Edward Hall, artistic director of all-male theatre company Propeller, has warned that the venue's future is at risk following Arts Council England's 100% cut to its funding. The company curr…
Despite the companies facing reductions, many organisations have joined the national portfolio funded by Arts Council England for the first time. New NPOs are listed below, with their total …
Red Ladder Theatre Company has become one of the high-profile casualties in the latest round of funding from Arts Council England. Currently it receives around £160,000 annually. From 201…
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds currently receives £120,000 each year as a national portfolio organisation. However, from 2015 it will stop being an NPO, with its arts council funding reduc…
In his first day as artistic director at the Orange Tree Theatre in west London, Paul Miller is dealing with a 100% cut to the venue's funding from Arts Council England. In 2014/15, it recei…
Red Ladder Theatre Company, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and the Orange Tree Theatre are among the high profile casualties of Arts Council England's latest round of national portfolio fundi…
West London fringe venue the Bush Theatre has revealed increased turnover of £2.56 million in 2013/14, a year that also saw 50% of its main stage shows written by people from a black, Asi…
Broadcasters are under pressure to introduce quotas aimed at increasing diversity on screen, as part of a major campaign backed by actors, writers and directors, including Meera Syal, Stephe…
Imaginate, the Scottish organisation which promotes theatre for young people, has announced two new commissions for 2015. The commissions are funded by the Scottish Government’s Edinbu…
Leading BBC dramas such as The Fall are failing to cast actors from the areas in which they are set, with parts for local actors reduced to a "cough and a spit", Equity has claimed….
Watford Palace Theare's autumn season will include two world premieres, including a new play from Goodnight Sweetheart and Birds of a Feather creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Called…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats is to return to the West End following a 12-year absence, with a run from December at the London Palladium. Cats is directed by Trevor Nunn, with Gillian Lynne …
Brendan O'Carroll thinks critics are irrelevant. In case you don't know who he is, O'Carroll is the man who dresses up as Mrs Brown in the BBC comedy Mrs Brown's Boys " all in the…
Hampstead Theatre's production of The Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon is to transfer to the West End. It will open at the Harold Pinter Theatre on October 4, with press night on October 28. Th…
Sam Walters, the UK's longest serving artistic director, has criticised politicians' "constant disparagement of white, middle-class" theatregoers, arguing venues would be "much the emptier" …
Nikolai Foster is to become the new artistic director at Curve in Leicester, and plans to turn the venue into the home of new musical theatre writing in the UK. Foster, whose credits include…
Russell Grant is to star in the UK fringe premiere of Thoroughly Modern Millie this October. He will appear in the musical at Theatro Technis in north London from October 1 to 29. Its press&…
Producers of the UK tour of Fame have blamed "World Cup fever" for poor ticket sales, which has resulted in the show's run ending three months earlier than planned. Fame opened in February a…
Caro Newling, co-founder of independent production company Neal Street Productions, has been named as the Society of London Theatre's new president. She replaces Mark Rubinstein, who has led…
West London fringe theatre the Print Room is to relocate to former playhouse the Coronet in Notting Hill, in a move the company says secures its long-term future and will enable it to expand…
Producers of Hobson’s Choice at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre have released a time-lapse video showing how the show’s set was constructed, from the moment the previous pro…
A 100-seat theatre that will be both a producing and receiving house is to launch in west London, opening in September with the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd. The Twickenham Theatre …
Students from 15 drama schools have been awarded a total of almost £53,000 from bursaries presented by the Society of London Theatre, which are aimed at helping the aspiring performers co…
Investigations into the Apollo Theatre ceiling collapse could take another 18 months to complete, it has been revealed. Six months since the incident, which saw part of the venue's ceiling c…
Gemma Arterton, star of the forthcoming Made in Dagenham musical, has admitted she is worried about opening the show in the West End following a spate of early closures among high-profile pr…