Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Angela Clerkin is co-directing and performing in her play The Secret Keeper. She talks to Roda Musa about the politics of keeping
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMThe UK and Ireland tour of Matilda the Musical will star previous West End cast members Craige Els and Rebecca Thornhill. Opening
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A stage musical of the animated film Madagascar will tour the UK next year. Based on the Dreamworks animation the production has
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Best presentation of touring theatre Winner: Nuffield Southampton Theatres for the world premier touring musical production of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox
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Ian McKellen has been cast as the voice of the demon in the West End production of The Exorcist. Based on William
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AMHip-hop dance company Boy Blue Entertainment has announced an immersive performance of dance and digital animation that will take place this October.
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Jen Silverman’s Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties is to have its UK premiere at the Southwark Playhouse in London. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMThis week Girl from the North Country announced its West End transfer, and Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins are to lead the
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AMPolitical theatre collective Take Back Theatre, set up by actor Julie Hesmondhalgh, is to create an immersive production about refugees in partnership
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Underbelly has announced the line-up for a two-strand festival to take place in London’s Leicester Square this Christmas. The festival will feature
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Stage managers from around the world are being celebrated as part of International Stage Management Day. The event was first established in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:58AMFlorencia Cordeu’s play Autoreverse will feature in the Casa Latin American Theatre Festival in London. Cordeu tells Roda Musa about how her
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Liz Wilson has been appointed executive director of the Oxford School of Drama. From December she will replace Kate Ashcroft, who will
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Artistic director of Sheffield Theatres Robert Hastie has announced his new season for 2018, which will include Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon. Hastie has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:06AMThe Academy of Live and Recorded Arts has announced a new two-year long MA in directing for 2018. The drama school, based
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMTom Morris’s The Grinning Man will transfer to Trafalgar Studios in London following its premiere at Bristol Old Vic last year. Based
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This week in production news Barrie Rutter is to star in The Captive Queen produced by Shakespeare’s Globe, and An American in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PMCardiff pub theatre the Other Room has launched a playwriting award for Wales-based female writers. The theatre, which won The Stage’s fringe
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AMAlice Barlow and Michelle Gayle are to take over Diana Vickers and Debra Stephenson’s roles in the UK tour of Son of
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With credits including The Mariner and Macbeth, McKenna recently worked on (The Fall of) The Master Builder at West Yorkshire Playhouse. She speaks
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMMartin Freeman, Lee Evans and Bertie Carvel are among the stars who will perform scenes from Shakespeare’s plays to raise funds for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:29AMConor McPherson’s Girl from the North Country will transfer to the West End following a run at the Old Vic in London.
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Amber Massie-Blomfield, the executive director of Camden People’s Theatre in London, is to step down next year. Massie-Blomfield joined the theatre in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMGwen Taylor and Susan Penhaligon are to lead the cast in the UK tour of The Importance of Being Earnest. The production
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Drama students across the UK have been awarded £77,500 worth of bursaries by the Society of London Theatre to help them complete
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Shakespeare’s Globe in London has announced that Barrie Rutter will play the role of The Emperor in its production of The Captive
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AM The Black Eye Club by Phil Charles has been announced as the winner of the first Bread and Roses playwriting award.
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This week in production news Mark Gatiss is to star in the Nottingham Playhouse’s The Madness of King George III, and Patti
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PMOlivia Colman has revealed that she underwent cognitive hypnotherapy to combat stage fright before her first public performance in Mosquitoes at the
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An American in Paris, which opened earlier this year, is to close at the Dominion Theatre after nine months. The musical, inspired
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