A rare manuscript for a stage production of Dracula written by Bram Stoker himself is to go on display at the British Library. Although the manuscript for Stoker's novel is not believed to e…
Norwich Theatre Royal has announced plans for a £3 million expansion, which will see the creation of a brand new building aimed at increasing education opportunities for young people in t…
Sheffield Theatres' production of the musical Anything Goes will tour the UK from January. The tour will follow a run at the Crucible in Sheffield this November, and will begin at the New Wi…
Hadley Fraser and Caroline Sheen are to star in a new musical penned by Stuart Matthew Price and Timothy Knapman. The show, called Before After, is described as a romantic musical and will b…
Jamie Lloyd has stepped down as director of the forthcoming musical of Back to the Future. Lloyd confirmed to The Stage that he had left the production, but said the process had been "amicab…
Adrian Edmondson, Miles Jupp, Neil Morrissey and Robert Webb are to star in the West End transfer of Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Neville's Island. The play, by Tim Firth, was…
Writers need to grow up. Not my words, but those of a well-known screenwriter called Bryan Elsley, who you may know for co-creating Skins (itself about teenagers, growing up). According to E…
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have won Emmy awards for their acting in the television series Sherlock. In total, the series won seven Emmy awards " including four prizes for creati…
Magician Dynamo has claimed stage magic shows need 'reinventing', and has revealed plans to move into the live arena sector following the end of his television series. Dynamo's series …
Playwright Frank McGuinness is penning a factual drama for BBC1 about the 2005 bombings in London. Called A Song for Jenny, it stars Emily Watson and explores a woman's response to her daugh…
Skins co-creator Bryan Elsley has urged writers to be "more grown up" in their dealings with producers of their shows, claiming too many are behaving like children in the decision-making pro…
High profile actors such as Maggie Gyllenhaal are turning to TV for work over films, because of the opportunities television offers them to "immerse" themselves in a character over multiple …
Ashley Jensen is to star in a new family drama on Sky based on M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin series of books. Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death is a 120 minute drama that…
Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham has blamed a "collective failure" in the industry for the lack of diversity on UK television. The C4 boss delivered the MacTaggart Lecture at this yea…
BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore has claimed that writers are the key to boosting the representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic people on television. At this year's Edinburgh Interna…
James Graham, who penned the play This House for the National Theatre, is creating an original drama for Channel 4 about Nick Clegg called Coalition. The drama will chart Clegg's "rise from …
BBC4 channel editor Cassian Harrison has defended the broadcaster's screening of niche arts content watched by smaller audiences, claiming the Corporation has a duty to address "more narrow …
Judi Dench is to join Benedict Cumberbatch, Sally Hawkins and Keeley Hawes in BBC2's next Shakespeare adaptations, which form part of of its Hollow Crown series. The three filmed adaptations…
British television dramas are beating films to become the place where the most "interesting and complex work is happening", the BBC's director of television has claimed. Speaking at this yea…
Stephen Daldry, Lenny Henry, Rupert Goold, Daniel Craig, Russell T Davies and David Harewood are among the signatories of a letter calling on leading broadcasters to ring-fence money specifi…
Plans for a DVD recording of the live West End production of The Bodyguard have been shelved, after union Equity blocked the proposal based on the money performers were being offered. The mo…
Producer David Johnson has launched a stinging attack on the charges he claims Ambassador Theatre Group demands from performers, producers and theatregoers, after an ATG employee requested c…
If, like me, you don't have better things to do, you might have found yourself surfing the channels last Friday night in the hope of finding something vaguely entertaining to watch. Having f…
Efforts to find Israeli theatre company Incubator a new space to perform in following protests outside its original venue at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe have been abandoned, result…
A series of high-profile suicides among actors has prompted the launch of a new initiative aimed at raising the awareness of stress and mental wellbeing in the entertainment sector. Arts and…