Tuesday, August 15, 2017
BBC2 will broadcast Robert Icke’s production of Hamlet, which is currently playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AM95% liberal, 92% white, 52% female, 92% remain. That is the – perhaps unsurprising – make up of the National Theatre audience
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Theatre publisher Oberon Books has published its first musical score in the company’s 32-year history. A 153-page songbook of Seiriol Davies’ musical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AMWriter Anthony Horowitz has suggested that theatre critics should not be given free tickets to review shows. As reported in the Times,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMOn an empty, in-the-round stage, a Pakistani man called Changez tells us his life story: raised in Lahore, he won a scholarship
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Pleasance will host its first accessibility gala at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe to raise awareness of the lack of disabled access
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMShows about racism, radicalisation, poverty and Morrissey are among the winners of the Scotsman’s Fringe First awards at this year’s Edinburgh Festival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMFull casting has been announced for the upcoming tour of Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places and Things. Michael Balogun, Trevor Fox, Susan Lawson-Reynolds,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMLeeds City Council has approved plans for a new £75 million creative arts building at Leeds Beckett University. The 14,500 sq metre
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Patrice Naiambana, David Judge and Jonathan Livingstone will star in the upcoming tour of Harold Pinter’s play The Caretaker. Naiambana will play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AMThe Royal National Lifeboat Institution will name a boat after Enid Foster, the British Theatre Association and Garrick Club librarian who died
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Leicester’s Curve theatre has revealed an £11.7 million turnover in 2016/17, an increase of £1.5 million compared to the previous year. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMJohn Pielmeier’s stage adaptation of The Exorcist will transfer to London’s Phoenix Theatre later this year. The play, based on the horror
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMBBC Radio 4 arts programme Front Row will be broadcast weekly on television, the Corporation has announced. It will air weekly on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMA big bang, a load of whimpering and the end of the world – that’s Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s play in a nutshell,
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Comedian Nish Kumar and poet Harry Baker are among artists donating their shows to a day-long charity event at this year’s Edinburgh
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMThe BBC has launched a training programme to increase the number of disabled actors working in the organisation. The scheme, entitled Class
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An acting school based in Cardiff has been set up by Drama Studio London founder Peter Layton. Cardiff School of Acting will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMFollowing up on her success as a performance poet and comedian, Jackie Hagan has now turned to playwriting. Her debut play, Cosmic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMIt’s the word of the moment, woke. Do you care about social justice? About civil rights? You’re woke. Even more so if
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMThe full, uncensored script of Joe Orton’s play Loot will be performed for the first time later this year. The play was
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Is this really what the West End needs? Another uninspired production of another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical? Another all-white cast, another all-male
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMBen Lewis is to take over the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera in the West
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A new arts festival aimed at older people has been set up in England to promote creativity in later life. The festival,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMThe Stantonbury Theatre in Milton Keynes has relaunched with Lucy Cuthbertson as its new artistic director. The 256-seat theatre, which programmes a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMSamantha Bond will star in the English language premiere of Florian Zeller’s The Lie at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Bond will play
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Emma Rice and Arts Council England have “emphatically rejected” claims that almost £2 million of funding for Rice’s new company Wise Children
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An unperformed play by Peter Pan playwright JM Barrie has been discovered in an archive in Texas. The 33-page farce called The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMCasting has been announced for three productions in Robert Hastie’s inaugural season as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres. Hastie will direct Chris
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Sara Shaarawi was raised in Cairo and settled in Scotland after studying there. She tells Tim Bano about bringing Arab work to
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In May, Sarah Punshon took over as artistic director at the Dukes in Lancaster. She tells Tim Bano about reaching out to
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