Monday, April 24, 2017
London’s Royal Court Theatre has announced casting for Alice Birch’s new play Anatomy of a Suicide. The production will star Hattie Morahan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMThe Liverpool Playhouse is to close for repairs until September after a £550,000 investment from Liverpool City Council. During the closure asbestos
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMSouthampton’s Mayflower Theatre has launched a campaign to raise £3.9 million for the refurbishment of its auditorium. To mark its 90th anniversary
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Out of Joint theatre company has announced the five finalists for its £8,000 playwriting award. More than 200 candidates submitted plays for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AMCasting has been announced for the Lyric Hammersmith’s production of Terror, in which audience members become the jury in a terrorism trial.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMAn Oxfordshire theatre has received £90,000 for new seating and a new PA system as part of a major development plan. The
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Casting directory Spotlight has announced that it will offer a year’s free subscription to a final-year drama student of East Asian descent.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AM Oklahoma! by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein will be revived as part of this year’s BBC Proms programme. A semi-staged production
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMJulian Clary, Paul Zerdin and Nigel Havers have been cast in the London Palladium’s Christmas pantomime for the second year running. Following
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:13AMSwanage’s Mowlem Theatre will become the latest venue to revive repertory theatre when its summer season opens in August. Productions of Yes,
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A group of drama students has set up a campaign to address the lack of diversity in UK drama schools. The Diversity
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Rather than the big headline events based around classic films – Back to the Future, Moulin Rouge, The Empire Strikes Back –
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Rachael Clerke’s 2015 Edinburgh show How to Achieve Redemption As a Scot Through the Medium of Braveheart saw her lead the entire
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The government should recognise that the creative industries are as important to the economy as cars, oil and gas, the Creative Industries
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The parallels of Frank Loesser’s 1961 classic, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, are hardly subtle. Rank charlatanism and nepotism
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMDavid Bowie’s musical Lazarus is to become a virtual reality experience at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The VR show
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMHow did you become a book writer and lyricist? I did a performing arts degree and I was an actor to begin
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Sixty per cent of secondary school staff have already seen cuts to subjects not included in the government’s English Baccalaureate system, such
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMTV channel Sky Arts is to commission 50 artworks exploring “what it means to be British in a post-Brexit Britain”. London’s Barbican
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A play exploring the ‘post-truth’ era and a piece of live dream interpretation are among the programme of a new temporary theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMTheatre leaders have warned that curriculum and cost pressures on schools are responsible for a decline in theatre trips. The comments by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMMore than £100,000 has been awarded to black, Asian and minority ethnic trainee schemes by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation to address
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMSamuel West is to play Brutus in an upcoming production of Julius Caesar at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre. The actor was previously artistic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMBBC Radio 4 has announced that it is cutting one of its flagship arts programmes Saturday Review. The programme’s last broadcast will
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Read the winners in full here. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picked up a record-breaking nine wins at this year’s Olivier
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:57PMBest actress Winner: Billie Piper for Yerma at the Young Vic Also nominated: Glenda Jackson for King Lear at The Old Vic Cherry
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More than 100 arts organisations in Northern Ireland have had their budgets thrown into doubt after being given 50% of their annual
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMAfter appearing in musicals including City of Angels, Floyd Collins, Dogfight and Ghost, Trehearn has just received an Olivier nomination for best
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Almost half of teenagers attending Shakespeare’s Globe have never been to the theatre before, according to statistics compiled by the London venue.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:07PMFormer The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent boss Elaine Bedell has been appointed chief executive of London’s Southbank Centre. She succeeds
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:19AMHaving landed a lead role in Thriller Live after his very first audition, the actor and singer has appeared in West End
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