Nimax Theatres will not be prosectued for the partial ceiling collapse that occured at the Apollo Theatre in December last year. An investigation undertaken by Westminster City Council has c…
Harriet Walter will join the previously announced Anthony Sher and Alex Hassell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Death of a Salesman, which runs next year. The production, which runs…
Casting has been announced for Little Light, a new play by Alice Birch, which will run at the Orange Tree Theatre next year. Lorna Brown, Paul Hickey, Yolanda Kettle and Paul Rattray will ap…
Caryl Churchill, Neil LaBute and Mark Ravenhill are among 10 playwrights commissioned to write short plays around issues of censorship and boycott in the arts. Presented by Offstage Theatre …
Kelly Jones has been named as the recipient of the Wales Drama Award 2014. Jones wins £10,000 and the opportunity to develop her ideas with BBC Cymru Wales and National Theatre Wales, whi…
Soho Theatre has been fined £30,000 for the incident involving former stage manager Rachael Presdee in 2012, which left her paralysed. The theatre, which pleaded guilty to health and safe…
A successful performing career led Kinny Gardner to set up Krazy Kat Theatre Company in 1982. The company creates children's work entirely in sign language, which regularly tours theatres, a…
The first National College for the Creative and Cultural Industries is to be established at High House Production Park in Thurrock, with backing from the government. The college will open in…
New shadow minister for the arts Chris Bryant has claimed that measures outlined by chancellor George Osborne 
in the autumn statement will make things "worse" for local authority arts…
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the line-up for its 2015 Globe On Screen season, which includes The Duchess of Malfi, Titus Andronicus and The Comedy of Errors. It is the fifth seaso…
Production news stories featured on The Stage website between December 2 to 9. MUSICALS ' Beatles musical Let It Be will return to the West End next year to run at the Garrick Theatre. It…
Full casting has been announced for the UK tour of Twelve Angry Men, which includes Coronation Street actor Andrew Lancel. Lancel joins the previously announced Tom Conti, alongside Robert D…
Charlie Brooks and Tanya Franks are to star in Contact.Com at Park Theatre next year. Brooks and Franks will be joined by Jason Durr and Ralph Aiken to play two couples who meet over theR…
Judi Dench has revealed that she initially wanted to be a set designer, not an actor. Speaking about her career at an event at the National Theatre, Dench said that she only changed her mind…
Beatles musical Let It Be will return to the West End next year, to run at the Garrick Theatre. It will replace The Scottsboro Boys at the Garrick, where it also played earlier this yearR…
Maureen Lipman is to join the cast of Lindsay Posner’s new production of Harvey, which opens at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in February. Lipman joins the previously announced James Dr…
Directors George Mann and Alexander Zeldin have been named as the recipients of the Quercus Trust Award 2015, and have been appointed associate directors at Bristol Old Vic and Birmingham Re…
Terri Baker has worked for Cirque du Soleil as the artistic director on various shows across the world since 2008. She is currently on tour with Kooza, which runs at the Royal Albert Hall ne…
Orlando James and Eve Ponsonby are to take over the lead roles in the West End production of Shakespeare in Love, which is currently running at the Noel Coward Theatre. James and Ponsonby wi…
Labour MP Chris Bryant has been appointed shadow minister for the arts, a position he has labelled “just about the best job there is”. “The arts and media touch nearly e…
Richard Armitage has claimed performers need to have built a profile through television work before being cast in lead roles on the West End stage. The actor admitted he himself had opted fo…
Playwright Dennis Kelly has praised the UK as the best place in the world for new writers, arguing that "no other country looks at writing the way we do". "I've been all over the world…
Arts leaders have warned that a projected 33% cut in local government culture spending would be "catastrophic" for the industry. Analysis undertaken by Tony Travers from the London School of…
Manchester is to get a new multi-million pound theatre, which will be home to the Manchester International Festival and will be part funded by £78 million from the government. The Factory…
A £4.8 million restoration of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Wing will get underway in January, and will transform the area around the company’s Swan Theatre. The facade…