Tuesday, November 12, 2019
A new annual award aimed at supporting female directors to bring their work to a wider audience has been launched by the
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Circus performer and dancer Symoné is currently preparing for the preview of her first theatre show at London’s Hoxton Hall as part
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This week’s production news round-up includes Sara Bareilles’ West End debut in Waitress, the world premiere of a double bill by Hofesh
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMPreeya Kalidas will join the West End cast of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie later this month. She will play the role of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMJason Donovan and Jac Yarrow will reprise their roles in the Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat when it returns next year.
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The Addams Family musical is set to tour the UK and Ireland for a second time. The 2020 tour will open at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMMorecambe’s endangered Winter Gardens has received £123,312 from Historic England, which will help secure its future. The Winter Gardens Preservation Trust has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMSheffield Theatres is to stage a production of My Mother Said I Never Should, which has been translated into British Sign Language
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Unpublished letters in which Kenneth Williams calls Alan Ayckbourn’s plays “rubbish” will go up for auction later this month. The collection features
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMBrighton Festival 2020 will open with the world premiere of new work by Hofesh Shechter’s, it has been confirmed. Double Murder, a two
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Phoebe Eclair-Powell has been named the overall winner of the 2019 Bruntwood Prize for playwriting. Her script Shed: Exploded View spans 30
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48PMThe National Theatre is to phase out pre-recorded announcements that use gender-specific terms. It comes as Equity urges venues to “consider adopting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMNow touring the revival of her one-woman show Fallen Fruit, written in 2010, Katherina Radeva tells Ruth Comerford how the piece was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMSara Bareilles will make her West End debut in Waitress. She will star alongside Gavin Creel, who appeared in the show with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMTelevision and radio host Debbie McGee is to make her stage debut in The House on Cold Hill. The thriller, which is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMEnda Walsh is to judge a new playwriting competition aimed at finding new work related to addiction and substance misuse. The Phil
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This week’s production news round-up includes the announcement that Beverley Knight is to star in a new musical about vocal group the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:33PMKander and Ebb musical Curtains will have its London premiere at Wyndham’s Theatre, it has been confirmed. The murder mystery comedy, currently
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Kinky Boots the Musical is to be screened in more than 600 cinemas across the UK and Ireland. Cinema company More2screen announced
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Jodie McNee and Danny Lee Wynter have been cast in Faustus: That Damned Woman at the Lyric Hammersmith. The gender-swapped production will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:56PMWelsh National Opera has appointed Yvette Vaughan Jones as its new chair, alongside five new board members. She is the first woman
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The WhatsOnStage Awards will add two new categories when its returns for its 20th year in 2020. Best musical direction and best
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The Royal Ballet’s principal character artist Alastair Marriott has announced his resignation after 30 years. He said he was leaving to develop
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMThis week’s production news round-up includes an announcement that Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Saunders will star in West End musical Sister Act,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMAudible has announced a new collection of recordings from this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 includes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMJessica Chastain is to make her UK theatre debut in the West End production of A Doll’s House, as part of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMA new production of The Dresser starring Julian Clary and Matthew Kelly is set to tour the UK next year. The production
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Actors including Adrian Lester, David Suchet and Caroline Sheen have revealed their in-between jobs on Twitter in support of Katie Jarvis, who
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Waitress the musical has announced that Hannah Tointon will join the West End cast in the role of Dawn. She will take over
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AMA new LGBTQ+ theatre festival is to run at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre, featuring four new commissions funded by Arts Council England.
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An anthology of short plays for women performers has been published, described as an “antidote to casting anomalies” often found in drama
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