Friday, 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 01:06PMAlexandra Palace has been given around £850,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop its plans for regenerating the site, which includes restoration of its Victorian theatre. The money…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMColman Domingo and Forrest McClendon, who starred in the original Broadway production of The Scottsboro Boys, will return to the musical in the Young Vic’s production later this year. Domi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMThursday, May 9, 2013
The Union Theatre in south London has been saved from closure after its owner, Network Rail, withdrew its application to the local council to change the site into offices. However, other bus…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMTheatre companies DV8 and Tamasha and membership organisation Dance UK are among the successful groups to receive money from Arts Council England’s £7 million Catalyst funding scheme. DV8…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Young person’s arts venue Contact has appointed Matt Fenton as its artistic director and chief executive. Fenton will take up his new joint role at the Manchester-based organisation from S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PMThe world premiere of Simon Stephens’ play Blindsided will be presented at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre next year as part of the venue’s winter season. Described as an “unexpe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:04PMThe creators of Tesco’s Clubcard scheme have announced that they are branching out into the cultural sector, claiming that better use of audience data could help unlock £250 million of co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMRambert Dance Company has sold its current building in west London to an independent cinema group. If successful in its planning application to local council London Borough of Hounslow, Pict…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AMTalawa Theatre Company will revive artistic director Michael Buffong’s 2012 National Theatre production of Moon on a Rainbow Shawl as part of its new 2013/2014 season. The play, which is w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:49AMCitizens Theatre in Glasgow, Opera North in Leeds and Sherman Cymru in Cardiff are among five arts venues to receive £500,000 each towards expanding their audiences. The Royal Liverpool Phi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Chronic underinvestment in historic West End theatres should be investigated by the government as a “matter of urgency”, according to a report looking into the problems affecting the e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:22PMChoreographer Peter Schaufuss’s Hamlet, which was due to run at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London later this month, has been cancelled. A spokeswoman for the show confirmed that “due to t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMIan Kelly has been awarded this year’s Theatre Book Prize for his biography of playwright Samuel Foote. He was presented with the prize for his book, Mr Foote’s Other Leg, at the London …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:40AMFriday, May 3, 2013
London fringe venue Theatre503 will present a collection of plays inspired by the life and death of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher next month. The series of new short plays, entitle…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:42AMThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has extended its booking period at the Apollo Theatre in the West End until autumn 2014. The National Theatre production was originally book…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMThursday, May 2, 2013
The Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond has launched a fundraising appeal to save it from closure. The grade-I listed building, which was built in 1788, needs more than £100,000 to secure it…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMThe Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has been awarded £1.5 million from the Scottish Funding Council to provide free performing arts training for children from poorer backgrounds. The scheme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AMEnglish National Opera has claimed it has reduced its £2 million deficit by around two thirds. The company’s accounts for 2012/13 indicate that it is now left with a deficit of around £8…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:03AMNatalie Abrahami has been named the third Genesis Fellow at the Young Vic and as part of her appointment also becomes an associate director at the venue. Abrahami directed After Miss Julie a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
A campaign has been set up to inform commercial dancers about their rights within the sector and to improve working conditions. Dancers United UK, a campaigning body that has been founded by…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMTerry Gilliam will once again work with the English National Opera to direct a new production of Benvenuto Cellini as part of the company’s 2013-14 season. The co-production with Amsterdam…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMBlackpool Opera House will be the only venue to host the international touring production of Mamma Mia! next year. The touring version of the West End show will run at the theatre for ten we…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Equity members have voted in favour of a West End agreement that includes a clause which will allow producers to stage a second show on a Sunday, provided that consent is given by individual…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMMark Rubinstein, president of the Society of London Theatre, has said that the theatre industry can make the economic case to the government “100 times over, in so many ways,” to justify…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMNicola Walker, who won this year’s best supporting actress prize at the Oliviers for her role in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, has revealed the physical performanc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMNew writing opportunities developed through publicly-funded theatres should be invested in because it is financially beneficial to both commercial producers and the subsidised sector, playwr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, April 29, 2013
Marianne Elliott has said she will not be in the running for the job of artistic director at the National Theatre, claiming that it would be “particularly difficult” to take on the role …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00PMThe creative team behind Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which dominated at this week’s Olivier Awards, have said that the winning play would not have been made without the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17PMEnglish National Ballet’s artistic director Tamara Rojo will perform the lead role in the company’s production of Swan Lake for select dates at the Royal Albert Hall this summer. Rojo wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMSunday, April 28, 2013
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has won seven Olivier Awards, matching the record set by Matilda the Musical last year. The National Theatre production, which has since tra…
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