Thursday, May 30, 2013
Drama school courses should feature more works by black and minority ethnic playwrights to prevent students from those backgrounds feeling isolated during studies, leading academics have sai…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, May 29, 2013
The Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers is joining forces with Creative and Cultural Skills to establish job requirement guidelines for the ticketing industry. The National Occupational S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMWeymouth Pavilion Theatre will close at the end of this week, while the local council tries to find a group to take over the running of the venue. Weymouth and Portland Borough Council, whic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Southwark Playhouse’s production of Tanzi Libre, which centres around wrestling and features fight choreography, has been cancelled after lead actor Olivia Onyehara suffered an injury last…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AMWestminster City Council has confirmed it will go ahead with its 100% cut to arts funding despite a petition in opposition to the proposal. The petition called on the local authority to reje…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon is to screen productions live across the UK from this winter, starting with Shakespeare’s Richard II. The venue will collaborate with P…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMThursday, May 23, 2013
The UK’s first circus competition, Circus Maximus, has announced its finalists, which will include hula hoop dancer Sylvia Pavone, aerial contortionist Ben Brown, and ‘cloud swing’ dou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Jonathan Lloyd has been appointed as artistic director and chief executive of Pegasus Theatre in Oxford. He begins his new role this September and replaces Euton Daley. Lloyd leaves his posi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMFears have been raised about the increasing number of acting jobs that require nudity, and the possibility that actors refusing to take their clothes off at castings are being denied work. M…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
A campaign against the double taxation of artists performing abroad should be “endorsed and supported” by Equity according to union members. Christie Clifford, a member of Humberside var…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMA campaign to tackle late payments to Equity members working as freelancers has been proposed at the union’s Annual Representative Conference. Peter Rylands, chair of the north Lancashire …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMUnion members have urged Equity to relaunch its Low Pay/No Pay campaign due to increasing cuts to funding, which is causing companies to pay employees reduced rates. Henrietta Branwell, a me…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:08AMAn investigation into job advertisement websites that charge entertainers money to see basic information about work has been called for by Equity members. Speaking at the union’s Annual Re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:05AMMonday, May 20, 2013
Tom Hiddleston is to star in the title role of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus as part of the Donmar Warehouse’s autumn season. Joining Hiddleston in the production, which will be directed by a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMFriday, May 17, 2013
The Young Vic production of A Doll’s House will transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre this summer. Simon Stephens’ adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play, which is directed by Carrie Cra…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMThursday, May 16, 2013
The Southbank Centre has failed to secure more than £10 million towards its £120 million redevelopment project after the Heritage Lottery Fund rejected its bid. Plans to refurbish the venu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PMJane Asher, Charlotte Wakefield and Michael Xavier are all to appear in productions being staged at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London this summer. Asher has been cast as Lady Cather…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:27AMThe Civic in Barnsley has appointed Helen Ball as its new chief executive. She takes up her post with immediate effect, replacing Fergus Justice-Mills who left in October. The 300-seat arts …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:05AMTheatres in the West End have been saved from new planning legislation that had threatened to bring them into conflict with nearby residents, after local councils were granted exemptions fro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
A play about the illusionist Harry Houdini and his brother Theodore is set to tour the UK this autumn. Written by and starring filmmaker Stuart Brennan, who is best known for his BAFTA award…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:45PMChoreographers are viewed as “intellectually inferior” by other theatre makers and need to convince the industry that they are a creative force “to be reckoned with”, Javier de Fruto…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMAlexandra Palace has been given around £850,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop plans for regenerating the site, which includes restoration of its Victorian theatre. The money wil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMTheatre Royal, Drury Lane has completed a multi-million pound restoration to improve its rotunda, royal staircases and Grand Saloon in the year of its 350th anniversary. The upgraded areas, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:36AMA children’s talent competition promising thousands of pounds worth of prizes to participants has been accused of leaving its winners empty-handed. An early day motion put forward by Black…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMTuesday, May 14, 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company will once again partner with professional venues across the UK to deliver Open Stages, a scheme that provides amateur companies with the opportunity to learn ne…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AMLeicester’s Curve has announced its fifth birthday season will include Martin McDonagh’s play The Beauty Queen of Leenane and a new production of musical Chicago, both directed by artist…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AMPark Theatre in north London launches tomorrow with the opening of These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich, after its artistic director and architect visited more than 35 theatres across the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Janthi Mills has been named Hull Truck Theatre’s new executive director. She joins the venue this August from her current role as general manager of the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry. Her p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:09AMSadler’s Wells’ 2013 autumn season will include world premieres from Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance and Rambert Dance Company. Atomos, choreographed by McGregor, is inspired by the stru…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AMSusan Coffer has been named executive director of Northern Stage in Newcastle. In this newly created position, Coffer will work alongside incoming artistic director Lorne Campbell. Previousl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:09AMFriday, May 10, 2013
A new theatre in Brighton has opened this week in an abandoned chapel to “fill a gap in the market” for mid-sized venues hosting professional productions in the town. Emporium, which is …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PM 
