Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Sheffield Theatres’ general manager Sarah Nicholson has been named the new executive director of the Orange Tree Theatre in south-west London. She replaces Gillian Thorpe who retires after…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMBristol theatre company Show of Strength has warned it is under threat of closure following a decision by its local authority to remove its entire annual grant. Councillors have voted to cut…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AMArts Council England’s recent funding announcement has delivered a “massive blow” to smaller companies, with a “disastrous cut” felt in the north-east in particular, the chief exec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTheatremakers have called on venues to open up their spaces to practitioners from a range of backgrounds in a bid to boost diversity in the industry. Disabled, black, Asian and minority ethn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMTuesday, July 8, 2014
Ambassador Theatre Group has appointed Jonathan Grisdale as its managing director of sponsorship, sales and marketing. This is a newly created executive director role, which will see Grisdal…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:57AMMonday, July 7, 2014
Tamzin Outhwaite, Jemima Rooper and Nicholas Burns have been cast in a new play by Ben Ockrent, which opens a season from emerging producers at the St James Theatre in London. Breeders will …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AMFriday, July 4, 2014
The Dukes theatre and cinema in Lancaster has appointed Ivan Wadeson as its new executive director. He joins from The Audience Agency, where his role is joint executive director. His previou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, July 3, 2014
Simon Callow will revive his role in The Man Jesus for a UK tour this autumn. Following the premiere of the one-man show last year at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, it will now visit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:29AMHarriet Walter and Siobhan Redmond are among 50 actors and poets that will recite poetry as part of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of Love, which launched this week. Walter will read Marg…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMNuffield Theatre’s creative and executive director Sam Hodges has revealed his second season at the Southampton venue, which will include a stage adaptation of the Coen Brothers’ film Th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMGene David Kirk has launched his first season as artistic director of the Drayton Arms Theatre in west London, revealing that all productions will operate under a cooperative business model,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AMTheatre Hullabaloo has secured a provisional £1.5 million grant from Arts Council England’s latest round of capital investment to create a flagship children’s theatre in Darlington. The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Arts Council England’s new set of portfolio organisations represents “no demonstrated ambition” to redress the balance of funding between the regions and London, according to the autho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:40AMMusical Return to the Forbidden Planet will tour the UK next year to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The show, which premiered in 1989 at the Cambridge Theatre in London and won an Olivier a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMRegional organisations will see their share of Arts Council England core funding increase by 2% for 2015 to 2018, the funding body revealed yesterday. ACE’s announcement, which unveiled it…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AMPhysical theatre company Frantic Assembly is to partner with Coventry University to deliver a postgraduate qualification in theatre-making. The two organisations claim this marks the first t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMTheatre companies that are regularly funded by Arts Council England will be forced to monitor the diversity of on-stage talent, following new requirements laid out by ACE. All national portf…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
The National Theatre’s production about phone hacking, Great Britain, is to transfer to the West End this September. The play, by Richard Bean, opened at the NT on Monday without previews …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMBuxton Opera House and the Pavilion Arts Centre, which are jointly run by High Peak Theatre Trust, have appointed Simon Glinn as the venues’ new chief executive. He joins in September from…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:38PMArts Council England chief executive Alan Davey has said the funding body’s investment round announced today signals an attempt to maintain stability across the sector and demonstrate a �…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:37AMMonday, June 30, 2014
Jobs in the creative industries have increased by more than 10% in the past two years, according to new government research. From 2011 to 2013, there was a rise in the number of people worki…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:02AMMatthew Kelly has been cast in a revival of Richard Bean’s play Toast at the Park Theatre in north London this summer. He will play the role of Nellie opposite Simon Greenall as Cecil, who…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMSaturday, June 28, 2014
Darlington Civic Theatre has been refused a grant of £5 million by the Heritage Lottery Fund, stalling plans to restore the Edwardian venue. The 900-seat theatre, which is owned and operate…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMFriday, June 27, 2014
Evita is to return to the West End this September, starring Marti Pellow as Che and Madalena Alberto in the lead role. The musical, by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, will reopen the multi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMNew plays by Jack Thorne, Duncan Macmillan, and a stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Twits by Enda Walsh are to feature as part of the Royal Court Theatre’s new 2014/15 season. Joh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMThursday, June 26, 2014
The government has published its response to the consultation on the forthcoming theatre tax relief, agreeing to ensure all performing arts companies are eligible for the initiative includin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:57PMJeeves and Wooster play Perfect Nonsense has extended its West End run by a further four months, until early 2015. The show will run at the Duke of York’s Theatre until January 17, 2015, w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMClean Break has appointed freelance director Roisin McBrinn as its new head of artistic programming. McBrinn, who was also associate director at Sherman Cymru until February, will join the w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMRegional theatres are being targeted by a new live broadcasting scheme that will transmit shows from outside London to cinemas across the UK. Set up by cinema broadcast distributor Quantum D…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, June 25, 2014
Some Girl I Used To Know starring Denise Van Outen is to transfer to the Arts Theatre in central London this summer. The one-woman show, which is co-written by the performer and Terry Ronald…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMThe National Theatre has announced it will premiere Richard Bean’s new play about press intrusion and phone hacking on Monday, following the verdicts of those journalists involved in the…
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