEva Martinez has been appointed as Sadler’s Wells artistic programmer and producer. She replaces Emma Gladstone, who has become artistic director of Dance Umbrella, which organises and pro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMLondon’s Aldwych Theatre was forced to cancel a matinee show this week after some plaster fell from the proscenium onto the stage during a performance of Top Hat. The incident occurred on …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:53AMJanie Dee, Frances Ruffelle and Alex Bourne will battle it out to win the prize for best performance in a musical at this year’s UK Theatre Awards. Dee has been nominated for Hello, Dolly!…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMChoreographer Hofesh Shechter is to guest direct Brighton Festival 2014, an annual mixed arts event that takes place across the city. Shechter, who is also a composer and musician, will open…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMBirmingham Rep Theatre has appointed Angela Maxwell as its new chairwoman. Maxwell, who was previously commercial director and acting chief executive of Sheffield Theatres from 1991 to 1995,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AMA statue of Shakespeare, which is claimed to be the only outdoor one in central London, has been returned to Leicester Square after being restored. Westminster City Council removed the 19th …
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