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A Taste of Honey playwright Shelagh Delaney is to be celebrated with an annual day named in her honour. Shelagh Delaney Day will take place on November 25 in Salford, where she was born, wit…
David Bedella is to star as Sweeney in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at new venue Twickenham Theatre from September. Bedella, who won an Olivier award in 2004 for Jerry Springer the Opera,…
Ian McKellen has claimed actors are having to turn down roles because of the poor pay they are offered, and has called for a living wage to be implemented for performers. McKellen said that …
Screenwriters Andrew Davies and Lucy Gannon are to judge the second Wales Drama Award, a £10,000 prize for writers aimed at finding new talent for theatre and television. The biennial awa…
Comedian Kev Orkian is to lead the cast of David Baddiel's musical The Infidel. Based on the film of the same name, the musical will open at Theatre Royal Stratford East in October. It will&…
Bonnie Langford, Joe Pasquale and Todd Carty are to star in a UK tour of the Monty Python musical Spamalot. The musical will tour from January 15, 2015, when it opens at the Manchester Opera…
The Shubert Organization, Broadway's largest theatre owner with 17 houses, is poised to become a major player in the commercial Off-Broadway world. According to a report in the New York Time…
Former Southampton Football Club players Matthew Le Tissier and Francis Benali will appear in Nuffield Theatre's production of The Saints. The pair are making their acting debuts in the show…
Ghost Stories, written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, has extended its run at the Arts Theatre in London until January next year. The show had been booking until August, but is now running …
Chichester Festival Theatre has reopened following a £22 million redevelopment project, which has seen the venue benefit from larger foyer areas, a refurbished auditorium and improved acc…
Productions from the Edinburgh fringe " including a one-man show from Steven Berkoff " are to be broadcast live to Odeon cinemas. The cinema chain has teamed up with online arts service Hibr…
According to Maggie Gyllenhall, the UK is the place to live if you want to act. In a recent interview with The Stage, she said: If you're an actor and you speak English you should…
West End director Marianne Elliott has claimed 'terrible' levels of pay are preventing women with children from pursuing careers in directing. Elliott, who is behind War Horse and The Curiou…
Students from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background made up around one in eight of those who enrolled on acting courses at drama schools around the UK last year, new data has revealed…
A new trailer for Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Miss Saigon has been released. Watch it in full below. The Boublil and Schonberg show is currently playing at the Prince Edward The…
The BBC has vowed to increase the number of disabled people featured on screen fourfold by 2017, as part of a major new plan unveiled by the Corporation today. Director general Tony Hall sai…
West End productions Love Never Dies, The Lion King and Les Miserables are among shows that have provided the inspiration for an art exhibition opening in London next month. Called TheatreAr…
Re-elected Equity president Malcolm Sinclair has vowed to tackle low and unpaid work in the sector over the next two years, claiming that the issue is now as bad as it was in the 1960s…
The musical of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho will make its American debut in February 2015 at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. It received its world premiere at the Almeida Theatre…
Cast members from the West End productions of Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera will take to the football pitch next month, for the third Les Mis V Phantom charity match. The game&…
The West End production of Skylight has recouped its capitalization costs in its fifth week since opening. According to the show's producers " who have not disclosed what the costs were " th…
Kerry Ellis is to reprise the role of Elphaba in the West End production of Wicked from August. The performer was the first British Elphaba in the London production, when she replaced Idina …
US performers Billy Harrigan Tighe and A J Holmes are to join the cast of The Book of Mormon in the West End, replacing Gavin Creel and Jared Gertner. Creel and Gertner have played ElderR…
Further casting has been announced for the UK tour of Jersey Boys, starring Tim Driesen as Frankie Valli. Joining Driesen will be Stephen Webb as Tommy DeVito, Sam Ferriday as Bob Gaudio and…
Theatres and arts organisations currently funded as part of Arts Council England's national portfolio now raise more than half of their income from ticket sales, educational work and caterin…
