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The stage adaptation of The 39 Steps will tour the UK next year. Now in its sixth year at the West End’s Criterion Theatre, a touring production of the show will launch on January 19,.…
A group of British East Asian actors, led by the vice-chair of Equity's ethnic minority committee Daniel York, has called for the Royal Shakespeare Company to host a public forum in response…
Arts Council England is cutting 21% of its workforce – more than 100 posts – under its latest organisational restructure. Chief executive Alan Davey has warned that the changes w…
Producers of West End production Thriller Live have announced they are to launch an ‘academy’ to train up young male performers to appear in the show. The MJ Academy will open on…
Baba Israel has announced that he is resigning as artistic director of Contact in Manchester for personal reasons. Israel, who has led the Manchester-based company since June 2009, will leav…
Timothy West and Prunella Scales are to be recognised with The Stage award for outstanding contribution to British Theatre at this weekend’s Theatre Awards UK. The couple are to be rec…
As Timothy West and Prunella Scales prepare for recognition at the Theatre Awards UK, the couple relate how their long success has been nourished by regional tours
Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre has announced a senior management restructure and a revamped artistic policy with an increased focus on new work and opportunities for emerging theatre pr…
Casting for the Royal Shakespeare Company's forthcoming production of The Orphan of Zhao has been criticised because of a lack of east Asian heritage actors in the play. The 13th-century Chi…
A charity gala hosted by Ian McKellen in aid of the forthcoming Park Theatre in London has raised £100,000. The money exceeded Park Theatre’s target of £87,000 and will mean that…
With less than four days of voting remaining, only 50 votes separate the top three nominees for best touring production at the Theatre Awards UK. Thousands of votes have been cast for the aw…
Soho Theatre, London: The Sticking Place's Terror season has been going since 2004. Now in its second year in Soho Theatre's downstairs space, what started off as a festival of sho…
Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre has been granted grade II-listed status by the government. The venue, named after the locally-based actress who helped found it, was designed and buil…
Olivier award-winning playwright Bruce Norris has removed the rights for his play Clybourne Park from a Berlin theatre, after he learned that it intended to ‘black up’ a white ac…
Concerns over car parking in the West End have been highlighted by the Musicians' Union and Equity in their submissions to an inquiry aiming to improve the workings of London's entertainment…
Jermyn Street Theatre's artistic director Gene David Kirk has announced that he will leave the London venue at the end of this year. Kirk has served as artistic director of the Off-West End …
Touring shows are most successful at the box office in the east of England, according to new research by the Theatrical Management Association.
Ambassador Theatre Group has announced that by the end of 2013, it will have invested £15 million in its venues over a three-year period.
Matthew Kelly is to star in a new version of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull by Anya Reiss.
Priscilla Presley is to make her pantomime debut this Christmas in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the New Wimbledon Theatre.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has reported its financial results for 2011/12 - the first year in its new Stratford-upon-Avon home.
The National Theatre has announced that it is opening a New York office.
Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning comedian Sarah Millican has revealed that her next UK tour will avoid all venues operated by the Ambassador Theatre Group, because she does not agree with ATG'…
Mamma Mia! producer Judy Craymer has given £125,000 to the Theatres Protection Fund, matching an opening donation by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation.
Arts Council England has launched a £15 million fund that it is hoped will encourage arts organisations to pay their interns.
