Friday, June 28, 2013
Theatre funding organisation Stage One has awarded £30,000 to Gavin Kalin to co-produce the West End transfer of the Young Vic’s A Doll’s House. Kalin will co-produce the show with Mark…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMThursday, June 27, 2013
Touring company Icarus Theatre Collective has been saved from closure after it was awarded a grant from Arts Council England, which means it can continue to create work for the next year. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMJermyn Street Theatre’s new autumn season is to open with a programme of works by Steven Berkoff, which will be co-directed by him. Steven Berkoff: Religion and Anarchy is a five-week seas…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AMWednesday, June 26, 2013
Matthew Kelly is to appear in the world premiere of a new adaptation of E R Braithwaite’s book To Sir With Love. Kelly will play Florian in the show, which has been adapted by Ayub...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport will receive a cut to its budget of 7% for 2015 to 2016, Chancellor George Osborne has said today. Announcing the Comprehensive Spending Review, O…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMMonday, June 24, 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to use social media platform Twitter to tweet Voltaire’s novel Candide, ahead of a performance based on the text this summer. The 140-character messages …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMFriday, June 21, 2013
The Ambassador Theatre Group has launched a new apprenticeship programme for technicians that will allow four participants to work at the company’s regional receiving venues. The one-y…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:34AMThe Royal Central School of Speech and Drama will have to remove advertising hoardings that generate £150,000 of income, if the local council does not approve its proposal for an alternativ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AMAkram Khan has been named as the next guest artistic director of the National Youth Dance Company. The choreographer will begin in his role from October, when the company of 16 to 19 year-ol…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMThe Mayflower Theatre in Southampton has submitted a petition to its local council objecting to proposals that would see evening car parking charges increased in the city centre. More than 2…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, June 20, 2013
Wilton’s Music Hall in east London has been given a grant of £1.85 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, which marks the final step in its fundraising campaign to preserve the venue. Th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThe Menagerie Theatre Company in Cambridge is to expand its new writing festival, bringing its shows to London, Colchester and Bury St Edmunds this summer. The Hotbed festival will run at Lo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMComedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring are to feature as part of the Battersea Arts Centre’s summer season of Edinburgh preview shows. Lee will perform his new piece Much A-Stew About N…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMThe UK City of Culture 2017 shortlist has revealed that Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay are all in the running for the title. A total of 11 bids were considered from cities including…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
Cultural organisations are currently experiencing an “arts emergency” and are in need of a survival strategy led by the government, shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman has said. Spea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:44PMAn international festival with an overwhelming domestic audience, Bergen is looking to the UK to develop a global reach, its artistic director tells Nicola Merrifield
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMLondon’s Young Vic Theatre and entertainment union BECTU are in talks to negotiate a new structure for the venue’s front of house staff. The venue is planning to create four new full-tim…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMTheatre leaders should lobby the government for mandatory consultation on new developments close to venues to stop their operations from being threatened, Nimax Theatres chief executive Nica…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport is calling upon arts organisations to contribute to a survey that will investigate how the European Union affects the UK. In her written statement…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMThe Gate Theatre in north London has announced its new season will include three productions from American writers George Brant, Ethan Lipton and Dan O’Brien. Entitled These American Lives…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AMTheatres in the UK are operating within working models that are potentially “corrupting”, leading to productions that fails to represent contemporary society, Lyric Hammersmith artistic …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:35AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
London venues such as the Barbican, Sadler’s Wells and Shakespeare’s Globe are among 200 cultural organisations that will take part in the first UK-wide arts festival for families. Regio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:17AMThe Lyric Hammersmith will present an eight-month season of ‘secret’ repertory work at its venue from this autumn while it continues its £16.5 million capital project, which includes a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AMAshley Zhangazha has received this year’s Ian Charleson Award, which is given for an outstanding performance in a classical role by an actor under the age of 30. He was singled out for his…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMMonday, June 17, 2013
Wilton’s Music Hall in London has raised £600,000 in match funding, which means it can now submit an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the remaining money needed to carry out r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:40PMShakespeare’s Globe in London has announced it will hold open auditions for its new children’s company this July. Comprising boy and girl performers aged 12 to 16 years old, the Globe Yo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMFriday, June 14, 2013
Arts Council England chairman Peter Bazalgette has praised the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for its negotiations with the Treasury that have resulted in an expected cut of around …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMPlaywright Martin Crimp and composer George Benjamin, the creators of opera Written on Skin, are to collaborate again on a new full-scale work for the Royal Opera in London. Due to premiere …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:42PMThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport will receive an 8% cut to its budget for 2015 to 2016 after a deal was struck with the Treasury, according to press reports. It is expected that...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMRob Hayes has won this year’s Tom Erhardt Award for up and coming writers. The £5,000 prize “celebrates and supports new writing for the stage by providing grants to playwrights who hav…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMAlmeida Theatre and Headlong’s co-production of Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood is to transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London this summer. The show, which is directed by Lyndsey Turner,…
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