News: Menier Chocolate Factory to launch £10 tickets scheme
The Menier Chocolate Factory has launched a new subsidised theatre tickets scheme, which will offer £10 tickets to young people. The Golden Tickets scheme, which has been launched in coll…
The Menier Chocolate Factory has launched a new subsidised theatre tickets scheme, which will offer £10 tickets to young people. The Golden Tickets scheme, which has been launched in coll…
Producers of Motown The Musical have confirmed that the show, currently running on Broadway, will come to the West End in 2015. The production, which will close in New York next January with…
Shakespeare in Love, which is running at London's Noel Coward Theatre, has extended its booking period to January 10, 2015, releasing almost 76,000 extra tickets. The production, a stage ada…
Charity Wakefield, Bryan Dick, Rebecca Grant and Oliver Hembrough will join the previously announced Roger Allam in Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar when it runs at the Hampstead Theatre this …
Alun Armstrong, Kenneth Cranham and Greg Hicks are set to appear in productions at Theatre Royal Bath's Ustinov Studio as part of its autumn season. The season of three black comedies begins…
Actors and directors are being called on to contribute to a research project that is aiming to create the most comprehensive database on black and Asian Shakespeare performance in the UK. Mu…
The Lyric Hammersmith has appointed marketing agency Boom Ents to run its marketing campaign when the theatre reopens next spring following a multi-million pound refurbishment. Boom Ents was…
Arts organisations Tara Arts Group, ZeroPlus Theatre and Raw Material Music and Media are set to receive Arts Council End grants totalling more than £650,000. The funding forms the 15th r…
The shortlist has been announced for this year's Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, with James Acaster, Alex Horne and Sara Pascoe all among the nominees for the main prize. The awards, now i…
A former Sunderland fire station, which has been derelict for the past 22 years, is set to become the centre of a new cultural quarter in the city as part of a £10 million project….
Underbelly director Charlie Wood has said the protest in Edinburgh that forced Israeli show The City to be cancelled was "the worst situation" he had ever dealt with in 20 years of working a…
Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense is set to end its West End run next month, despite plans to extend the show until 2015. The show had previously extended its booking period until Janua…
Pilot Theatre is to head up a four-year international cooperation project, thanks to a €2 million (£1.6 million) grant from the European culture funding stream, Creative Europe. Pla…
The world premiere of a new musical adaptation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles will take place at the New Wimbledon Studio Theatre next month. The adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel, which has …
Australian performer Michael Griffiths may have starred in some of the world's best known musicals, including Priscilla Queen of the Desert, but the opportunity to do his own cabaret as a ho…
Hammed Animashaun has spent the last year working in ensemble with the Lyric Hammersmith's Secret Theatre, performing five shows to an audience without any knowledge of their titles. The com…
Buskers in Liverpool will now be able to make money from their performances without needing a licence to busk, thanks to a new guide drawn up by the Musicians' Union, Liverpool City Council …
The Stage has scooped an exclusive review of controversially cancelled Edinburgh Fringe show The City, from Israeli company Incubator Theatre. The production, a hip-hop musical due to …
Kim Criswell and Daragh O'Malley are to star in a touring production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which opens next month. American actor Criswell, who was nominated for an O…
Theatre Royal Plymouth has announced its 2014/15 season, which includes commissioned work by James Graham and D C Moore. The Angry Brigade by Graham will premiere at the Theatre Royal on Sep…
The Thameside Theatre in Thurrock could face closure after the council called for an appraisal into its future. In a report, the local authority, which owns and runs the Thameside, has said …
Touring show The Good Old Days starring Anton Du Beke and Lionel Blair has been cancelled. The production, based on the BBC TV show of the same name, was due to play at UK venues…
Local authorities are more likely to fund the arts to boost economic development than for any other reason, a report published by the New Local Government Network and Arts Council England ha…
Alice Birch's first play for Clean Break, Little on the Inside, is running at the Edinburgh Fringe. She has now been commissioned to write a full-length piece for the company Little on the I…
Singer/songwriter Shaun Shears can count being the only severely disabled singer on iTunes among his long list of achievements. He is performing his latest show, The Man, the Music, the Panj…