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Ambassador Theatre Group has been recognised for its efforts to be more environmentally friendly. ATG is among a number of organisations to win the Green Apple Environment award, and was giv…
Ambassador Theatre Group has been recognised for its efforts to be more environmentally friendly. ATG is among a number of organisations to win the Green Apple Environment award, and was giv…
Director and writer Bob Carlton is best known for writing the Olivier award-winning musical Return to the Forbidden Planet, which has been produced all over the world. A director at heart, h…
In his short career, Luke Sheppard has already worked on several high- profile musicals including Matilda, Singin' in the Rain and In the Heights. But it's not all song and dance as he prepa…
Summer Strallen will star in the world premiere of Flying Into Daylight at Live Theatre in Newcastle later this year. Strallen, whose credits include Top Hat at the Aldwych Theatre and The S…
Vicky Featherstone has outlined her main goals as artistic director of the Royal Court, that include "one hit that [changes] everything" and a "tipping point" in diversity. In an interview w…
Helen Baxendale is returning to the stage after five years to star in Deborah Bruce's new play, The Distance, at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, which opens next month. Baxendale will b…
Full casting for the Donmar Warehouse's production of City of Angels has been announced, and includes Katherine Kelly and Tam Mutu. Peter Polycarpou and Rebecca Trehearn will also join the c…
The opening of a new £45 million arts centre in Bangor has been postponed, after construction works were not completed in time. Pontio, part of Bangor University, had been set to open wit…
London's oldest pie and mash shop will host a site-specific production of Sweeney Todd next month. Harrington's Pie and Mash shop in Tooting will become the setting for Stephen Sondheim's mu…
Park Theatre, London: Anna Jordan's confrontational new play, the second in Epsilon Productions' residency at the Park, is a coming of age story that is as entertaining as it is un…
Fewer UK adults attended the theatre than any other cultural activity when they were growing up, a new study has revealed, which also shows that price and distance are the main barriers to p…
Theatre company Defibrillator has announced a second collaboration with the Langham hotel in London and is launching a writer in residence scheme as part of the initiative. It is hoped that …
Shakespeare's Globe is among the British companies set to perform at a new £18 million modern recreation of an Elizabethan playhouse in Poland, which will be the country's first 
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Antony Sher and Alex Hassell are to star in a production of Death of a Salesman as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2015 summer season, which will also include a staging of Volpone, d…
Wales Millennium Centre has announced the first stage of its 10th anniversary programme, which includes a new play by Sarah Waters and a theatre production performed by 200 school children. …
Gemma Jones will star in a new production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals at London's Arcola Theatre next month. Jones, best known for her roles in films such as Bridget Jones's Di…
The Liverpool Empire will be the only UK venue outside of London to host the international touring production of Mamma Mia! in 2015. The production will run at the Empire from February 20 to…
She has danced all over the world in some of the most prestigious and high-profile dance companies, but aged 30, Michelle Ryan was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease that damaged h…
Tempest Rose left a career in acting to pursue burlesque 10 years ago. A successful soloist, she also runs burlesque company House of Burlesque and comperes its latest show at London Wonderg…
Matthew Seadon-Young will replace Richard Fleeshman as Bobby Strong in the West End transfer of Urinetown, which will also see Nathan Amzi join the cast. Seadon-Young appeared in the show wh…
Maxine Peake is among a group of actors, musicians and artists calling for tougher action against government cuts to public services, which would see arts funding return to pre-2010 levels. …
Former performing arts college Bretton Hall in West Yorkshire is to be transformed into a 120-bedroom luxury hotel, following a successful planning application. The grade II-listed building,…
Simon Lipkin is to star in a production of As You Like it at Southwark Playhouse next month. Lipkin, who recently appeared in I Can't Sing at the London Palladium, will play Touchstone and w…
Fresh from a year as assistant director to Jamie Lloyd on his Trafalgar Transformed season, Edward Stambollouian is directing Awkward Conversations with Animals I've F*cked, a new play by Ro…
13 years ago, actor Fiona Geddes won a scholarship from The Stage to do an acting foundation course. This summer she has written and is starring in one-woman show Normal/Madness at the Edinb…