Interviews: Lee Latchford-Evans: pop singer and actor
Lee Latchford-Evans is best-known as one fifth of pop group Steps, but is treading the boards for the first time in the UK tour of All Creatures Great and Small, a stage adaptation of the…
Lee Latchford-Evans is best-known as one fifth of pop group Steps, but is treading the boards for the first time in the UK tour of All Creatures Great and Small, a stage adaptation of the…
War Horse is to stage a relaxed performance at the New London Theatre, in association with the National Autistic Society. The performance, designed for people with autism, sensory or communi…
Ambassador Theatre Group chief executive Howard Panter has said that most West End theatres are "not fit for purpose" and should be replaced. Speaking at the International Theatre Engineerin…
The winners have been announced for the 2014 National Stage Management Awards, sponsored by The Stage and held for the first time as a joint ceremony with ABTT Theatre Awards. Presented by O…
Birmingham will host the World Festival of Theatre for Young Audiences in 2016, the first time the festival will have been held in the UK. The International Association of Theatre for Childr…
Ambassador Theatre Group has announced the creation of two new business appointments as part of the group's international expansion. Julia Potts will return to ATG after a three-year absence…
Sam Shepard's True West will open the Tricycle Theatre's new season, its artistic director Indhu Rubasingham announced today. Directed by Philip Breen, the production originated at Glasgow's…
Deaf actor Nadia Nadarajah is fluent in eight languages " five sign languages and three written. She performs regularly with Deafinitely Theatre company, with whom she is currently playing t…
Ronan Keating is to join the West End cast of Once from November, to play the leading role of Guy. Keating, who launched his career in 90s boy band Boyzone, will make his West End…
Arts Council England has announced that the first national portfolio organisations to be funded wholly through Lottery money will be those focusing on touring or working with children and yo…
The Royal Opera House production of The Wind of the Willows will return to London's West End this Christmas. Director and choreographer Will Tuckett's production will play an eight-week seas…
English National Opera, the National Theatre and the Barbican are partnering on a project that will see the first ever "data scientist in residence" working across the three companies. The A…
National Youth Theatre artistic director Paul Roseby has called for more financial support from the commercial sector, as the NYT increases its bursary funds from £80,000 to £100,000 t…
A former cinema in Wellington, Shropshire, will be given a new lease of life as an arts centre after lying dormant for decades. The Clifton cinema, which closed in 1989 and was most recently…
Coca-Cola has been forced to cancel a flash mob that was planned to feature professional dancers after being challenged over its intention not to pay the performers involved. An advertisemen…
Purni Morell has announced the Unicorn Theatre's new season, her third as artistic director. The theatre has announced 14 productions which will be staged over the next year, including a new…
Actress and academic Naomi Paxton, who edited The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays, has become one of 10 people to be named BBC Next Generation Thinkers for 2014. The list, a collaborati…
Imelda Staunton has backed a campaign calling for the use of wild animals in circuses to be banned. The actress, along with veteran actor Roger Moore, has written to the Queen urging her to …
Alan Burkitt and Charlotte Gooch will return to the play the lead roles in Top Hat when it tours the UK later this year. Burkitt and Gooch, who starred in Irving Berlin’s musical when …
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is celebrating its history by launching a website telling the story of the venue through digitised archives of items such as programmes, posters, photographs a…
The Barbican is to open a new creative centre in Hackney Wick where theatre practitioners will be able to develop new work for performances at the London venue. Joining forces with workspace…
A re-telling of The Picture of Dorian Gray will form part of the National Youth Theatre's 2014 rep season, in which a company of 15 will perform three productions over 10 weeks in London's W…
Shobna Gulati and Joe McGann will star in a tour of John Godber's April in Paris. Godber will direct the production, which tours the UK this summer. It opens at Derby Theatre on June 27,R…
The Royal Ballet School has launched a new teachers' course, its first to offer a formally accredited qualification. Participants who complete the school's Diploma of Dance Teaching will be …
A code of ethics is to be developed to improve the treatment of performers during the casting process. Equity member Lubna Kerr put forward a motion proposing that the council work with prof…