HighTide Festival is set to move from Halesworth, Suffolk, to the nearby town of Aldeburgh, in a move organisers hope will help the event "better execute its aims". The 2015 festival will al…
The area around the Liverpool Empire, Playhouse and Royal Court theatres is to be regenerated to create a new artistic quarter in the city. The St George's Quarter Community Interest Company…
The future of London's Union Theatre has been secured after a planning application was approved that will see it relocate to a new space. In 2013, the theatre came under threat when Network …
Circus company Extraordinary Bodies has won £100,000 as part of the Clore Anniversary Prize. Extraordinary Bodies is the UK's only permanent circus company made up equally of diasabled an…
Boris Johnson has hit back at claims that more should be done to address the regional gap in arts funding, describing them as "glib London bashing". The mayor of London was responding to the…
MPs have called for Arts Council England to address the imbalance of funding between London and the regions with "greater urgency". A report published by the culture, media and sport select …
Production news stories featured on The Stage website from October 28 to November 4. MUSICALS Full casting has been announced for the UK tour of Return to the Forbidden Planet, with Queen gu…
Full casting has been announced for a UK tour of Return to the Forbidden Planet, featuring Queen guitarist Brian May, who will appear via video projection. The production, which will take pl…
Jimmy Walters began his career as an actor, but always felt more aligned to directing. After the launch of his company, Proud Haddock, which became the first ever to stage a show in London's…
Joanna Bowen, who began her career as an actor and comedian, is the director of storytelling festival Fireside. Currently in its second year, the festival takes place over two weekends in No…
Laura Wade's Posh will be revived as part of Nottingham Playhouse's spring 2015 season, which also includes two new commissions and Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing. Posh, which ran at the …
Bat Boy: The Musical will be revived at Southwark Playhouse next year. The musical, which received its UK premiere in 2004 at West Yorkshire Playhouse prior to a run at the Shaftesbury Theat…
The Society of London Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe and the Royal College of Music are among organisations who will adopt new London-specific web addresses. The domain names, which end .londo…
Drayton Arms Theatre, London: This piece is something of a curiosity, being one of Ibsen's early and lesser-known works, and has not been professionally staged in the UK since 1930. Rea…
Kristin Scott Thomas will play the Queen in The Audience when it returns to the West End next year. Scott Thomas, who is currently starring in Electra at the Old Vic, will star in Peter̷…
A project aimed at promoting gender equality on UK stages has been announced, which will culminate in a festival of new work at the National Theatre. Women Centre Stage, created by Sphinx Th…
The Theatres Trust has warned that Scarborough's Futurist Theatre will face demolition after the proposed bidder 
for the site was named as theme park 
Flamingo Land. Details of …
The shortlist has been announced for the 2014 Alfred Fagon award for best new play of the year. The award, which is in its 18th year, celebrates the work of black British playwrights of Cari…
National Youth Theatre chief executive Paul Roseby has claimed drama should 
be scrapped from the GCSE curriculum as a stand-alone subject, with its teaching integrated into other less…
Equity has submitted a claim for a 
new commercial theatre agreement, with terms that include proposed changes to allowances and increased minimum rates on tours. The claim calls for c…
The National Theatre's stage adaptation of The Cat in the Hat will return to London in a new production at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington. Following a run at the Edinburgh Fringe this ye…
Production stories featured on The Stage website from October 21 to 28: PLAYS Regent's Park Open Air Theatre has announced its 2015 season, which includes productions of Peter Pan, The Seagu…
The Society of London Theatre has announced that it will renew its West End Wednesdays promotion, which offers half price tickets to West End shows on Wednesdays. Initially launched in July …
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre has announced its 2015 season, which includes productions of Peter Pan, The Seagull and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. The theatre has also announced that it…
English Touring Theatre has announced that James Quaife will be joining the company as producer. He will work alongside ETT's director, Rachel Tackley, as well as executive producer Jane Cla…