As the UK's theatres sparkle with creative brilliance amid a background of grey austerity The Stage 100 salutes the industry's brightest sparks, some well known and others unsung If you're r…
The sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, who helped to create the 1960s psychedelic sound through working with The Beatles, has died in the Californian city of San Diego at the age of 92. His wife, …
Arts Council England will have its budgets for 2013 to 2015 cut by £11.6 million, following the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. Last week, it was announced that the Department for Cu…
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has warned that the arts are set to face further cuts as a result of the Autumn Statement. Yesterday, it was revealed that the DCMS’ budget …
Local authority funding for theatres in England and Wales fell by 6.3% in 2011/12, according to newly released government data. The figure is revealed in Local Authority Revenue Expenditure …
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s budget will be cut by £34 million over the next two years, under plans announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement today. DCMS…
London’s Old Vic Theatre has announced its 2013 season, including a revival of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing starring Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones and directed by…
Alistair Smith talks to Michael James Bierman about their bid to make the West End accessible to all.
Ambassador Theatre Group is to launch an office in Sydney to oversee the company's expansion in the Asia Pacific region. The office will be led by Tim McFarlane as chief executive for ATG As…
Culture minister Ed Vaizey has defended the coalition government's record on arts funding, following a series of scathing attacks from leading theatre industry figures. In a letter to The St…
Theatre Royal Newcastle chief executive Philip Bernays has warned that a planned 100% cut to its local council funding will have a knock-on effect on the kind of work it programmes. Newcastl…
Newcastle City Council has published plans to completely remove funding to all arts organisations in the city, including Northern Stage, Newcastle Theatre Royal and Live Theatre, by 2016. Du…
Culture minister Ed Vaizey and Frances Osborne, wife of chancellor George Osborne, hosted a reception to "celebrate British theatre" at No 11 Downing Street this week. Leading figures from t…
Andrew Smaje has left his position as chief executive of Hull Truck Theatre "to pursue new opportunities". Smaje's tenure at the theatre has been sometimes controversial, with both him and t…
Artistic directors from the UK's leading regional venues have joined with Olympic opening ceremony director Danny Boyle and National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner to warn that Br…
Center Stage China, billing itself as a one-stop shop for European theatre producers wanting to transfer shows to and from China, has launched in London this week. The company, set up by Fin…
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds' board has announced it will carry out a public consultation on the future of the Regency playhouse, after concerns were raised over initial proposals to merge …
Bush Theatre artistic director Madani Younis has announced an overhaul of the London venue's new writing policy. The company currently runs a policy where a playwright can submit an unsolici…
The Old Vic Theatre Company’s production of Noises Off is to tour the UK from March. The revival of Michael Frayn’s backstage farce opened at the Old Vic in December 2011, before…
The Reduced Shakespeare Company is to revive its production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) for a UK tour in 2013. The show, which premiered in 1981, later ran for ni…
Arts Council England, Equity, the Society of London Theatre and the Theatrical Management Association are to host an event next year to address the issues surrounding work opportunities for …
Andrew Fishwick has left the Park Theatre in London three months after being appointed executive director of the venue. Fishwick, a former West End producer who was jailed for fraud in 2010,…
Stephanie Manuel, the founder and figurehead of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, the UK's largest stage school franchise, has left the company, The Stage can reveal. Manuel, who set up the first Sta…
Digital Theatre has launched a new service offering online distribution to filmed content created by other producers. Until now, all the filmed content available to watch online, download or…
Fears have been raised over plans to merge the management of the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds with that of a local concert hall, a move it is claimed will increase the theatre's financial l…