Malcolm Sinclair is running for a third term as Equity president, against vice president Jean Rogers " who is aiming to become the first woman to lead the union in almost 70 years " and̷…
Burlesque performer Miss Polly Rae is to choreograph dancers who will appear at a new casino space at the Hippodrome in London, which organisers claim will be the UK's first to merge enterta…
The cast of the West End production of Blithe Spirit will mark the end of its run and bid farewell to its star – Angela Lansbury – with a special cabaret at the Cafe de…
West End long runners Billy Elliot the Musical and Stomp have moved to confirm their continuing runs following news that Cameron Mackintosh is to buy the venues they are staged in. Mackintos…
Kerry Ellis will join Joanna Ampil and Ria Jones in a UK tour called West End Women, which will feature music from shows including Wicked, Cats and Evita. The tour opens on November 17 at…
Cameron Mackintosh has bought the West End's Victoria Palace and Ambassadors theatres, and will re-name the latter after US musical theatre composer Stephen Sondheim. Mackintosh has purchase…
I can’t lie. Equity's annual representative conference isn't the most fun you can have in an Ibis Hotel. But you haven't lived, quite frankly, unless you've heard Equity member Rhubarb…
Miss Saigon's £4.5 million production budget has been recouped already, producer Cameron Mackintosh has revealed. Speaking at the opening night of the musical at the Prince Edward theatre…
Matthew Warchus is to succeed Kevin Spacey as artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre. Warchus, who has directed shows such as Ghost and Matilda in the West End, will take up the post in…
A campaign for the right of street performers to work more freely across the UK is to be launched. Members passed a motion at the conference which called on the union to "campaign for the…
Performers are calling on the BBC to increase casting opportunities on its drama productions, claiming work is "filtered through selected agents". Actors have argued that, as a publicly-fund…
Olivier award-winning performer David Thaxton is to join the cast of Les Miserables in June, playing Javert. Thaxton, who won an Olivier in 2011 for best actor in a musical for Passion at th…
Actor Ben Miles, currently starring in the West End productions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, will join the shows’ director Jeremy Herrin to discuss working on the plays as …
A new £150,000 annual prize for regional producing theatres has been launched, aimed at "regenerating and rekindling" theatre outside London. The annual prize, worth £750,000 over the …
Maureen Lipman ad Harry Shearer are to appear in the West End transfer of Park Theatre's Daytona next month. Lipman and Shearer appeared in the play, written by Oliver Cotton, when it ran or…
1984, the Headlong, Nottingham Playhouse and Almeida Theatre co-production, has extended its run at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End by five weeks. The adaptation of George Orwell's boo…
Corrine Priest, who is currently studying at the London School of Music Theatre, has been named 2014's performer of the year by the Stephen Sondheim Society. The society's Student Performer …
Andrew Lloyd Webber's wealth has increased by £20 million over the last year, with the composer ranking 162 in The Sunday Times' Rich List. Webber is now worth £640 million, according …
Olivia Colman has picked up her third BAFTA award, this time for her performance in ITV's crime drama Broadchurch. Broadchurch was one of the night's big winners, also taking home the award …
Charlotte Wakefield is to joint the cast of new musical Picture Perfect. Wakefield replaces the previously announced Lucie Jones in the show, which plays at the St James Theatre on May 31 an…
Louise Dearman and Caroline O'Connor are to star in Sinatra " the Main Event, a recreation of Frank Sinatra's 1974 concert at Madison Square Garden in New York. Dearman, whose credits includ…
John Gordon Sinclair and James Lance are to take over as Jeeves and Wooster in the West End production of Perfect Nonsense. They replace Robert Webb and Mark Heap from June 30 and will also&…
From Here to Eternity, the West End musical by Tim Rice and Stuart Brayson, is to be screened in more than 250 cinemas around the UK and Ireland. The show ran at the Shaftesbury Theatre̷…
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice playwright Jim Cartwright will premiere his new play " The Ancient Secret of Youth and the Five Tibetans " at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton next year. The&#…
Elaine Paige's BBC Radio 2 musical theatre programme now has an average 2.3 million listeners each week, with the broadcaster claiming the figure is a record for the show. Elaine Paige on Su…