Tuesday, September 24, 2013
A 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 …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PMKate Tempest’s spoken word show Brand New Ancients is to tour London and regional venues in a co-production with Battersea Arts Centre from this November. The show will visit ten theatres …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMThe Hampstead Theatre in London is to stage the world premiere of Howard Brenton’s new play Drawing the Line later this year. Directed by Howard Davies, the play has been described as bein…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMA graduate scheme is to be piloted by theatre operator and owner Ambassador Theatre Group from next year to develop leaders in the commercial sector. Two graduates will join the company from…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:53AMMonday, September 23, 2013
Tom Edden is to replace Phil Davis as Fagin in Sheffield Theatres’ production of musical Oliver!. Davis has had to withdraw from the show due to family reasons, a spokeswoman for the music…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMFriday, September 20, 2013
A new 50-seat studio theatre is to open above a pub in south London next month. Based in a room over the Spread Eagle pub in Croydon, the venue will open as a professional performance...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMLaurence Fox, Jack Huston and Imogen Stubbs are to appear in the stage adaptation of Strangers on a Train at the Gielgud Theatre in London later this year. Also featuring in the cast are Mir…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMJessie Buckley is to appear in the Michael Grandage Company production of Henry V alongside Jude Law, who plays the title role. Buckley, who appeared in BBC talent show I’d Do Anything…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMTrevor Nunn is to direct the world premiere of Fatal Attraction at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket next spring. The play is adapted by James Dearden, who also wrote the 1987 screen play f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMArts organisations are “not connecting with potential donors” because they are failing to explain their functions as charities to them, Arts Council England’s chairman Peter Bazalgette…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:57AMThursday, September 19, 2013
Wycombe Swan Theatre is developing plans to refurbish its adjoining town hall to create a more flexible 400-seat performance space. HQ Theatres, which operates both buildings, is proposing t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:27PMBrighton Hippodrome leads this year’s Theatre Buildings at Risk Register, which also names hippodromes in Derby, Dudley and Manchester as the performance spaces most under threat of being …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Battersea Arts Centre, the Lyric Hammersmith and the Bush Theatre are among thirteen of London’s off West End venues that have launched an apprenticeship scheme aimed at young people who h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMAdvocacy body Dance UK has nearly doubled its income in the past two years, despite losing all its regular Arts Council England funding in 2012. In 2011/12, the last year it was included wit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:04AMAround 300 arts venues and organisations have now joined the first UK-wide arts festival for families, meaning more than 500 companies are now involved. As part of the week-long festival, Sh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMComedian Jason Manford has criticised theatre operator Ambassador Theatre Group for charging high fees on top of tickets to his show, calling the organisation “parasites of the highest ord…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
The Two Worlds of Charlie F by Owen Sheers is to tour the UK next year. The play, which includes wounded, injured and sick ex-service men and women, was originally performed at a charity fun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMStage actors in the UK are being artistically ‘stifled’ because they are worried about where their next job will come from, playwright Simon Stephens has said. Actors, who usually work a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AMPlaywrights have been subject to a “profound ideological hostility” from university departments teaching drama, theatre and performance for the past 20 years, writer David Edgar has clai…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:08AMMonday, September 16, 2013
A musical version of Anthony Neilson’s The Night Before Christmas is to be staged at the Soho Theatre this Christmas as part of the venue’s winter season. The play was originally perform…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AMTheatre critic Libby Purves will stop reviewing for the Times from next month, following the termination of her contract. She has been notified by editors that as of October 11 she will no l…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:37AMEnglish Touring Theatre is inviting audiences to vote for their favourite play in a bid to reveal the nation’s most popular show. The theatre company has vowed to stage the plays with the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
Local authorities have seen a significant improvement in their relationships with regional arts council officers over the past year, according to a recent report. Around half of the 71 local…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMApplications to drama degrees starting this academic year have increased from 2012, signalling a partial recovery after last year’s fee increase caused a drop. Figures from the University …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMThe Royal Opera House and Digital Theatre have joined forces to distribute filmed performances of opera and ballet online. Pre-recorded shows from the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet companies …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMA children’s theatre company has been launched to tour work featuring animated projections to cinemas across the capital. Ga Ga Theatre Company’s first show will combine live performance…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director Gregory Doran has announced the organisation is entering into a three-year relationship with the Barbican after more than ten years since …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMMonday, September 9, 2013
Doncaster’s new £22 million theatre, Cast, opened this weekend with shows including an opening ceremony from Slung Low theatre company and the launch of this year’s Breakin’ Conventio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Robert Webb and Sarah Hadland are to appear in Simon Paisley Day’s debut play, Raving, at the Hampstead Theatre in London next month. Webb, best known for his role in Channel 4’s Peep Sh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMMonday, September 2, 2013
South London’s Ovalhouse theatre is in in talks with the local council to move to Brixton as part of a wider development scheme taking place in the area. The venue, which is currently situ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMEquity president Malcolm Sinclair has spoken out against the Lyric Theatre’s decision to replace its artistic director with an executive producer, labelling the move as “idiocy”. The u…
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