News: Bids invited to take over two Sutton theatres
Sutton Council has renewed its call for bidders to come forward to take over two of its theatres, revealing it would consider selling off the venues to a commercial theatre operator. The fut…
Sutton Council has renewed its call for bidders to come forward to take over two of its theatres, revealing it would consider selling off the venues to a commercial theatre operator. The fut…
Northern Stage and Live Theatre in Newcastle are among 17 arts organisations in the city to receive a share £1.4 million as part of a new council fund. The fund, which is managed by the…
Arts Council of Wales is to be hit with a 3% cut in government funding for the second year running, despite original plans for the organisation to receive just a 1% cut in 2015/16. ACW'sR…
An exhibition celebrating early 20th-century Russian theatre design is to open at the Victoria and Albert Museum next week. Russian Avant Garde Theatre " War, Revolution and Design 1913-1933…
Theatre company Punchdrunk will recreate a Victorian fair in east London at the end of this month. Produced through its community arm, Punchdrunk Enrichment, The Hallowtide Fair, which tradi…
The Old Red Lion Theatre has announced its winter/spring season, the theatre's first under new artistic director Stewart Pringle. Philip Ridley's Piranha Heights, directed by Max Barton, wil…
Miracle on 34th Street will once again tour the UK this Christmas, beginning Fairfield Halls in Croydon in November. The stage production of the 1947 musical film also toured in 2013, and wi…
Olivier award-winning actor Michelle Terry has worked extensively for the RSC and the National Theatre as well as writing and starring in Sky1's The Cafe. She is playing Rosaline and Beatric…
Wales Millennium Centre's new artistic and creative director Graeme Farrow has revealed plans to double the amount of drama he programmes, including an increase in shows produced in-house, i…
The Corn Exchange in Newbury is launching an outdoor arts space that will be used specifically for the development of open-air work. Based on the former site of the RAF Greenham Common air b…
Whatsonstage co-founder Terri Paddock has completed nine months of legal proceedings against the organisation's US owners, following her dismissal from the company last year. Paddock, who wa…
A five-month installation celebrating the legacy of theatre director Joan Littlewood is being created at Stratford underground station in London. The project, which is entitled The Palace th…
Bristol Old Vic has revealed the winners of its annual Peter O'Toole Prize for actors. The prize is awarded to exceptional actors graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, who are …
West Yorkshire Playhouse has been awarded a grant of £103,000 by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to develop work for people living with dementia. The grant will fund a three-year project entit…
German director Nicolas Stemann is among European directors being brought to the UK by a new theatre company to work on six productions. Theatre of Europe, launched on Monday at the Lyric Ha…
A live screening of Billy Elliot the Musical has topped the UK and Ireland cinema box office, with takings of £1.9 million. The screening, which was broadcast live from London's Victoria …
The Questors Theatre in Ealing, one of the UK's largest non-professional companies, has renamed its theatre building the Judi Dench Playhouse in honour of the actor. Dench, who has been pres…
National Theatre Wales has announced that its next production will be an interactive theatre game, where an online audience will determine the show's outcome. Co-created by artists John Nort…
Ayub Khan Din's East is East, which begins previews in the West End this week, will embark on a three-week UK tour following its time in London, where it is running at Trafalgar Studios as…
Sophie Watson will join the Bush Theatre as producer, the theatre's artistic director, Madani Younis, has announced. Formerly programme and projects manager at Watford Palace Theatre, Watson…
Ben Earl rose to prominence with his Channel 4 show, Ben Earl: Trick Artist in 2013. Now he is back performing live magic in his latest project, Show, at Leicester Square Theatre How did you…
Fed up with people thinking he was the only deaf man to be a dancer, Mark Smith founded Deaf Man Dancing in 2010. The company fuses dance with sign-language to create a unique form of…
Arts Council England's chief executive, Alan Davey, is leaving the organisation to become controller of BBC Radio 3. Davey, who joined ACE in 2007, will take up his post at the BBC from Janu…
Katie Brayben will play Carole King in the upcoming West End production of Beautiful " The Carole King Musical, which opens at the Aldwych Theatre next year. Brayben, who is currently appear…
London's Victoria and Albert museum has acquired the personal papers of renowned theatre director Peter Brook, which document his life and work from childhood and throughout his career. The …