Thursday, June 8, 2017
Prince’s estate has condemned an upcoming jukebox musical featuring the artist’s songs, calling it “a blatant attempt to deceive fans”. Purple Rain
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMSheridan Smith has pulled out of performances of Funny Girl after being diagnosed with mumps. She was due to play Fanny Brice
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A training course helping international actors find representation has been set up in London. The ICA Club is aimed at international actors
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts Award in the theatre category, along with
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Peter Sallis, best known for playing Norman ‘Cleggy’ Clegg in all 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine, has died aged
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PMThe Royal Academy of Dance has launched a scheme to attract more male dancers. Project B aims to increase the numbers of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMThe National Theatre has postponed the launch of its summer River Stage following the terrorist attack on Saturday night that killed seven
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMThe Other Room in Cardiff has announced that Dan Jones will become its new artistic director. Jones will take over from Kate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMDiana Vickers has been cast in upcoming Dusty Springfield jukebox musical Son of a Preacher Man. The singer, who was a semi-finalist
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMSinger Louise Redknapp is to make her stage debut as Sally Bowles in an upcoming UK tour of Cabaret. Redknapp will join
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMBally Gill graduated from drama school in 2015. Since then he has starred alongside Steven Berkoff and Sanjeev Bhaskar and, as he
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Elaine Page and Charlie Stemp have been cast in the London Palladium’s 2017 pantomime Dick Whittington. They will play Queen Rat and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMNew-writing festival HighTide is to transfer its pop-up theatre and entire season to London after its run in Aldeburgh. The Suffolk-based festival,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMA jukebox musical based on the songs of Prince will begin a national tour next year. Purple Rain is described as a
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The TKTS discount ticket booth in London’s Leicester Square is set be radically re-designed, and include a performance space, if new plans
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AMMark Rylance is to take part in a series of dramatic readings about war at London’s Park Theatre. As part of Myths
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMThe Donmar Warehouse’s all-female Shakespeare trilogy is set to hit UK cinemas later this year. Filmed versions of Julius Caesar, Henry IV
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York Theatre Royal and Live Theatre in Newcastle are among buildings that have won Royal Institute of British Architects regional awards. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMA new musical directed by Emma Rice will open the winter season at Shakespeare’s Globe, Rice’s last as artistic director of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMPaapa Essiedu and Jessica Brown Findlay are among the nominees announced for this year’s Ian Charleson Awards. The awards were created in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMMark Springer has worked extensively at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Now he’s in Athol Fugard’s apartheid play The Island, made
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Karen Fishwick discovered a desire to perform while attending local drama classes as a child. Now appearing in Our Ladies of Perpetual
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Fred Haig has pulled out of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s production of On the Town after sustaining a fractured foot, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMCommunity dance company People Dancing has launched an online learning programme to prevent injuries among dancers. Preparing for Safer Dance Practice has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMA grade II-listed art deco cinema in Stockton is set to reopen as a live performance venue after the council approved plans
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Samuel Beckett’s monologue Not I performed by Touretteshero is among the shows in Battersea Arts Centre’s 2018 season. Jess Thom, who has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PMWest End musical Wicked has announced new cast members, who will take over on July 24. Alice Fearn will take the role
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:44AMPeterborough’s troubled Broadway Theatre, closed in 2011 after fraud left it in financial disarray, is set to reopen in September. Two local
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Tara Arts artistic director Jatinder Verma has been given an award for his outstanding contribution to the arts by Asian newspaper Eastern
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMActors self-taping auditions are set to receive training from Equity after members at the union’s Annual Representative Conference voted in favour of
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Is something that’s had all of its parts removed and replaced still the same object? It’s a question begged by Jack Thorne’s
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