Wednesday, August 14, 2019
As many people are already aware, the Mercury Theatre, Colchester is currently in the midst of a two-year £9.7 million capital project.
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At this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, a group of companies and theatremakers have launched the #PayIfYouCan initiative, urging established producers, promoters and companies
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The Stage Debut Awards 2019, in association with Access Entertainment, will take place at the Brewery in London on September 15. Here
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMAugust 7, 1919: With a feature in the Times from August 2, 2019 claiming that “London’s most famous theatres are elegant, historic,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:01AMSo much of Lyn Gardner’s Long Read on the fringe could have been written in the 1990s, when I was director of
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 is now underway. Our expert, resident reviewing team pick their best shows of the fringe so far.
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As the Edinburgh Festival Fringe kicks off for 2019, the financial barriers to taking a show to working there have been widely
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This week’s production news includes an announcement that Tudor musical Six is transferring to Broadway and that James McAvoy is to star
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The row over US investors threatening to pull cash if they don’t receive an Olivier statuette is stupid. Just because you put
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM15 years ago (August 5, 2004): We reported on proposals by the Metropolitan Police to impose a blanket curfew on under-16s wishing
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In an interview with The Stage last week, Jenna Russell spoke about the changing nature of auditions, in which actors are increasingly
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I suppose these theatres could reduce their sales of alcohol to the inebriated and their sales of gargantuan food items in noisy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMJuly 24, 1969: Four decades ago, proposals for a national theatre for Wales stalled due to ongoing disagreements about the location and
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Reports of increasingly disruptive behaviour from audiences at West End venues has prompted some theatres to trial the use of body cameras,
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This week’s production news includes Layton Williams and Shane Richie confirmed to star in the UK tour of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,
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After nearly 43 years I am leaving the Queen’s Theatre. I would like to say it’s been an absolute pleasure and very
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The Stage’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe review team pick the shows they are most looking forward to see when the world’s largest arts
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This week, Amelie announced a Christmas transfer to the Other Palace in London, a reworked version of Sister Act was confirmed –
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July 13, 1944: London was suffering aerial bombardment from German V-1 rockets, otherwise known as doodlebugs, 75 years ago this week. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMI feel for these two writers. It is a nasty position to be put in and creatively deflating. The love, passion and
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London theatre the Donmar Warehouse is piloting a scheme to give audience members warning of scenes in its productions that they could
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Selladoor’s plans to launch its new south London venue are being presented as a done deal, but there has been no public
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMJuly 3, 1919: Writing just after the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles that brought the First World War to an
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Last week, the Southbank Centre issued an apology after it was accused of disrespecting understudies by appear. Dove Cameron, appearing in The
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June 28, 1979: Following Margaret Thatcher’s election as prime minister, the new Conservative government passed its first spending review, resulting in a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIt’s taken Mark Cornell three years to realise: “Theatres need to look to cinemas to improve audience comfort”, arguing theatregoers are enduring
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Ambassador Theatre Group chief executive Mark Cornell has claimed theatres should look to cinemas to improve the experiences of theatregoers. He said
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I welcome positive changes to the Equity agreement. But I’d still like to see a change in the unfair tier structure in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMJune 22, 1989: Three decades ago the hot weather was causing big problems for theatre, with a “Mediterranean-style heatwave” blamed for a
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Last week, actor Lenny Henry gave evidence to a parliamentary review on media diversity in which he warned that people from minority
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Musicals Folk musical Once has announced it will return later this year for a UK tour. This production premiered last year at
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